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 HD2: Human Development 2
- Dr Anne Hills
- a.hills@qmul.ac.uk
Teaching Material for this Module
Introduction
The course aims to ensure familiarity with the following aspects of human development:
- The factors that can cause problems with conception, fetal wellbeing, pregnancy and labour, and their mechanisms of action.
- The deviations from normal cognitive, language and emotional development of childhood and adolescence, and to identify children with developmental delay.
- The medical, legal and ethical aspects of caring for children, and the range of services on offer.
- The major causes of mortality and morbidity at different ages in childhood.
- Infectious diseases and malignancies in the male and female reproductive systems.
- Health issues throughout the life course.
Index
- General Outcomes for Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- General Outcomes for Child Health
- General Outcomes for Sexual Health & HIV
- Herniae
- Fertility and Infertility
- Pregnancy
- Labour and Delivery
- Puerperium and Lactation
- Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
- Therapeutics in O&G
- Neonatal Disorders - General
- Cardio-Vascular Disorders in Childhood
- Respiratory Disorders
- Psychiatric / Psychological Problems in Childhood
- Congenital and Genetic Abnormalities
- General Outcomes for Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Medical knowledge: ANATOMY (TD 8.1)
- Circulation of the Pelvis
- Bones, Muscles and Ligaments of the Pelvis
- Female Pelvis and Reproductive System
- Pelvic Viscera and Perineum
- Surface Anatomy of the Pelvis
- Clinical skills: SURGERY and ANAESTHETICS (TD 14 g)
- General Surgical Outcomes
- Anaesthesia: Local Anaesthetics
- Clinical skills: PRESCRIBING DRUGS SAFELY AND EFFECTIVELY (TD 17 a-h)
- Medical knowledge: ANATOMY (TD 8.1)
- General Outcomes for Child Health
- Medical knowledge: PATHOLOGY (TD 8.7)
- Medical knowledge: CLINICAL FEATURES of DISEASE (TD 8 b)
- General Outcomes for Childhood Diseases
- Medical knowledge: SOCIOLOGY (TD 10 a-e)
- Chronic Illness and Disability
- Medical knowledge: EPIDEMIOLOGY
- Mortality and Morbidity
- Infant and Childhood Death (inc. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)
- Clinical skills: HISTORY (TD 13 a-b)
- Examination of Children
- Clinical skills: FORMULATING A TREATMENT PLAN (TD 14 g)
- Perinatal and Childhood Death
- Management of Disorders in Children
- General Outcomes for Sexual Health & HIV
- Medical knowledge: PHYSIOLOGY (TD 8.2)
- Clinical skills: PRESCRIBING DRUGS SAFELY AND EFFECTIVELY (TD 17 a-h)
- Pharmacological Therapy - Sexual Health (General)
- Herniae
- General Outcomes for Hernia
- Fertility and Infertility
- General Outcomes for Fertility, Implantation and Infertililty
- Pregnancy
- Medical Disorders of Pregnancy
- Labour and Delivery
- General Outcomes for Labour and Delivery
- Complications of Labour and Delivery
- Discuss the complications of Stage 1 - failed induction, primary and secondary arrest, fetal distress
- Explain methods available to avoid perinatal loss
- Discuss the complications of Stage 2 - failure to progress, maternal and fetal distress, operative delivery and uterine rupture
- Discuss the complications of Stage 3: post-partum haemorrhage, uterine inversion, amniotic fluid embolism
- Discuss the pharmacology relevant to the complications of labour
- Stillbirth and Perinatal Loss
- Puerperium and Lactation
- Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
- General Outcomes for Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
- Therapeutics in O&G
- General outcomes for therapeutics in obstetrics
- Neonatal Disorders - General
- Premature Birth and Low Birthweight
- List the main problems associated with being born prematurely, with reference to its effect on organ development, particularly with regard to respiratory, brain and gastrointestinal problems.
- Discuss the potential nutritional consequences of being a low birth-weight baby, and ways to deal with them
- Discuss the psycho-social effects of a premature birth
- Premature Birth and Low Birthweight
- Cardio-Vascular Disorders in Childhood
- Respiratory Disorders
- General Outcomes for Childhood Respiratory Disorders
- Asthma in Childhood
- Psychiatric / Psychological Problems in Childhood
- Psychiatric / Psychological Problems in Childhood - General
- Behavioural Problems in Childhood - General
- Congenital and Genetic Abnormalities
- General Outcomes for Congenital and Genetic Abnormalities