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Personal and Professional Development 2

When you'll study it
Whole Academic Year
CATS points
10
ECTS points
5
Level
Level 5
Module lead
Rebecca Bartlett
Academic year
2026-27
Module overview Aims and Objectives Syllabus Learning and Teaching Assessment
Module overview Aims and Objectives Syllabus Learning and Teaching Assessment

Module overview

The Personal and professional Development 2 (PPD2) module runs throughout year 2 and is the second of three related modules with PPD1 in year 1 and PPD3 in Final year. The personal and professional development highlighted in these modules is based upon the General Medical Council (GMC) Get to know good medical practice, 2024. https://www.gmc-uk.org/professional-standards/good-medical-practice-2024/get-to-know-good-medical-practice-2024. This includes ethical guidance and standards of practice in order to help students recognise the central responsibility of patient care and to demonstrate an understanding of all the elements of the behaviours expected of doctors in the NHS. PPD2 requires students to further consider, learn and demonstrate, their professional behaviours including self-organisation, and effective and timely communication with their peers, healthcare colleagues, external families/ patients and all staff. This module incorporates two types of clinical placement: •Time for Dementia placement visits and follow up. This is continued where possible with the same family from year 1 to gain a longitudinal appreciation of the impact of dementia on a person and family living with dementia. •two full shifts working as a Healthcare Support Workers (HCSW) as part of a hospital nursing team to gain experience of interacting with patients and of multidisciplinary team-working. (Some students with similar significant evidenced prior experience in acute NHS environments may be offered the opportunity to co-facilitate and share in reflective tutorials with their peers). Details of these placements will be provided further on Blackboard Whilst PPD2 provides invaluable clinical and organisational context to help students develop their professional behaviours and reflections, the module follows on from the areas started in PPD1 and learning experiences from all year 1 & 2 modules. In year 2 students should consider how particularly but not exclusively how their learning in Clinical Practice 2 and Medical Humanities dovetails.