Student Selected Units 1 and 2

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate an awareness of how health behaviours are affected by the diversity of the patient population
• Identify features of effective academic poster design
• Critically evaluate representations of health and medicine in the wider cultural environment
• Gather relevant information and present it clearly and appropriately, verbally or in writing
• Demonstrate knowledge of a local health issue
• Work effectively in a team
• Work effectively in collaboration or independently
• Develop a critical understanding of how health, illness and disability are experienced in the community
• Participate in a creative process and identify its effect on personal and professional development
• Identify the social determinants of health and health inequalities
• Recognise the rights and the equal value of all people
• Produce an academic poster which includes an interactive component and logic model
• Create a piece of drama, writing, art work, music, a resource or presentation
• Communicate effectively and negotiate with peers
• Determine how the arts and humanities may enable you to develop self-knowledge and support well-being
• Access public health information sources and use the information in relation to health improvement
• Critically engage with public health data, policy and practice
• Adopt an approach to medicine that is constantly questioning and reflective
• Explore material and techniques from the arts and humanities and assess their effectiveness
• Participate in peer review and give and receive peer feedback
• Manage uncertainty in an unfamiliar learning environment
• Demonstrate a willingness and ability to study health topics using the arts & humanities
• Practise reflection and write a reflective account
• Identify and analyse different perceptions and experiences of health and illness
• Demonstrate listening, observation, interpretive and presentation skills
• Take responsibility for your own learning and personal and professional development
• Demonstrate different ways of thinking about medicine and health
• Communicate and work effectively with teachers of other disciplines
• Demonstrate a wider perspective on health that includes the role of doctors in health improvement, addressing the social determinants of health and health inequalities

In the Health Improvement component, students work in groups to design a health improvement intervention for use with a particular target group in a healthcare setting such as a GP surgery or hospital, or a community setting such as a school or charity. Students choose a local health topic; select a target group and setting; research the background and evidence for the topic; identify the issues involved; create ways of intervening that will address the issues and produce an academic poster that demonstrates the work. Students also evaluate the intervention & reflect upon their performance and the team work.

In the Medical Humanities component, students explore an area of medicine through the humanities and produce a piece of creative work either independently or in small groups. Students can choose from art, music, film, theatre, creative writing, philosophy, history and global health. They also reflect upon the experience and document what they have learned that they can take with them into future professional practice.

In order to meet the learning outcomes, the syllabus will contain teaching in the following areas:

 Public Health

 Health Improvement

 Communication

 Team Working & Leadership

 Sociology

 Psychology

 Medical Humanities

The module will be taught through a range of learning and teaching strategies using face to face and online methods which will include:

 Lectures

 Seminars

 Tutor-led tutorials

 Workshops

 Self–directed learning

 Role-play

 Projects

 Group work

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.