Medicine in Practice 1

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Recognise the importance of effective communication with patients, (both verbal and non-verbal), identify some of the features of good communication, and demonstrate effective communication with patients
• Demonstrate an understanding of how patients’ behaviours and social context may influence their health
• Begin to take a fuller medical history, including asking about symptoms of locomotor, respiratory, and cardiovascular disease (at the same time as you are learning about these systems)
• Use training in first aid, community medical emergency scenarios and basic life support to be able to provide emergency care
• Explore the impact of a chronic health condition (dementia) on a patient, their family and carers to include the navigation of healthcare and social care systems
• Have an understanding of basic examination of the locomotor, respiratory, and cardiovascular systems
• Recognise and demonstrate in a clinical setting, behaviour which reflects the professional codes of confidentiality, consent, courtesy and respect for other students, staff and patients
• Understand what is meant by "whole person medicine" in a clinical context
• Recognise the importance of personal professionalism in yourself and healthcare professionals
• Obtain a detailed history of a patient's presenting problem
• Learn and work effectively within a multi-professional team. Understand and respect the roles and expertise of health and social care professionals in the context of working and learning as a multi-professional team
• Begin to understand the importance of reflective practice in your personal professional development.
• Recognise the importance of being able to, and demonstrate that you can, give and receive feedback in a constructive way

During the year you will spend one Thursday afternoon approximately every two weeks in a small group with a GP teacher who will give you feedback on your progress. During these sessions you will learn how to take a history of a patient’s presenting problem, using appropriate communication skills, and how to give and receive feedback constructively. Both real patients and role play are used. Later in the year there will be systems-based learning of history taking and examination skills.

Plenary sessions in the first semester will teach you some of the communication skills that you will be putting into practice throughout the year, and we hope for the rest of your careers. You will learn about the locomotor, respiratory, and cardiovascular systems with your GP teacher. This systems-based learning is timed to fit in with your theoretical learning of these systems.

Clinical Hospital Experience: you will usually have the opportunity to select an additional clinical experience in either maternity care at Princess Anne Hospital or attend the Emergency Department at Southampton General Hospital. This aims to help you understand the importance of team working and the multi-professional team, professionalism and to learn reflective skills via supporting tutorial work.

You will have learning resources, support and to organise community visits to a family living with dementia which will continue into your second year on the programme,

Teaching and learning methods

The module will be taught through a range of learning and teaching strategies which will include:

• Patient based learning
• Two interactive lectures
• Tutor led tutorials
• Guided self-study
• Role play
• Group work
• Portfolios

Reflective practice

Personal placement preparation and organisation

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

Faculty of Medicine Blackboard. Please see the Blackboard module page for current resources. and the full reading list for this module is available on the Library Online Reading List at http://soton.rl.talis.com/

Assessment strategy

For assessments with no percentage contribution recorded, students will be assessed on a pass/ fail basis

Two assessments (whole placement evaluation and history taking) will be used to assess performance. Both assessments need to be passed to complete the module and there is no compensation between these elements.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

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.