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| Unit name |
Community Orientated Medical Practice 2 |
| Unit code |
MEDI34120 |
| Credit points |
0 |
| Level of study |
H/6
|
| Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52)
|
| Unit director |
Dr. Wensley |
| Open unit status |
Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None
|
| Co-requisites |
None
|
| School/department |
Bristol Medical School |
| Faculty |
Faculty of Health Sciences |
Description including Unit Aims
Community Orientated Medical Practice 2 combines teaching and learning in Primary Care, Elderly Medicine and Dermatology as part of the 4th year of the undergraduate medical programme.
The common learning threads running through this unit include:
- Acute and chronic disease management
- Patient self-management
- Disease prevention
- Primary and secondary care interface working
- Team work and inter-professional learning
- Record-keeping
The vertical themes of communication skills, whole person care, therapeutics, disability and evidence-based medicine are also represented.
Aims:
PRIMARY CARE
By the end of the unit you should be able to:
- Describe the role of the GP and the other members of the primary health care team
- Appraise the different systems providing open access health care in the UK
- Conduct a complete consultation on any of the 16 core clinical problems listed in the table of learning outcomes
- Evaluate evidence and guidelines when offering treatment options to patients
- Help patients reduce their risk of developing chronic disease
- Describe methods by which the impact of disability on patients can be minimized
- Discuss how multiple chronic illnesses create complexity and conflicting management options
DERMATOLOGY
By the end of this unit you should be able to:
- Take a dermatological history and explore a patients concerns and expectations
- Examine the skin systemically (including palpation)
- Describe and record findings using accepted dermatological terms
- Recognise and appreciate the incidence and appropriate management of common skin disorders and skin cancers and be familiar with principles of topical therapy
- Interact sensitively with people with skin diseases
CARE OF THE ELDERLY
By the end of this unit you should be able to:
- Describe common health problems in old age and their drug and non-drug management
- In an older patient with complex physical and social problems who is hospitalised or residing in the community:
- Carry out a clinical assessment, construct working diagnoses
- Define appropriate investigations and management plans
- Name team composition, roles, processes and services meeting the specific patient and family needs
- Perform and interpret the functional assessments commonly used in older people
- Describe the processes of assessment and rehabilitation
- List the services available in the community to support older people with physical disability +/- cognitive impairment and carers in their homes and explain the range of residential options distinguishing between them in terms of the level of care provided and the broad criteria used in relation to patient needs.
Intended Learning Outcomes
- Describe the role of the GP and the other members of the primary health care team
- Appraise the different systems providing open access health care in the UK
- Conduct a complete consultation on any of the 16 core clinical problems listed.
- Help patients reduce their risk of developing chronic disease
- Describe methods by which the impact of disability on patients can be minimised
- Carry out a clinical assessment, construct working diagnoses
- Define appropriate investigations and management plans
- Name team composition,roles processes and services meeting the specific patient and family needs
- Perform and interpret the functional assessments commonly used in older people
- Describe the processes of assessment and rehabilitation
- list the services available in the community to support older people with physical disability cognitive impairmment and carers in their homes and explain the range of residential options distinguishing between them in terms of the level of care provided and the broad criteria used inrelation to patient needs
- Take a dermatological history and explore a patient's concerns and expectations
- Examine the skin systemically(incl palpation)
- Decribe and record findings using accepted dermatological terms
- Recognise and appreciate the incidence and appropriate management of common skin disorders and skin cancers and be familiar with principles of topical therapy
- Interact sensitively with people with skin disease
Teaching Information
Lectures
Small and large group work, tutorials, seminars
Clinical teaching in primary and secondary care.
Interprofessional learning with pharmacy undergraduates.
E-learning opportunities available through Blackboard
Assessment Information
- Best of 5 / MCQs
- EMQs
- OSCE / DOSCE
- Reflective account (in COMP2, some objectives are assessed in a written essay that may or may not be reflective in nature)
Reading and References
- Bristol University Primary Care Study Guide
- Bristol University Dermatology Lecture Notes
- Gawkrodger, DJ. Dermatology. (4th edition) Churchill Livingstone
- Bristol University Care of the Elderly Study Guide
