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Module Title
LH Clinical Core 4
School
School of Medical Sciences
Department
Birmingham Medical School
Module Code
01 36127
Module Lead
Dr Nicola Calthorpe
Level
Honours Level
Credits
110
Semester
Full Term
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Restrictions
Where the students are returning to the programme after a significant leave of absence they will be required to undertake the co-requisite Clinical Core Refresher Course Non-credit bearing module prior to undertaking the assessments.
Contact Hours
Lecture-100 hours
Work based learning-700 hours
Guided independent study-300 hours Total: 1100 hours
Exclusions
Description
This module builds on the general clinical experience gained during the Clinical Core 2 and 3 modules and introduces students to the more specialised areas of medicine and surgery (Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, A&E and ITU) in the MBChB programme. A main focus of the module is to ensure students are fully prepared to become 'New Doctors'. Teaching on campus will focus on the knowledge, skills and attributes required to work as a foundation doctor.
Students have three hospital placements– spread across each semester and there is a Head of Academy who oversees the provision of experience in each hospital.
A further week of Academic Activities prior to starting to Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Paediatrics allows for the following placements to be focused on clinical activity rather than classroom based work.
Students will also have a community-based medicine assistantship, with teaching both by GPs in the university and on placements.
The Hospital-based placements will be separate rotations in:
1) Paediatrics
2) Obstetrics and Gynaecology
3) Acutely Ill Patient. The acutely ill patient rotations will include experiences in several hospital areas including A&E, ITU, AMU.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students should be able to:
Professional values and behaviours
Apply ethical and professional principles to the care of patients in the CC4 clinical environments.
Demonstrate a continuing awareness of the importance of their personal physical and mental wellbeing and incorporate compassionate self-care into their personal and professional life
Demonstrate that they can practice safely, participate in and promote activity to improve the quality and safety of patient care and clinical outcomes in the CC4 clinical environments.
Demonstrate confidence in managing medical complexity and uncertainty in the CC4 clinical setting.
Recognise patients and carers in the CC4 clinical environments who are vulnerable and take appropriate action in response.
Perform effectively in multi-professional and multi-disciplinary teams across multiple care settings in the CC4 clinical environments.
Professional Skills
Demonstrate effective, open and honest communication with patients, their relatives, carers or other advocates, and with colleagues applying patient confidentially appropriately, including spoken, written and electronic methods in the CC4 clinical environments.
Demonstrate effective consultation skills with patients and their carers in the CC4 clinical environments
Demonstrate critical thinking skills to diagnose and manage clinical presentations safely in collaboration with patents and colleagues taking into account a holistic assessment of the patient and their needs, priorities and concerns as an individual in the CC4 clinical environments.
Demonstrate appropriate clinical judgements for patients nearing or at the end of life in the CC4 clinical environments, involving the patient, their relative, carers or other advocates and colleagues as appropriate.
Identify when a patient is deteriorating and demonstrate the provision of immediate care to adults, children and young people in medical and psychiatric emergencies in the CC4 clinical environments, seeking support from colleagues as necessary.
Prescribe medications safely, appropriately, effectively, economically, demonstrating an awareness of the common causes and consequences of prescribing errors in the CC4 clinical environments.
Demonstrate using information effectively and safely in a medical context in the CC4 clinical environments.
Professional Knowledge
Describe how patient care is delivered in the health service in the CC4 clinical environments.
Apply biomedical scientific principles, methods and knowledge to the patients in the CC4 clinical environments and integrate these into patient care.
Apply psychological principles for the identification, safe management and referral of patients with mental health conditions in the CC4 clinical environments.
Apply social science principles, methods and knowledge to medical practice and integrate these into patient care in the CC4 clinical environments.
Apply the principles, methods and knowledge of population health and the improvement of health and sustainable health care to patients met in the CC4 clinical environments.
Apply scientific method and approaches to medical research and integrate these with a range of course of information used to make decisions for the care of patients in the CC4 clinical environments.
The national Medical Licensing Assessment (MLA) overseen by the General medical Council (GMC) will form the assessment for this module. The requirements for passing will be determined by student performance in the MLA. This will consist of an applied knowledge test (AKT) (50%) and the Clinical and Professional Skills Assessment (CPSA) (50%)
As well an overall pass mark, a minimum number of CPSA stations must be passed.
Professional Behaviour In addition, students, as developing clinicians, are required to demonstrate the professional behaviours outlined under Learning Outcome 20.1 in all the clinical units in which they learn during the module. Formal assessments of professional behaviour will be completed in each clinical experience, but any behaviour considered inappropriate can be reported either through end of placement review forms, the concern form system or, in the case of more serious breaches, directly to the Student Support and Development Office. Various sanctions are open to the Fitness to Practice panel including delayed progress and withdrawal from the programme.
Reassessment:
Students who fail either the AKT or CPSA at first attempt, will be required to resit whichever element they have failed in the supplementary period. Students who cannot successfully complete both elements in the same academic year, eg due to accepted ECs/appeals, will need to retain clinical currency by repeating the module internally and taking both assessment formats the following academic year as sit or resit attempts.
