Unit information: Community Orientated Medical Practice 1 in 2015/16

Unit name	Community Orientated Medical Practice 1
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

Description including Unit Aims

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.

Intended Learning Outcomes

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:

• Equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to be able to critically appraise research evidence, and to use that evidence to inform their practice
• Enable students to develop an understanding of the wider determinants of health, and the multidisciplinary nature, goals, and types of information used in public health practice, disease prevention, and infection control

Specific objectives are:

• Distinguish between primary and secondary and high risk and population prevention strategies and the challenges facing the evaluation of health promotion and screening programmes
• •Understand principles of infectious disease surveillance and public health impact of immunisation
• Describe magnitude and trends in UK socioeconomic inequalities and goals to combat global inequalities in health.

Teaching Information

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.

Assessment Information

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:

• Paper 1 will cover the learning outcomes from COMP1 and RCHN (ie neonatal and child health, reproductive health, evidence-based medicine and public health).
• Paper 2 will cover the learning outcomes from COMP2 and PsPC (primary care, medicine for older people, dermatology, psychiatry, peri-operative medicine and critical care)

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:

• A presentation in Reproductive Health & Care of the Newborn
• A presentation in Psychiatry
• A critical appraisal and application of evidence from three key papers relating to a clinical scenario (COMP1)

3) Review of the logbooks and portfolios in each unit.

Reading and References

Library link

https://www.ole.bris.ac.uk/webapps/cmsmain/webui/_xy-136348_5-t_hYyAB8mF