Student Selected Units 1 and 2

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Recognise the rights and the equal value of all people
• Communicate effectively and negotiate with peers
• Practise reflection and write a reflective account
• Develop a critical understanding of how health, illness and disability are experienced in the community
• Explore material and techniques from the arts and humanities and assess their effectiveness
• Participate in a creative process and identify its effect on personal and professional development
• Work effectively in collaboration or independently
• Identify the social determinants of health and health inequalities
• Produce an academic poster which includes an interactive component and logic model
• Adopt an approach to medicine that is constantly questioning and reflective
• Demonstrate listening, observation, interpretive and presentation skills
• Demonstrate knowledge of a local health issue
• Demonstrate different ways of thinking about medicine and health
• Demonstrate a wider perspective on health that includes the role of doctors in health improvement, addressing the social determinants of health and health inequalities
• Determine how the arts and humanities may enable you to develop self-knowledge and support well-being
• Identify features of effective academic poster design
• Critically engage with public health data, policy and practice
• Gather relevant information and present it clearly and appropriately, verbally or in writing
• Communicate and work effectively with teachers of other disciplines
• Identify and analyse different perceptions and experiences of health and illness
• Manage uncertainty in an unfamiliar learning environment
• Work effectively in a team
• Critically evaluate representations of health and medicine in the wider cultural environment
• Take responsibility for your own learning and personal and professional development
• Demonstrate an awareness of how health behaviours are affected by the diversity of the patient population
• Create a piece of drama, writing, art work, music, a resource or presentation
• Access public health information sources and use the information in relation to health improvement
• Participate in peer review and give and receive peer feedback
• Demonstrate a willingness and ability to study health topics using the arts & humanities

In the Health Improvement component, students work in groups to design a health improvement intervention for use with a particular target group in a healthcare setting such as a GP surgery or hospital, or a community setting such as a school or charity. Students choose a local health topic; select a target group and setting; research the background and evidence for the topic; identify the issues involved; create ways of intervening that will address the issues and produce an academic poster that demonstrates the work. Students also evaluate the intervention & reflect upon their performance and the team work.

In the Medical Humanities component, students explore an area of medicine through the humanities and produce a piece of creative work either independently or in small groups. Students can choose from art, music, film, theatre, creative writing, philosophy, history and global health. They also reflect upon the experience and document what they have learned that they can take with them into future professional practice.

In order to meet the learning outcomes, the syllabus will contain teaching in the following areas:

Public Health

Health Improvement

Communication

Team Working & Leadership

Sociology

Psychology

Medical Humanities

The module will be taught through a range of learning and teaching strategies using face to face and online methods which will include:

Lectures

Seminars

Tutor-led tutorials

Workshops

Self–directed learning

Role-play

Projects

Group work

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.