Modules

• Year 1
  • Introduction to Year 1 and FunMed
  • Fundamentals of Medicine
  • Human Development 1
  • Cardiorespiratory 1
  • Metabolism 1
  • Locomotor 1
  • Brain and Behaviour 1
  • Medicine in Society 1
  • Inter-Professional Education 1
• Year 2
  • Introduction to Year 2 and Year Outcomes
  • Cardiorespiratory 2
  • Metabolism 2
  • Brain and Behaviour 2
  • Human Development 2
  • Human Sciences and Public Health 2
  • Locomotor 2
  • Medicine in Society 2
  • Extended Patient Contact 2
  • Moving and Handling Training
  • Year 2 Lifesaver Programme
• Year 3
  • Clinical Science and Professionalism (Weeks 1-3)
  • Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Haematology (CR3)
  • Gastroenterology and Cancer (MET3A)
  • Endocrinology and Renal Medicine (MET3B)
  • General Practice and Community Care
  • Public Health
• Year 4
  • Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Child Health
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry
  • Ophthalmology
  • HIV & Sexual Health
  • Musculoskeletal
  • Health Care of the Elderly
  • Dermatology
  • General Practice and Community Care
  • Ear, Nose and Throat
  • Global Health and Ethics
  • ALL CSP WEEKS
  • B&B Classroom Skills
• Year 5
  • Introduction to Year 5 and Year Outcomes
  • Teaching Week 1
  • Acute Medical Care (AMC)
  • Surgery, Anaesthetics and Perioperative Care (SAPOC)
  • Community Care
• Year GEP 1
  • Movement and Posture
  • Carriage of Oxygen
  • Human Sciences and Public Health
  • Digestion, Growth and Metabolism
  • Infection and Immunity
  • Brain and Behaviour
  • Consolidation and Integration
  • Human Development
  • Medicine in Society (GEP)
  • IPE Programme Week (inc. IP Days within Modules)

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Year 2 LOC2: Locomotor 2

• Dr Lesley Robson
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Index

• General Outcomes for the Musculoskeletal System
• General Outcomes for Dermatology
• Myalgia and Widespread Pain
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Osteoarthritis
• Trauma, Fractures and Surgical Management
• Musculoskeletal Infections and Malignancies
• Paediatric joint diseases
• Skin Infections
• Inflammatory Skin Disease
• Skin Cancer

• General Outcomes for the Musculoskeletal System
  • Medical knowledge: PHYSIOLOGY
    • Skeletal Muscle (Striated Muscle)
      1. Review the normal muscle anatomy and physiology
    • General Musculoskeletal Physiology
      1. Review the normal muscle anatomy and physiology
    • Joint Structure and Function
      1. To describe the normal anatomy of synovial joints including the composition of synovial fluid and how this changes in different disease states
      2. To describe the normal microanatomy of the articular cartilage and how this changes with normal ageing and in disease states
    • Synovial Fluid
      1. To describe the normal anatomy of synovial joints including the composition of synovial fluid and how this changes in different disease states
  • Medical knowledge: PATHOLOGY
    • General Pathology
      1. To describe the metabolism of uric acid and how it precipitates in the joints to cause gout
    • General
      1. To describe the pathophysiology of calcium salt precipitation in joints
      2. To describe the normal microanatomy of ligaments and how this changes in disease or injured states
      3. Understand common endocrine and metabolic muscle disorders
  • Medical knowledge: IMMUNOLOGY and INFLAMMATION
    • The Immune Response in Health
      1. To understand the basic immunology processes that affect the joint in disease
      2. To understand the basic inflammatory processes that affect the joint in disease
  • Medical knowledge: CLINICAL FEATURES of DISEASE
    • General Outcomes for Musculoskeletal Diseases
      1. Types of inflammatory joint diseases
  • Medical knowledge: THERAPEUTIC PRINCIPLES
    • Pain Relief
      1. Understand when and why NSAID would be used
  • Clinical skills: HISTORY and EXAMINATION
    • Musculoskeletal Examination
      1. Can identify, using the GALS (Gait, Arms, Legs Spine) screen, normality and regional abnormality of the musculoskeletal system
• General Outcomes for Dermatology
  • Medical knowledge: ANATOMY
    • Skin and Tissues
      1. Understand the structure and function of skin
      2. Revise the normal components of skin including the different skin cell types and appendages.
  • Medical knowledge: PHYSIOLOGY
    • Skin
      1. Be able to describe how the structure/function of skin provides an important contribution to natural defence against micro-organisms.
  • Medical knowledge: PATHOLOGY
    • Melanocytic Naevi
      1. Understand the origin of common benign skin tumours including melanocytic naevi (moles), seborrhoeic keratoses, viral warts, haemangioma and lipomas
  • Medical knowledge: MICROBIOLOGY and INFECTION
    • Sources of Infection and Routes of Transmission
      1. Understand the concept of normal skin microflora and of chronic carriage of micro-organisms, such as Staphylococcal aureus.
  • Medical knowledge: CLINICAL FEATURES of DISEASE
    • Skin Infections
      1. Be able to describe how the structure/function of skin provides an important contribution to natural defence against micro-organisms.
    • General Outcomes for Dermatological Diseases
      1. Understand the clinical significance of losing the skin barrier for health and disease
• Myalgia and Widespread Pain
  • Fibromyalgia
    1. Appreciate the clinical features of fibromyalgia
  • Polymyositis
    1. pathologies of inflammatory myopathies
  • General Outcomes
    1. To appreciate the therapies for muscle disorders
• Rheumatoid arthritis
  • General outcomes
    1. Rheumatoid arthritis, causes, pathology, symptoms and treatments
    2. To understand the pharmacology of the DMARDs for RA
    3. To understand the new biological for RA
• Osteoarthritis
  • Osteoarthritis General
    1. Knows the clinical features of osteoarthritis
    2. Be aware of the different types of Osteoarthritis and the known causes of these
    3. Understand the pattern of joints affected in Osteoarthritis and why
    4. Understand the process of degeneration of the cartilage that leads to Osteoarthritis
• Trauma, Fractures and Surgical Management
  • General Outcomes
    1. To understand the different types of joint replacement available and the advantages and disadvantages of each
    2. To understand the other orthopedic procedures that are available for joint and bone related problems
• Musculoskeletal Infections and Malignancies
  • Musculoskeletal Infections and Malignancies General
    1. Antimicrobial therapy
    2. Causative organisms leading to bone and joint sepsis
    3. Microbiological investigations
    4. Risk factors and pathogenesis of bone and joint infections
• Paediatric joint diseases
  • Paediatric joint diseases General
    1. To be aware of paediatric orthopaedic conditions and common treatment options
• Skin Infections
  • General
    1. Be familiar with common skin infections including impetigo, cellulitis, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, tinea and scabies.
    2. Know the different skin sites that may become infected and the different associated clinical features: epidermal, dermal, subcutaneous, appendigeal.
    3. Know the range of different organisms that cause infection in skin: bacteria, viruses, yeast/fungi, and parasites
• Inflammatory Skin Disease
  • General
    1. Appreciate the differences between Th1 and Th2 responses and the pathogenesis of allergic contact dermatitis.
• Skin Cancer
  • General Outcomes for Skin Cancer
    1. Appreciate the concepts of benign, dysplastic and malignant.
    2. Appreciate the pre-cancerous (dysplastic) nature of solar/actinic keratoses and Bowen’s disease.
    3. Understand the difference between melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers: their epidemiology, clinical manifestations and treatment

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