Early Primary Care (Lincoln)
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| MEDS3072 | Medical Education Centre | 3 | 10 | Spring UK |
- Code
- MEDS3072
- School
- Medical Education Centre
- Level
- 3
- Credits
- 10
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
The Principles of Primary Care module is a 2 week primary care attachment involving half the time spent on placement in general practice and the other half in taught sessions or self-directed learning. It provides an opportunity for students to return to and further enhance some of the key core skills of clinical medicine. History taking and consultation skills will be refreshed and built upon to enable students to begin to process the content of a history and target questions they ask to aid diagnosis and clinical decision making. This will be achieved through a combination of consulting with patients and facilitated teaching. Students will be encouraged to consider the psychological and social factors influencing patients’ health and individual patient priorities in managing illness. Time will be spent with GPs but also other members of the multidisciplinary team in primary care to allow students to become familiar with the roles of different professionals and their key contributions to managing patients. This will also be an opportunity to further develop and demonstrate key professional attitudes and behaviours. Students will be expected to reflect on their experiences with patients and other MDT members in a structured way, to help enhance their own history taking and consultation skills and direct their own ongoing professional development.
Target Students
Year 3 Lincoln Medicine Students
Classes
- One 2-hour seminar
- One 2-hour seminar
- One 3-hour placement
- One 3-hour placement
- One 2-hour lecture
Assessment
- 100% Report 1: 1500 word structured, reflective piece
Assessed by end of spring semester
Educational Aims
To allow students to: Build upon basic skills of communication to communicate effectively with patients in primary care and begin to use targeted history taking to aid diagnosis and clinical decision makingWitness and be able to evaluate the psychological and social factors influencing individual patients’ health and their responses to illness as well as a patient’s own priorities in managing illnessExperience and analyse the different roles and consulting practices of other health care professionals working in the primary care team and how these contribute to the overall care of patientsDemonstrate appropriate professional attitudes and behavioursLearning Outcomes
2d - maintain confidentiality and respect patients’ dignity and privacy
2e - act with integrity, be polite, considerate, trustworthy and honest
6a - recognise the complex medical needs, goals and priorities of patients, the factors that can affect a patient’s health and wellbeing and how these interact. These include psychological and sociological considerations that can also affect patients’ health
9c - recognise and show respect for the roles and expertise of other health and social care professionals and doctors from all specialties and care settings in the context of working and learning as a multiprofessional team
11a - elicit and accurately record a patient’s medical history, including family and social history
14a - propose an assessment of a patient’s clinical presentation, integrating biological, psychological and social factors, agree this with colleagues and use it to direct and prioritise investigations and care
Conveners
- Prof Alistair Warren