Clinical Medicine (20 credits)

Code	School	Level	Credits	Semesters
MEDS2033	Medical Education Centre	2	20	Full Year UK

Code: MEDS2033
School: Medical Education Centre
Level: 2
Credits: 20
Semesters: Full Year UK

Summary

This module contributes to further development of an understanding of the doctor as a professional. Students will be taught the basic knowledge, skills and attitudes required for the assessment and management of patients. Students will be introduced to the patient as a whole person. They will be asked to consider challenging ethical scenarios and will be taught how to communicate sensitively and empathetically with different patients in various scenarios. The module will provide students with some basic clinical skills (e.g. taking a patient history, assessing gastrointestinal function) and introduce them to theoretical and statistical approaches to understanding health. This is delivered by lectures, popular topics, directed reading, private study, workshops, practical classes and hospital and general practice clinical visits to both primary and secondary care.

Target Students

Year 2 students registered on the BMedSci (A100 and A10S) and BSc Medical Sciences (A104)

Classes

One 2-hour workshop each week for 2 weeks
One 2-hour seminar each week for 3 weeks
One 2-hour practicum each week for 5 weeks
Two 1-hour lectures each week for 15 weeks
One 4-hour field studies each week for 3 weeks

Lectures: 31 hours, Seminars: 6 hours, Practicals: 9 hours, Workshops: 4 hours, Visits: 12 hours. Self-directed learning 38 hours. Both assessment components must be passed to pass the module, there is no compensation between them.

Assessment

100% Inclass Exam 1 (Practical): The content contained within this module will be assessed in an OSCE examination - Exam length is approximately 45 minutes. This is an OSCE of 8 x 5min stations.
Inclass Exam 2 (Practical): Students must pass a minimum of 4 stations to pass the exam overall.

Assessed by end of spring semester

Educational Aims

The module is designed so that students can attain some of the outcomes specified by the GMC in Outcomes for Graduates (2018) in the areas of Professional values and behaviours; Professional skills; and Professional knowledge. These are detailed in the Module Learning Outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

The student will be able to meet areas within the GMC outcomes as follows. The full wording is found in Outcomes for Graduates (2018).

2a, 2d, 2e, 2g, 2i, 2j, 2l, 2p, 4, 5a, 5b, 5d, 8b, 10a, 11a, 13, 14a, 14b, 14g, 14h, 17c, 17d, 20a, 25d, 25i, 26g

Conveners

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Last updated 07/01/2025.