Student Selected Unit 4

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Make accurate observations of clinical phenomena and appropriate critical analysis of clinical data
• Apply theoretical frameworks of psychology to explain the varied response of individuals, groups and societies to disease
• Take responsibility for your own learning and your continuing professional development
• Demonstrate your ability to take charge of own educational needs
• Undertake consultations with patients as appropriate to your chosen speciality
• Detail the requirements for pursuing a career in your SSU Field
• Demonstrate during your attachment that you can work effectively within a multiprofessional team
• Demonstrate the value of a Learning Logbook by showing examples of how keeping a reflective log has assisted in planning your educational needs
• Demonstrate that you have made use of the educational opportunities open to you and carefully planned your interaction with the learning environment
• Have a detailed knowledge of the academic and clinical experience needed to achieve specialisation as a doctor working in your SSU specialty
• Apply findings from the literature to answer questions raised by specific clinical problems
• Explain psychological factors that contribute to illness, the course of the disease and success of treatment
• Communicate effectively with a range of individuals including your educational supervisor, other colleagues and patients as appropriate
• Undertake other aspects of patient care as appropriate to the setting, which may include care of patients in emergencies, carrying out practical procedures safely as listed in the outcomes for graduates; using information in a clinical context
• Contribute to safe, effective and economic prescribing of drugs if appropriate to the setting
• Describe and evaluate the diagnosis and management of patients in the speciality
• Explain and apply the basic principles of communicable disease control in hospital and community settings
• Discuss the principles and application of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of disease
• Assess how health behaviours and outcomes are affected by the diversity of the patient population

This is an essential, core component of the curriculum. Students will complete their SSU in a 3-week block of time according to the following conditions:

• All students except for those on the BM(EU) programme will conduct their SSU within the Wessex Region. Options for BM(EU) students will be available on Blackboard.
• SSUs will be one 3 week attachment
• SSUs will provide experience of the specialty chosen
• To meet the module learning objectives at least 2 weeks of the SSU must be spent in a GMC recognised specialty that allows direct patient access.

Students will be expected to work with specialists as well as training grades at all levels within the SSU specialty.

The module will be taught through a range of learning and teaching strategies which may include:

• Tutor led tutorials
• Practical sessions
• Guided self-study to include an expectation that the student will review the college and specialty society websites as well as the BMJ Careers sections on their specialty area to develop their 300 word pathways submission
• Problem solving scenarios
• Role play
• Group work
• Learning Log
• Study packs
• eLearning

Doctors work in shift patterns and rotas throughout much of their working lives and to prepare you for such working once you graduate, throughout your programme you will be expected to undertake placements in the evenings, at nights and at weekends. This will not be an onerous requirement and will be negotiated well in advance so that students with carers’ requirements will be able to ensure appropriate arrangements are in place for cover

Within this module there may be some core/compulsory activities that will take place in the evenings, nights or weekends therefore students will commitments that will be affected by these should be pro-active in securing details of these activities well in advance of the start of the module. In addition, many non core learning opportunities will be available during these times and students are encouraged to take advantage of them

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.