Introduction to clinical skills element

Students only go to Bristol practices in year 2. In total, there are 6 sessions in
practice on a Thursday across the academic year. A session is 3 hours long.

In year 2, the students learn a different topic every fortnight through case based learning,
they have a clinical placement (alternating between primary and secondary care) in
each case based learning cycle.

In the Autumn students cover: Skin, Body defence,
Pharmacology & Therapeutics, and Anaemia, Blood & Clotting. The students should
meet patients relevant to the themes being taught. After Christmas, the cases cover
specific symptoms; low mood, chest pain, breathlessness, abdominal symptoms,
joint pain, urinary thirst and weight loss, headache and collapse. GP teachers need
to invite two patients with conditions relevant to the symptom the students are
studying and teach students how to take a history and examine a patient. You need
to give feedback during the session and individually at the end of the last session.
You can have a group of four or six students.

Useful links for year 2 GP Teachers

GP teacher handbook

• Year 2 GP Teachers Guidebook 2017-18 (PDF, 1,816kB)‌ 

Student handbooks

• ICS Handbook 2017-18 (PDF, 8,583kB)
• Consultation and Procedural Skills (CAPS) The CAPS log book can be downloaded from this link. This log book lists the skills expected by the GMC in a newly qualified doctor.

Student concern For more information on student wellbeing, see our Student Wellbeing page 

• Attendance Concern Form (Office document, 33kB)

Other useful information

• Year 2 Attendance and Payment form 2017-18 (PDF, 276kB)
• Year 2 and 3 workshop reports are here

Contacts

• Academic: Dr Barbara Laue
• Administrator: Kirsten Gill