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
Sessions
- Introduction to Global Health
- GH: Comparing Health Systems
- Well London: Delivering and Evaluating Community Development Approaches in the Promotion of Wellbeing
- The Integration of Global Health Partnerships to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases
- How the English NHS is Being Opened to the Market: Implications for Comprehensive Care
- History and Debate Between Schools of Selective and Comprehensive Public Health Care
- Migration, Conflict and Mental Health
- Health and Income Inequalities Worldwide
- The Role of Diagnostics in the Control and Elimination of Malaria in the 21st Century
- The Evidence Base and the Din of the Prejudice: Working with People who Cannot Work.
- Doha Ten Years On and Access to Medicines
- Food Policy and Ecological Public Health: Integrating Health and other Values
- 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.
- The Transplant Debate
- 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.
