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 5 : Emergency Medicine (EMERG MED)
- Mr John Brecknell
- john.brecknell@bhrhospitals.nhs.uk
Teaching Material for this Module
Introduction
In this module you will acquire knowledge and skills required in the prevention, diagnosis and management of acute and urgent aspects of illness and injury. Through talks, lectures, tutorials and placements you will learn about the different areas of emergency and acute medicine, including medical acute admissions, resuscitation, Majors – assessment and care, CDU, minor injuries and Immediate Life Support. The student is expected to learn a range of practical and diagnostic skills, for example, venesection, cannula insertion, ECG and CXR interpretation.
There is no exam for this module, students will be assessed via their logbooks.
Sessions
- Lecture: Acid-Base Regulation
- Lecture: Venous thromboembolism
- Lecture: Electrolytes and Metabolic Disturbance
- Lecture: Diabetic Emergencies
- Lecture: Resuscitation End Points
- Lecture: What Fluid?
- Understand the basic physiology of body fluid compartmentation and the need for fluid therapy.
- Describe the fluids available and the pros and cons of choosing a fluid.
- Know when to use crystalloids and colloids for fluid therapy.
- Discuss fluid therapy in relation to acid-base regulation.
- Discuss intravenous fluid therapy.
- Discuss the use of transfusion.
- Lecture: How to identify the sick patient
- Consider the appropriateness of initial treatment and its impact on patient well-being.
- Recognise the types of deficiences in the care of the acutely ill.
- Know of the common causes of sub-optimal patient care.
- Be able to carry out the initial assessment and diagnosis of the acutely ill patient.
- Recognise the signs and symptoms of the critically ill-patient.
- Lecture: Shock
- Lecture: Trauma Care
