Year 2
Teaching in Year 1 and Year 2 are on both on a Thursday, but they are never on the same dates. This is so that GP tutors can teach both year groups if they wish to do a regular teaching session across the year. All dates for the current academic year can be found in our teaching brochure.
Primary Care placements form part of a course called Effective Consulting which explores clinical reasoning, clinical communication and clinical skills. Effective Consulting is integrated into student’s case-based learning cycles (these are fortnightly cycles covering Health and Wellbeing in Year 1, and systems and symptoms in Year 2).
In Years 1 and 2 students go to BNSSG and central Bath practices. A session is three hours long. Students should meet patients in surgery and at home, observe consultations, and practice gathering clinical information through history, examination and understanding investigations, relevant to the case and consulting skill they are studying. Students alternate their visits to primary care with visits to the hospital environment. You need to give feedback during the session and individually at the end of the last session. You can have a group of four to six students.
More about Year 2
In Year 2 there are a total of five or six sessions in a practice. In the Autumn students cover: Skin, Body Defence, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, and Anaemia, Blood & Clotting. In GP, students should learn about the clinical themes being taught from the patients they meet in practice. After Christmas, the cases cover specific symptoms; chest pain, breathlessness, abdominal symptoms, joint pain, urinary thirst and weight loss, headache and collapse. For this symptom-based teaching, GP tutors should invite two patients with conditions relevant to the symptom the students are covering and help students practice gathering clinical information through history, examination and investigation.
Year 2 GP teacher guide
Year 2 GP session guides
Year 2 protocols for clinical examination
- Abdominal protocol (PDF, 134kB)
- Cardiovascular protocol (PDF, 117kB)
- Clinical skills protocol addendum (PDF, 107kB)
- Cranial nerves protocol (PDF, 162kB)
- Examination of the ears and functional testing of hearing (PDF, 108kB)
- Eye examination and snellen chart protocol (PDF, 113kB)
- Lower limb protocol (PDF, 120kB)
- Respiratory protocol (PDF, 136kB)
- Upper limb protocol (PDF, 113kB)
- Vital signs protocol (PDF, 122kB)
Student concern
Find more information on Student Wellbeing.
Useful documents and links for Year 2 GP teachers
Effective Consulting Tutors
If you are interested in becoming an Effective Consulting tutor, please see our guide:
Effective Consulting 2024-25 recruitment information (PDF, 1,125kB)
Effective Consulting Tutor Payment FAQ's 2024-25 (PDF, 173kB)
Contacts
Year 2
Academic: Dr Jessica Buchan
Administrator: TBC