Modules
- Year 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
- Cancer Week
- Moving and Handling Training
- Year 2 Lifesaver Programme
- Clinical Communication Skills
- Medicine in Society 2
- Extended Patient Contact
- Student Selected Component (SSC)
- Year 3
- Introduction to Year 3 and Year Outcomes
- Clinical Science and Professionalism (Weeks 1-3)
- Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Haematology (CR3)
- Gastroenterology and Cancer (MET3A)
- Public Health
- Endocrinology and Renal Medicine (MET3B)
- General Practice and Community Care
- Student Selected Component (SSC)
- Clinical and Communication Skills
- Year 4
- Introduction and Year 4 Outcomes
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Child Health
- HIV & Sexual Health
- Musculoskeletal
- Health Care of the Elderly
- Neuroscience
- Dermatology
- General Practice and Community Care
- Psychiatry
- Ear, Nose and Throat
- Global Health and Ethics
- Ophthalmology
- Clinical & Communication Skills
- Student Selected Component (SSC)
- Year 5
- Introduction to Year 5 and Year Outcomes
- Teaching Week 1
- Teaching Week 2
- Anaesthesia & ITU (AN & ITU)
- Breaking Bad News
- Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
- Community Care
- Doctors as Teachers and Educators (DATE)
- Emergency Medicine (EMERG MED)
- General (Internal) Medicine (G(I)M)
- Immediate Life Support (ILS)
- Student Assistantship
- Simulation
- Surgery
- Student Selected Component (SSC)
- Year GEP 1
Year 2 : Cancer Week
Introduction
The aim of the Cancer Module is to build on your knowledge of cancer and to give you further understanding of cancer biology, cancer diagnostics and cancer therapy. The module develops themes relating to cancer and related areas.
Sessions
- Lecture: Introduction to the Cancer Patient Pathway
- Appreciate the implications of living with and beyond cancer
- Understand the part research plays in the cancer patient pathway
- Appreciate the role of the immune system in cancer
- Understand the steps in the cancer patient pathway
- Understand the concept of ‘red flags’ in cancer diagnosis and the cancer referral process
- Revise the principles of cancer biology
- Understand the general principles of cancer treatment: surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted and biological therapy.
- Describe the purpose of the MDT and the role of the individuals within it
- Develop insight into the patient experience of cancer
- Overall aims
- Revise the principles of cancer biology
- Understand the steps in the cancer patient pathway
- Understand the concept of red flags in cancer diagnosis and the cancer referral process
- Describe the purpose of the MDT and the role of the individuals within it
- Understand the general principles of cancer treatment: surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted and biological therapy.
- Appreciate the role of the immune system in cancer
- Understand the part research plays in the cancer patient pathway
- Appreciate the implications of living with and beyond cancer
- Develop insight into the patient experience of cancer
- Lecture: Revision of Cancer Biology
- Lecture: The GP- Presentation of Cancer in Primary Care
- Lecture: The Multi-Disciplinary Team
- Acknowledge some of the problems associated with MDT working
- Understand the role of each professional within the MDT in the cancer patient pathway
- Describe the ‘process’ of MDT working in an example speciality
- Describe the multiple functions of the MDT
- Define a multi-disciplinary team
- Understand the role of the MDT in cancer management
- Describe the purpose of the MDT and the role of the individuals within it
- Lecture: Surgery
- Lecture: Chemotherapy
- Personalised and Stratified Medicine
- Lecture: Targeted Therapy
- To be able to describe the mechanisms of resistance to receptor tyrosine kinase antagonists (monoclonal antibodies and small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors)
- Describe the mechanisms of action of small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
- Understand the differences in naked therapeutic antibodies and antibody drug conjugates.
- Describe the role of monoclonal antibodies in targeted therapies and using named examples the mechanism of action.
- Gain an understanding of the aim of targeted therapy and to identify cancer targets.
- Lecture: The Role of the Immune System in Cancer
- Hematological Malignancies: A Historical Perspective
- Lecture: The Role of Research in the Cancer Patient Pathway
- Lecture: Performing Medicine- Patient's Perspective
- Lecture: Palliative Care
- Lecture: Clinical Psychology
- Cancer Case Studies
- Decision Making in Biology and Medical Advice
- Receptor Tyrosine Kinases and Cancer
- Cancer Cell Death
- Cancer Stem Cells
- Cancer Proteomics
- Hallmarks of Cancer
- Haematological Cancers
- Basic Principles of Cancer Therapy
- Genome and Chromosome Abnormalities in Cancer
- Cancer Therapy and Immunotherapy of Cancer
