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.
Index
- General Outcomes for the Whole Person
- Medical knowledge: CANCER
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General
- 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
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General
- Medical knowledge: CANCER
