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Module 4: Head and neck anatomy
Aims:
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The anatomy of the head and neck is included in this module
and is delivered by lectures and through human dissection
Module 5: Neuroscience
The disciplines of anatomy, biochemistry, pharmacology and
therapeutics, physiology and psychiatry all participate in this
module.
Aims:
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To consider all aspects of the nervous system, from
biophysics to behaviour, in health and disease
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Anatomy – Neuroanatomy, studied through dissection
of the human brain and lectures
This module consists of lectures, practicals and interactive
workshops.
Module 6: Aetiology and mechanisms of disease
Aims:
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To revise and develop further an understanding of the
nature and significance of microbes in the 21st century
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To explore aspects of prevention and control of infection
and the challenges which are presented as a result of
globalisation
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To consider human-host responses to pathogens
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All disciplines use lectures, laboratory practicals and
small-group tutorials
Module 7: Fundamentals of clinical and professional
practice
Aims:
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To develop, at first in a laboratory setting, the technical
skills essential for the delivery of a safe, effective service to
patients. Students learn a range of practical skills including
taking a clinical history, performing an examination and
interpreting simple investigations
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To focus directly on the range of skills necessary to ensure
that students have rational and empathetic interactions with
patients, in particular excellent listening and communication
skills
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To assist the development of the student as a member
of a multidisciplinary health care team
Modes of delivery include communication workshops with
role play and video recording, skills laboratory, and workshops
on suturing, catheterisation, phlebotomy, etc. Attendance at
gerontology day care centres, diagnostic imaging and cardiology
departments, and pulmonary function laboratories are organised.
The third medical year
There are six modules.
Module 1: Pharmacology and therapeutics
Aims:
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To ensure that students have a broad knowledge of the
treatment of a wide range of common diseases
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To ensure that students can prescribe safely and effectively
in hospital and for the wider community
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To develop an appreciation of how to critically appraise
information in relation to drug therapy and assess the
evidence base contained in peer-reviewed journals
Module 2: Laboratory and investigative medicine
Aims:
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To expand and deepen the understanding of the role of
microbes in the causation of human health and disease
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To consider in detail how disease processes affect the cell
and consequently disrupt function at organ, system and
organism levels
Module 3: Principles of surgical practice and Module
4: Principles of medical practice
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To provide a safe, structured clinical environment in which
to apply the skills, knowledge and attitudes developed in the
earlier years
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To facilitate the practice of effective, patient centred,
evidence-based medicine
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To provide the student with experience of practice in the
hospital setting
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To develop the student’s capacity to reflect and self-assess
accurately and to appreciate the need to do clinical audit
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To encourage and provide opportunities for multi-
professional teamwork
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Clinical team attachments begin with a general introduction
in the first week of September.
Students are team attached
in groups of two. Students are also advised to do at
least one elective in either July or August which may
be spent in any discipline or area of their choice in any
location worldwide
Module 5: Advanced clinical and professional
practice
Aims:
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To further develop, at first in a laboratory setting, the
technical skills essential for the delivery of a safe effective
service to patients. Students learn a range of practical skills
including taking a clinical history, performing an examination
and interpreting simple investigations
n
To practice the range of skills necessary to ensure that
students have rational and empathetic interactions with
patients, in particular excellent listening and communication
skills
n
To further assist the development of the student as a
member of a multidisciplinary health care team