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 3 GPCC3: General Practice and Community Care
- Mrs Maria Hayfron-Benjamin
- m.j.hayfron-benjamin@qmul.ac.uk
Introduction
Overall aim: To acquire core curriculum knowledge broadly of cardio-respiratory, metabolic, surgical and neurological systems, and to develop clinical and communication skills through supported patient contact
Sessions
- General objectives for Year 3 GP attachment
- Be able to take and record a patient's medical history, and recognize the role of taking a focussed history
- Be able to present a coherent summary of a patient's medical history
- Attain competence in the general examination and key systems examinations, namely cardiovascular, respiratory, abdominal and basic neurological examinations
- Learn to apply theoretical knowledge to clinical practice in cardio-respiratory, gastrointestinal, metabolic and some neurology areas
- Demonstrate effective communication skills (verbal, non verbal and written) with patients and with professionals within the primary care multidisciplinary team
- Recognize the importance of a holistic approach, with particular reference to chronic disease management and palliative care
- Begin to demonstrate skills in promoting behaviour and lifestyle change
- Debate ethical issues pertinent to primary care
- Examine the interface between primary and secondary care and the integration of community and hospital services
- Compare the presentation of malignancy in primary care and secondary care and palliative care in the community and hospice.
- Be introduced to ENT in primary care and begin to carry out ENT examinations
