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Year 1 Health and Normality
The ethos of years 1, 2 and 3 is to stimulate consideration of definitions and meanings of health and the factors that can influence this. Topics covered in Year 1 include:
Half the Y1 topics are delivered as tutorials led by GP tutors and half as interactive lectures. GP tutors hold their tutorials in the surgery, providing a novel setting for students, and allowing access to patients early in the undergraduate curriculum. As well as the home visiting parts of the courses, patients are brought to the surgery to assist with the teaching. It is important that this course aims to develop ‘clinical attitudes’ as well as clinical skills, and this mix of locations, tutors and patients optimises this.
The course also includes teaching in reflective practice and writing. This is assessed both formatively and summatively in Year 1 (10% of the degree assessment).
The Year 1 assessment also includes a modified essay question (MEQ) exam.
There is a prize in Year 1 of the Community Course.
Community Course 1
This prize was established by the Community Group in 1995. Originally it was funded by the six Community Departments and is now supported by the Division of Medical and Dental Education. It is awarded to the top student in Year 1 of the Community Course.
Years 2 and 3 Illness, Disease and Disability
Teaching explores the effects of disease on patients’ lives and those of their families and communities. Year 2 topics covered include:
Year 3 topics include:
Teaching is delivered to small groups of students by only GP tutors in their practices around Aberdeen. Visits to patients in their own homes and in nursing homes and tutorial teaching involving patients visiting the surgery allows early patient contact.
The Year 3 course also includes teaching in reflective practice and writing. This is assessed summatively.
Students are also assessed using a modified essay question (MEQ) exam in Year 2 and in Year 3.
There are three prizes in Years 2 and 3 of the Community Course.
Community Course 2
This prize was established by the Community Group in 1996. Originally it was funded by the six Community Departments and is now supported by the Division of Medical and Dental Education. It is awarded to the top student in Year 2 of the Community Course.
Community Course 3
This prize was established by the Community Group in 1997. Originally, it was funded by the six Community Departments and is now supported by the Division of Medical and Dental Education. It is awarded to the top student in Year 3 of the Community Course.
The Ross Taylor Prize
This prize is named after Dr Ross Taylor, a distinguished academic, general practitioner, and a former head of the Department of General Practice and Primary Care, who retired in 2005. The prize is funded from an endowment bestowed upon the University by the subscription of his friends and colleagues. It is awarded annually in Year 3 to the most distinguished overall student in the Community Course.
Phase III – The Community Attachment (compulsory) PIII co-ordinator Dr Fiona Garton (email f.garton@abdn.ac.uk)
Students spend 5 weeks in a general practice surgery in or around Aberdeen, Grampian, or the Fife area ( See individual practice information for more details .) or in and around the immediate vicinity of Inverness. The emphasis is on reinforcing the principles of medical knowledge and skills already gained through Years 1, 2 and 3 in the secondary care setting and considering their application in primary care. There is also a requirement to look at the wider aspects of primary care, including the contribution made by a range of other health care professionals.
The aims of the attachment are threefold:
By the end of the block students should be able to demonstrate knowledge of common illnesses presenting in primary care; appropriate communication skills and a reflective approach to learning.
The learning objectives of the course are in line with domains of “The Scottish Doctor” looking at:
Learning is mainly experiential with a three and a half days of tutorials split between days at the beginning and end of the attachment. The students are likely to see in the region of two hundred and fifty patient consultations over the five weeks and have to undertake several themselves. Consideration of student attitudes and professional development forms a significant part of the attachment and is reflected in the assessment process. The students are asessed by means of a presentation of a multi-disciplinary team case study of a patient with an enduring chronic illness, an online MCQ and by a joint tutor/student formative assessment process.
Phase III G.P. Community Block - Inverness
Inverness, with its growing population of 60,000, sits at the head of the Great Glen and enjoys its position as capital of and gateway to the Highlands.
There are usually 6-8 students attached to the G.P. block in the Northern area and beginning/end-of-block teaching is delivered either in the Post-graduate Centre or Under-Graduate Teaching Centre at Raigmore Hospital. (See Teaching Timetable)
The G.P. attachments are then either with town-based G.P.s in the Inverness area, or with practices within a commutable 40 mile radius of Inverness. Where this is the case, students are provided with accommodation, usually in B & Bs or community hospitals. Students attached to town practices stay at accommodation provided on the Raigmore site. (See individual practice information for more details.)
The block is co-ordinated by Dr. Sue Tracey. Contact either through the Highland Medical Education Centre, tel 01463-255073 or email sue.tracey@abdn.ac.uk
The teaching in the Highland practices is delivered in a friendly way, ensuring the student is made to feel welcome and part of the team and hopefully, adding to the enjoyment of the block as well as achieving specific aims and objectives.
There is one prize in Phase III; the Sheila M McLennan Prize
This prize was established in 1995 by a generous endowment from Dr William M McLennan, formerly a general practitioner in Fraserburgh, in memory of his wife Sheila M McLennan. It is awrded to the most distinguished student in the General Practice attachment in Phase III.
Phase IV - The Vocation Attachment (optional) PIV GP Leads Dr Karen Foster (Aberdeen) email k.foster@abdn.ac.uk and Dr Kim Miller (Inverness) email kim.d.miller@abdn.ac.uk.
After the first week of core teaching in Aberdeen students spend 7 weeks with a practice anywhere from Aberdeen city to Stornoway in the Western Isles, and from Shetland in the north to Stranraer in the south-west. This affords students the experience of working in urban or remote settings. During this course, the students from each year who choose a further placement in general practice develop medical knowledge, skills and attitudes by consulting on their own, visiting patients in their homes, undertaking student selected primary care based activities, completing a Log Diary and attending a day-release programme.
The aims of the attachment are the same as for Phase III but the student is expected to achieve them at a higher level of understanding. At the end of the attachment each student should be capable of the following:
Phase IV – The Vocation Attachment – Inverness.
There are usually 10 – 20 students attached to the G.P. block in the Northern area. The block is co-ordinated by Dr Kim Miller. Contact either through the Highland Medical Education Centre, tel 01463-255073 or email kim.d.miller@abdn.ac.uk
There is one prize in Phase IV; the Richardson Prize. This prize is named the Richardson Prize after Professor Ian M Richardson, who retired in 1984 and was the founder of the Department of General Practice in 1970. The prize is funded from an endowment bestowed upon the university by the subscription of his friends and colleagues. It is awarded to the best student in clinical General Practice.
Student Selected Components
A number of Student Selected Components can be chosen by students throughout their course. Modules offered by the Centre of Academic Primary Care have been commended for their innovation and quality.
Electives
An 8 week long elective project is also carried out in Phase IV. Each year a number of students choose a general practice-related topic, although they often spend their time at a community base distant from Aberdeen - for example, America or Africa, while being supervised by the section staff. Topics of recent projects supervised by staff members include: family planning, GP audit, management of infection and pre-hospital management of myocardial infarction. For a full listing of elective projects see: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mrc/moodle/course/view.php?id=53.
Elective Prizes
There are a number of prizes for elective projects (see http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mrc/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=1329 ) Students should be aware of the RCGP/SAPC Elective Prize, details of which can be found at http://www.rcgp.org.uk/news_and_events/prizes_and_awards/prizes_and_awards_details.aspx#rcgpsapc.
Bachelor of Science in Medical Science
The Department welcomes a limited number (up to 3 per year) of BSc Med Sci students to conduct research projects. We consider any projects within the Department’s Theme areas of Research. Students should contact CAPC office (direct extension 53972) to explore the possibilities and discuss project details.
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