Module overview
Clinical Practice and PPD is designed to enable you to understand and experience the practice of medicine through a combination of observational, clinical placements and classroom based sessions.
The classroom based sessions will help you evaluate and reflect on your placement experiences.
All the information you will gain from the placements and taught sessions will provide much of the material needed for writing your portfolio. Further details will be provided on Blackboard.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a concern for the interests and dignity of patients and identify possible ethical issues in health care
- Identify and evaluate methods of effective communication in health care settings
- Reflect on experiences and link experiences to current literature
- [DRAFT] Communication to lay audience
- [DRAFT] Add new LO here related to placements
- Demonstrate understanding of the values and ethics of the health professions and assess how ethical challenges are addressed by health professionals
- Development independent working skills, team working and problem solving skills
- [DRAFT] Add new LO here related to clinical skills
- Demonstrate understanding of different roles and responsibilities of health professionals, and evaluate the rationale and issues of health professionals working together
Syllabus
The module is designed around 3 projects;
1. The roles of health care professionals
The relevance of sociology and psychology to the study of health and illness. Indicators of good health individually and nationally. Roles and training of different professionals and trends in health care. Medicine as a profession and challenges to the medical profession. Interprofessional working and effective team working and leadership.
2. Communication in health care
Modes and importance of effective communication in health care contexts. Doctor patient interactions and inter-health professional interactions. Patient adherence and health behaviours. Health promotion as a government strategy. The relationship between health promotion, prevention and education.
3: Ethical issues in health care
Codes of conduct, “duties of a doctor”. The principles of medical ethics. Patient confidentiality. Informed consent. Ethical issues in relation to end of life decisions. Social and ethical implications of “The New Genetics”.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
The module will be taught through a range of learning and teaching strategies which will include:
• Lectures • Tutor led tutorials • Guided self-study • Problem solving • Oral presentations • Role play • Projects • Group work • portfolios • eLearning • Patient based learning • Healthcare placements • Reflective writing • Peer feedback and self-evaluation
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Completion of assessment task | 95 |
| Follow-up work | 85 |
| Placement | 40 |
| Tutorial | 11 |
| Wider reading or practice | 42 |
| Lecture | 11 |
| Preparation for scheduled sessions | 84 |
| Total study time | 368 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Reading list. The full reading list for this module is available on the Library Online Reading List at https://soton.rl.talis.com/
Assessment
Assessment strategy
The assessment for this module is 100% coursework and comprises two portfolios (one to be completed in semester 1 and one in semester 2). Both portfolios must be passed (pass mark is 40%). There can be no compensation between portfolios but there can be compensation within the components of each portfolio. Students are normally required to only resubmit the failed components of the portfolio in a supplementary assessment. Written feedback is given on portfolios via e-Assignment.Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |