Specialties

• WHOLE PERSON
  • The Whole Person
  • The Medical Patient
  • The Surgical Patient
  • The Community Patient
• CARDIORESPIRATORY
  • Cardiovascular System
  • Respiratory System
  • Haematology
• METABOLISM
  • Gastrointestinal System
  • Renal and Urinary System
  • Endocrine System
• HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
  • Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Child Health
  • Sexual Health and HIV
• BRAIN AND BEHAVIOUR
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry
  • Ophthalmology
  • Head and Neck (ENT)
• LOCOMOTOR
  • Musculoskeletal System
  • Health Care of the Elderly
  • Dermatology

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WHOLE PERSON: The Medical Patient

Index

• General Outcomes for Acute and Chronic Medical Care

• General Outcomes for Acute and Chronic Medical Care
  • TD 16: PROVIDE IMMEDIATE CARE IN MEDICAL EMERGENCIES
    • Basic Life Support
      1. Understand the principles of resuscitation
  • Medical knowledge: PATHOLOGY (TD 8.7)
    • General Pathology
      1. Has an in-depth understanding of the mechanisms of disease that under lie the 30 key medical conditions and can contribute to the patients’ diagnosis and treatment (click here for list) (YR5tw2, YR5tw2, YR5tw2)
  • Medical knowledge: SOCIOLOGY (TD 10 a-e)
    • Chronic Illness and Disability
      1. Describe the key factors that connect acute care, chronic disease management and prevention in modern medicine.
  • Medical knowledge: PUBLIC HEALTH and GLOBAL HEALTH (TD 11 a-j)
    • Lifestyle and Disease
      1. Identify the most prevalent types of chronic illness in the UK.
  • Clinical skills: HISTORY (TD 13 a-b)
    • Taking a History
      1. Can take a detailed and throrough medical history from an acutely unwell patient or from a relative or others
  • Clinical skills: PHYSICAL EXAMINATION (TD 13 c)
    • Examining the Patient
      1. Can perform a detailed physical examination of an acutely unwell patient
  • Clinical skills: PLANNING AND INTERPRETING INVESTIGATIONS (TD 14 c-d)
    • General
      1. Can propose and interpret appropriate investigations (based on the results of history taking and physical examination) in the out-patient clinic, emergency room and ward setting.
  • Clinical skills: MAKING A DIAGNOSIS and CLINICAL JUDGEMENT (TD 14 e-f)
    • Diagnosis and Reasoning
      1. Propose a differential diagnosis and formulate an initial management plan for a patient with common medical and mental health acute presentations
  • Clinical skills: DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES (TD 18 a)
    • General Procedures
      1. Is competent to perform key diagnostic procedures (click here for list)
  • Clinical skills: FORMULATING A TREATMENT PLAN (TD 14 g)
    • General Principles of Patient Management
      1. Can formulate an initial managment plan for a patient with one of the 30 key medical conditions (click here for list)
      2. Understand the key elements in managing all aspects of medical illness
      3. Has a general understanding of how undifferentiated patients are managed within a hospital setting
      4. Can competently perform handovers
  • Clinical skills: THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES (TD 18 b)
    • General
      1. Able to perform (under close supervision) or describe specified therapeutic procedures (click here to see list)
      2. Be able to perform various procedures as per the Foundation Year Curriculum (click here to see list)
  • Clinical skills: PRESCRIBING DRUGS SAFELY AND EFFECTIVELY (TD 17 a-h)
    • General Principles
      1. Shadow Prescribe medications under supervision
      2. Be able to prescribe appropriately (under supervision) drugs and techniques used for pain relief (click here to see list)
  • Professional issues: RISK MANAGEMENT and PATIENT SAFETY (TD 23 d)
    • Principles of Risk Management
      1. Knows about methods for ensuring the safety of patients (click here to see details)

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