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 4 CSP4b: Global Health and Ethics
- Dr Jeannette Naish
- j.c.naish@qmul.ac.uk
Introduction
Global health lectures aim to encourage students to broaden their concept of health and consider health in the global context.
AIMS
1. To introduce medical students to international issues that have impact on global health
2. Demonstrate the significance of global issues relevant to the health of Londoners
3. Examine the changing nature of health and healthcare worldwide
4. Consider environmental health issues; tsunamis, earthquakes, global warming
5. Examine the political and economic reasons for poverty and inequality
6. Consider conflict as a public health concern
7. Review the evolution of infectious diseases and the control of infections worldwide
Index
- General Outcomes for the Whole Person
- Medical knowledge: PUBLIC HEALTH and GLOBAL HEALTH (TD 11 a-j)
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General Global Health Topics
- The aim of the lecture is to contextualize the role of diagnostics in the control and elimination of malaria in the 21st Century in terms of WHO recommendations, case definitions and treatment regimens.
- To demonstrate an understanding of global health issues with regards to neglected tropical diseases
- To understand key principles of community development approaches to health improvement
- To understand the terminology, history and debate between schools of selective and comprehensive public health care
- To understand the terminology and history of tension between vertical programmes and public health care.
- To understand approaches to evaluating health improvement interventions
- To understand some of the opportunities the proposals for a new public health in local authorities offer
- To understand the evidence deficit in health improvement.
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Social Policy
- To improve understanding of the health and social policy evidence base surrounding ‘welfare to work’, in the context of dominant public values and their reinforcement
- To convey the importance of food policy for public health
- Some of the key aspects of intellectual property and public health, particularly access to essential medicines.
- To improve understanding of the relevance of this to working with patients who are unfit to work or who are concerned about their capacity to work
- To summarise some main food debates
- Made aware of the interaction of intellectual property with other areas of law in the field of public health, including human rights and competition law.
- To improve understanding of the changing role of medical practitioners in relation to fitness for work
- To introduce the notion of sustainable diets.
- To improve understanding of what an informed approach to capacity to work might look like both locally and nationally, and how doctors can make a positive contribution in a new commissioning context
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Health Systems including the HNS
- Explain the significance of health care systems for population health
- Explain the basis of funding and organization of the health service in the UK
- Understand the ways in which health care systems differ from the perspective of funding, financing and planning
- Describe the key market oriented changes introduced in the NHS over the last three decades and the basis of the evidence in support of them
- Explain the key proposals set out in the Health and Social Bill 2011 and explore implications for public health
- Describe how the systems of funding and organization of health care impacts on access to health care and use of services by the population.
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Health Inequalities
- Describe the extent of health and income inequalities worldwide
- Describe the extent of health and income inequalities worldwide
- Understand some of the key factors that might explain why some countries with similar incomes achieve variant child health outcomes
- Understand some of the key factors that might explain why some countries with similar incomes achieve variant child health outcomes
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Migration, Conflict and Mental Health
- Define different types of migration
- To give an overview of states of world refugeesTo give an overview of the mental health of refugees
- To be familiar with causes and consequences of global migration
- To be familiar with specific health and social care needs of forced migrant populations
- To be able to understand the complex mental health states of refugees and migrant groups
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General Global Health Topics
- Professional issues: ETHICS and LAW (TD 20 a-g)
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Transplant Ethics
- Describe the evolution of transplant ethics since 1968.
- Describe extent and explain the causes of the "organ crisis".
- Outline the possible solutions or approaches to the organ crisis.
- Describe the different global trends in organ commercialism, transplant tourism and organ trafficking and outline the principles of the Declaration of Istanbul, the European law, and the UK Law concerning organ commercialism.
- Argue pro and con a regulated market in organs.
- Argue pro and con a policy of implied consent (opt-out) for organ donation upon death.
- Explain why altruistic living unrelated donation (LURD) is a legal FICTION
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Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Argue pro and con termination of pregnancy.
- Describe the legal status of the foetus.
- Explain the concept of personhood and describe its relation to the morality of abortion.
- Describe the legal conditions of lawful abortion as outlined in the Abortion Act 1967 (1990).
- Explain the legal status of the woman and of her husband/partner regarding abortion.
- Describe the duties and rights of the doctor in relation to abortion.
- Outline the principles of the HFEA 1990 concerning research on embryos.
- Identify legal and ethical issues in reproductive medicine, prenatal screening and genetic counselling.
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Ethics in Paediatrics
- Identify three distinct groups of minors in relation to mental capacity, consent and refusal of treatment.
- Describe the medical law pertaining to minors and the tension reflected therein between respect for their autonomy and acting in their best interests.
- Explain the legal concept of parental responsibility and its relevance to the consent question.
- Explain how conflicts between the interests of minors and their guardians ought to be resolved.
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Transplant Ethics
- Medical knowledge: PUBLIC HEALTH and GLOBAL HEALTH (TD 11 a-j)
