Primary Medical Care and Long Term Conditions

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• To recognise symptoms and signs of common diseases seen in primary care
• Understand the use of time as a diagnostic tool
• Have gained understanding regarding the presentation and impact of some common long term conditions/ disabilities which are often managed in primary care
• Take a focused history in order to reach a differential diagnosis
• Develop insight into your learning needs in the professional workplace and recognise the need for support and guidance in managing challenging situations; and reflect on your own learning style and how it may need to be adapted to the clinical environment
• Show awareness of a wide variety of ways in which you learn in the workplace, often not defined by the curriculum, and which includes role models
• Interact with patients and colleagues whose cultural backgrounds, beliefs and values may differ from your own in a sensitive and non-judgmental manner
• Demonstrate an ability to reflect and use appropriate resources including IT to support your own learning and aid patients’ understanding
• Assess and recognise the severity of a clinical presentation and a need to immediate emergency care
• Demonstrate competency in the clinical skills as per the student portfolio requirements
• Demonstrate that you can establish a relationship with a patient, explore and acknowledge their concerns
• Take responsibility for your own learning and your continuing professional development
• Demonstrate respect for patients and colleagues
• Demonstrate awareness of professional responsibility both to patients and to members of the multi-professional team and to student colleagues and reflect on how poor performance or poor professional behaviour should be addressed
• Demonstrate understanding of the diversity and complexity of presentations in primary care and the factors that influence how patients present
• Understand the concept of the primary care team and have an awareness of the roles of its members
• Understand and have experience of the principles and methods of improvement including audit, and how to use the results of audit to improve practice
• Conduct an appropriate examination and communicate with the patient including patients and relatives of those who have a cognitive or sensory impairment.
• Show an understanding of the duties of confidentiality in your contact with colleagues and patients
• Explain the use of clinical investigations and their impact on the patient and health services
• Take a medication history, including details of any complementary or alternative therapies the patient is using, and begin to consider the role of medication on the presentation and management of patients

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.