Integration of Knowledge and Clinical Medicine 1

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Interpret literature, critically evaluate and analyse evidence and demonstrate synthesis of contextualized information and originality of thought.
• Critically appraise the evidence-basis of common medical practice relevant to the topics studied
• Apply scientific method and approaches to independent research
• Write coherently using appropriate terminology and referencing appropriately
• Integrate biomedical, psychological, social science and population health principles with the clinical skills of history taking, diagnosis and treatment and apply this knowledge and understanding to common medical practice relevant to the topics studied

TOPICS: Your learning will be structured around a series of clinical topic weeks, which will themselves be grouped around physiological systems. The order of clinical topic weeks has been designed to be mostly systems based whilst also allowing for an integrated and spiral curriculum.

CLINICAL CONTEXT: Weekly clinical topics are used to provide a framework for learning and to provide an example of the medical practice context to which the knowledge and understanding applies. Examples of the clinical topics for this module are provided below but are subject to change. The main physiological system areas that these topics apply to are provided with each clinical topic.

1.Start in Life

2.Congenital Disorders

3.Malignancies (Breast Cancer)

4.Metabolic Disorders (Obesity)

5.Metabolic Disorders (Diabetes)

6.Respiratory 1 (introduction)

7.Respiratory 2 (Infections)

8.Respiratory 3 (Failure)

9.Respiratory 4 (Malignancy)

10.Circulation (Hypertension)

11.Circulation (Peripheral Arterial Disease and Deep Vein Thrombosis)

12.Cardiac Function (Ischaemic Heart Disease)

13.Cardiac Function (Heart Failure)

14.Acute Kidney Injury

15.Chronic Kidney Disease

16.Anaemia

17.Gastrointestinal (Malabsorption)

18.Gastrointestinal (Hepatobiliary)

19.Gastrointestinal (Malignancies)

20.End of Life

21.The patient in Shock

22.Seriously Injured Patient

For each of these clinical topics detailed learning outcomes are provided to guide you in the biomedical, social, psychological, ethical, legal and population health knowledge and understanding that is applied to each topic. These are available along with resources to support the learning within the Blackboard module pages.

Learning in this module focusses on students being able to integrate learning from these outcomes and relate them to specific patient cases.

Teaching and learning methods

This module is a student-led learning module in which students are provided with detailed guidance on the curriculum content to learn. However, teaching is limited to graduate group sessions, sessions to support graduate group sessions, plenary sessions and Evidence in Practice.

• Graduate Group Sessions: Two graduate group sessions per clinical topic week provide a structured format and a facilitated session in which students can use group work to support their learning. The first session uses a trigger to introduce, contextualise and motivate learning from which students work together to identify and share prior knowledge, identify gaps in knowledge and concepts to develop for the rest of the week. Learning outcomes are provided weekly to support students to facilitate their learning in the appropriate direction during the week, but should be used by students alongside their own identified learning outcomes from the graduate group session. Students will work independently during the week to integrate learning from other modules. In the second graduate group session at the end of the week, students organise the session in such a way as to each teach each other key concepts and knowledge in allocated areas of the curriculum. It is expected that the group work will ensure that students will be able to teach topics based on the integrated learning they have done during the week, as well as to be able to give explanations of complex scientific subject matter in lay language.
• Sessions to support Graduate Group Sessions: Several sessions are provided during the year to firstly introduce and train students in the graduate group learning approach, and then to encourage them to reflect upon and enhance their graduate group learning skills including their team working skills.
• Plenary Sessions: The final session of each clinical topic week is a plenary session during which students can ask an expert in the field clarification on any of the learning from the week. The speaker is usually a clinician in the field and is able to provide reinforcement, understanding and help to clarify any misconceptions about how the knowledge and area from across the disciplines integrates and applies to real life medical practice.
• Evidence Based Medicine Sessions: Several sessions are provided during the year to introduce, train and formatively assess students’ skills in critical appraisal and evidence-based medicine.

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

Personal academic tutor. Students are provided with a personal academic tutor with whom they will be encouraged to reflect upon their learning and studies and can therefore give feedback on reflective skills.

Blackboard. Resources to support your learning will be provided on Blackboard. A full reading list for this module is available on the Library Online Reading List at http://soton.rl.talis.com/

Assessment strategy

Mapping of Learning outcomes to Summative Assessment:

1. Integrate biomedical, psychological, social science and population health principles with the clinical skills of history taking, diagnosis and treatment and apply this knowledge and understanding to common medical practice relevant to the topics studied: Patient Study

2. Apply scientific method and approaches to independent research: Patient Study

3. Critically appraise the evidence-basis of common medical practice relevant to the topics studied: Patient Study

4. Interpret literature, critically evaluate and analyse evidence, and demonstrate synthesis of contextualised information and originality of thought: Patient Study.

5. Write coherently using appropriate terminology and referencing appropriately: Patient Study

Formative

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

Evidence Based Medicine Assessment

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Students will receive written feedback for both their reports and presentations which will include a breakdown of their mark to include the mark for each criterion and written comments to support the marks and identify areas for improvement in future where possible. In addition any student failing or close to failing an assessment will be invited to an individual feedback session with a tutor. Students will also be provided with a box and whisker plot illustrating the spread of marks for the cohort for that assessment and any generic feedback possible about questions that were well answered and areas that were not so well answered.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Coursework

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: Yes
• Group Work: No

Graduate Group Assessment

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: students will receive details of their performance using a standard template assessment sheet which indicates how the student performed against each of the criteria. Students will be encouraged to self-assess and compare their assessment to that of the tutor. In most cases this will be fed back during an individual 121 meeting to provide an opportunity for discussion. Where this is not the case students who achieved an unsatisfactory score in any of the criteria will be offered the opportunity for an individual feedback session.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

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.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal