Newly qualified doctors need to be able to communicate with multiprofessional and multidisciplinary teams, including using written and electronic communications in a range of settings. Students on this module will learn about and reflect on written communication in clinical practice. They will then to produce their own communications for discharge and referral based on real clinical cases, submitting these for assessment and feedback.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students should be able to:
Produce written material about their hospital admission and discharge, sensitively and effectively for patients, their relatives, carers or other advocates considering holistically their needs.
Demonstrate an understanding and awareness of: a) Quality standards for written information between colleagues b) A range of tools, templates and resources that will support the preparation of high-quality written information c) Approaches to providing high-quality written feedback to colleagues.
Write, to an appropriate standard, written information for use by colleagues as part of handover and referrals that is safe, accurate and maintains continuity of care
Analyse and evaluate the quality of supplied written clinical communication
Write accurate and constructive feedback on the quality of written clinical information
Assessment
36125-01 : Written Professional Communication : Group Assessment - Coursework (100%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions
Assessment:
Students will submit a single piece of work containing examples of communications (100%)
Reassessment:
Students who do not pass on first attempt will meet with the Module leads for feedback and guidance on resubmission of the initial examples of communications between multiprofessional, multidisciplinary teams that they have written based on a real patient case, using their gold standard guidance. This will be marked against a standardised rubric. (100%)
