Unit name | Community Orientated Medical Practice 1 |
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Unit code | MEDI34110 |
Credit points | 0 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
Unit director | Professor. Saleem |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
Must be on the MB ChB Programme. |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Bristol Medical School |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
COMP1 is mainly devoted to Academy-based clinical attachments in Child Health but starts with central teaching covering Public Health and Evidence Based Medicine and an introduction to Child Health.
Child Health
The overall aim of this element is to:
Enable students to understand the growth, development and health of children and to introduce the principles and practice of modern paediatric medicine and surgery. By the end of the child health element students should be equipped with the knowledge about the health and diseases of children, clinical skills to apply this and attitudes relevant to their care.
Public Health and Evidence Based Medicine
The aims of these elements are to:
Specific objectives are:
Weeks 1 and 4 are Bristol-based lectures and tutorials, largely allocated to Public Health and
Evidence Based Medicine. There are also optional iSSC tutorials in Week 7, a half day of Evidence Based Medicine teaching in week 8 (week 7 in rotation 3) and a full day of Child Health teaching in week 9 (week 8 in rotation 3). In addition there are seven weeks of clinical attachments in Child Health, within Academies.
Summative Assessment – All Year 4 Units have:
1. An Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) with stations on neonatal health, child health, reproductive health, psychiatry, primary care, dermatology, medicine for older people, peri-operative medicine and critical care.
2. Two written papers, each consisting of 100 best-of-5 multiple choice questions:
Formative Assessment - During the course of the year each student will be given feedback to assist their learning.
Key vehicles for collecting and giving this feedback will include:
1) Performing two OSCE stations in each unit, run by the academies
2) Three internal students selected components:
3) Review of the logbooks and portfolios in each unit.
Library link
https://www.ole.bris.ac.uk/webapps/cmsmain/webui/_xy-136348_5-t_hYyAB8mF