Introduction to Third Year
2007/2008
Overview
Dr Kieran McGlade
Purpose of the Introductory Week
• To sensitize you to the learning
opportunities
• To Prepare you for the major themes
– Clinical responsibility
– Diagnosis and management
– Integrating clinical science with clinical care
9am –
10.30
Tues
Wed
Thurs
Fri
Overview
SBCP
workshop
Critical
thinking and
Clinical
Reasoning (1)
Patient Safety
Clinical module
Assessment
SSCs
(Seamus Heaney
Centre)
Groups 1-20
Needlestick
Injuries
Individual in
Society
11 –
12.30
Introduction to
SBCP
Path, Haem, Clin
Chem, Micro
SBCP
workshop
12- 1pm
History taking
and writing up
cases
FREE
2pm
Dermatology
3 – 4pm
(Seamus Heaney
Centre)
Groups 21-40
The
foundation
years
GMC matters
Principles of
Therapeutics
(1)
Critical thinking
and Clinical
Reasoning (2)
Principles of
Therapeutics
(2
Individual in
Society
Ethos of the course
• Integrated
– Single study guide
– Science and Medicine
Professionalism
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Duties of a doctor
Communication
Diligence
Respect
– Patients
– Teachers
– Property
Important Issues to note:
• Not everything in the exam will be “in the
lectures”
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Regular sustained application to studies
• Background reading
• Patient contact
• Make your learning patient based
• The more you put in – the more you will
get out!
• Microbiology lecture on Urinary Tract
Infection
The Clinical Course
Prof McMullin
Clinical course
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General Medicine & Cardiology (7)
General Surgery (6)
Endocrinology & Diabetes (1 + 1)
Neurology (2)
Ophthalmology (2)
Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) (2)
Musculoskeletal Medicine (3)
Dermatology (1)
Nephrology (1)
Haematology (1)
• Member of the ward team
• Case reports
• Integration with other parts of the course
If there is a problem ….
• Do something right away!
• Find out who is in charge of the subject locally
and their secretary (in study guide)
• Go to them
• If this does not solve problem contact person in
charge of education at hospital
• If that does not solve the problem contact
subject co-ordinator
• If that does not solve the problem contact Prof
Mc Mullin (sooner rather than later)
Student Selected Components
Dr Kieran McGlade
SSCs
• Three week blocks (at beginning of each semester)
• New clinical SSCs
Introduction to Third Year
2007/2008