Modules

• Year 1
  • Introduction to Year 1 and Year Outcomes
  • Fundamentals of Medicine
  • Cardiorespiratory 1
  • Metabolism 1
  • Locomotor 1
  • Brain and Behaviour 1
  • Human Development 1
  • Medicine in Society 1
  • Clinical Communication Skills
  • Student Selected Component (SSC)
• 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
  • Cancer Week
  • Movement and Posture
  • Carriage of Oxygen
  • Human Sciences and Public Health
  • Digestion, Growth and Metabolism
  • Infection and Immunity
  • Ethics
  • Brain and Behaviour
  • Human Development
  • Clinical Communication Skills
  • Medicine in Society (GEP)

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Year 5 GP5: Community Care

• Dr Will Spiring
• r.w.spiring@qmul.ac.uk

Teaching Material for this Module

Introduction

To provide an introduction to general practice and primary care and to help you become better doctors irrespective of your career preference or eventual career choice.

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Index

• General Outcomes for Community Care
• Fertility and Infertility

• General Outcomes for Community Care
  • Medical knowledge: PATHOLOGY (TD 8.7)
    • General Pathology
      1. Has an in depth knowledge of disease mechanisms underlying conditions commonly encountered in community practice (click here to see list)
      2. Knows the natural history of common acute, chronic and self limiting conditions as seen in general practice (click here for list)
  • Medical knowledge: SOCIOLOGY (TD 10 a-e)
    • Community Health
      1. Understand the effect of illness on the community
  • Clinical skills: HISTORY (TD 13 a-b)
    • Taking a History
      1. Can take a detailed and comprehensive history from a patient in a community setting (click here for list )
  • Clinical skills: PHYSICAL EXAMINATION (TD 13 c)
    • Examining the Patient
      1. Can undertake a number of specialist examinations in a community care setting (click here for list)
  • Clinical skills: MAKING A DIAGNOSIS and CLINICAL JUDGEMENT (TD 14 e-f)
    • Diagnosis and Reasoning
      1. Identify the benefits and problems of early or pre-symptomatic diagnosis
  • Clinical skills: DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES (TD 18 a)
    • General Procedures
      1. Is able to perform common diagnostic proceedures or techniques (click here to see list)
  • Clinical skills: FORMULATING A TREATMENT PLAN (TD 14 g)
    • General Principles of Patient Management
      1. Has an in depth understanding of how to manage conditions commonly encountered in community practice (click here to see list)
      2. Recognition and management of sudden and undifferentiated illness in the community (click to see list)
      3. Demonstrate the importance and problems in patients' adherence to therapy
    • Disease Management in the Community
      1. Has an in depth understanding of how to manage conditions commonly encountered in community practice (click here to see list)
      2. Understands the importance of the family as well as the cultural, socio-economic and psychological background in the management of patients and how they present in general practice
      3. Understand the role of informal carers in the community
      4. Understand the relationship between primary care and community services, secondary care, social services and the “voluntary sector
      5. Understands the difference between general practice/community based practice and hospital based practice
    • Out of hours care
      1. Experience out of hours attachments; Walk-in centre/polyclinics/primary care centres/Emergency and Urgent Care Centre
      2. Understand why patients access health care in an urgent manner
      3. Understands the difference in doctor-patient relationships in the OOH setting
    • Health promotion and disease prevention
      1. Understand the need to identify high risk groups in general practice
      2. Describe Health Education practice in primary care
      3. Discuss the methods of prevention and health education within the Community including screening
    • Management of contraception
      1. Understand special concerns and considerations around sub-fertility and referral opportunities
      2. Demonstrate counselling for different contraception type and termination of pregnancy
  • Clinical Skills: CARE OF PATIENTS AND RELATIVES AT END OF LIFE (TD 14 j)
    • Palliative Care
      1. Describe team working in end-of-life care
      2. Know about the role of funeral directors and support for bereaved families
      3. Explain common problems and solutions around pain control, drug use and administration
      4. Describe relevant details regarding rituals for death management, and legal aspects of certification and cremation
      5. Is able to identify examples of end of life decision making
  • Clinical skills: INTERACTION WITH PATIENTS (TD 15 a-b)
    • Interacting with Patients - General
      1. Analyse the nature of the doctor-patient relationship and how this relationship is used in contacts with patients
      2. Value and practise good communication skills
      3. Can explain common proceedures encounterd in community settings and communicate appropriately with collegues (click here to see list)
  • Clinical skills: PRESCRIBING DRUGS SAFELY AND EFFECTIVELY (TD 17 a-h)
    • General Principles
      1. Identify the clinical risks associated with poly-pharmacy and drug interactions
      2. Illustrate the requirements for prescribing in general practice
      3. Understands the role of community pharmacy in care for patients; medicine usage and understanding, concordance, dispensing rules and regulations including Controlled Drugs
  • Professional issues: WORKING IN TEAMS (TD 22 a-c)
    • Primary Care Team / Community Medicine
      1. Understands the importance of teamwork in primary care and the skills and responsibilities of individual members both in the surgery and in continuing care at home
      2. Has an appreciation of the varying roles of different health professionals working in primary care
      3. Understand the role of the multidisciplinary healthcare team in the care of patients and their families
  • Professional issues: ETHICS and LAW (TD 20 a-g)
    • Good Medical Practice: Ethico-Legal Responsibilities of Patient Care
      1. Demonstrate the importance of making decisions in partnership with colleagues and patients
      2. Demonstrate professional behaviour when undertaking independent tasks
  • Professional issues: RISK MANAGEMENT and PATIENT SAFETY (TD 23 d)
    • Principles of Risk Management
      1. Appreciate that uncertainty exists and how to minimise risk to the patient, doctor or carer
      2. Appreciate the potential clinical risk in unsupported settings and in the undifferentiated presentation of illness out of hours.
  • Professional issues: PERSONAL ATTITUDES and SELF CARE (TD 23 f-j)
    • General Outcomes for Personal Attitudes and Self Care
      1. Appreciate how the doctor's own views, feelings and life experiences influence patient care
• Fertility and Infertility
  • General Outcomes for Fertility, Implantation and Infertililty
    1. Understand special concerns and considerations around sub-fertility and referral opportunities

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