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Programme and Module Handbook

Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2008-2009 (archived)

Module MEDI2023: MEDICINE 4

Department: Health (Medicine) [Queen's Campus, Stockton]

MEDI2023: MEDICINE 4

Type Tied Level 2 Credits 60 Availability Available in 2008/09 Module Cap None. Location Queen's Campus, Stockton
Tied to A106

Prerequisites

  • Entrance to MBBS, Completion of Stage 1.

Corequisites

  • Medicine 3.

Excluded Combination of Modules

  • All modules except Medicine 3.

Aims

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Content

  • Life Cycle Stream: adulthood.
  • human reproduction.
  • pregnancy and parturition.
  • male and female health.
  • disability.
  • ageing.
  • death.
  • Personal and Professional Development Stream: doctors, social care and welfare.
  • doctors and populations.
  • Medicine in the Community Stream: social care and welfare in the community.
  • community, nation and world.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:
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Subject-specific Skills:
    Key Skills:

      Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

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      Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

      Activity Number Frequency Duration Total/Hours
      Lectures (Life Cycle) 40 2 per week 1 hour 40
      Lectures (PPD) 7 Every 3 weeks 1 hour 7
      Lectures (MiC) 11 Weekly 1 hour 11
      Tutorials (Life Cycle) 10 Every 2 weeks 1 hour 20 (query)
      Tutorials (PPD) 11 Every 2 weeks 3 hours 33
      Seminars (PPD) 11 Every 2 weeks 2 hours 22
      Seminars (MiC) 11 Weekly 2 hours 22
      Practicals (Life Cycle) 5 Every 4 weeks 2 hours 10
      Practicals (PPD) 6 3 per semester 3 hours 18
      Fieldwork (MiC) 10 Weekly 3.5 hours 35
      Case Presentation (Life Cycle) 20 Weekly 1 20
      Preparation and Reading (Life Cycle) 110
      Preparation and Reading (PPD) 120
      Preparation and Reading (MiC) 132
      Total 600

      Summative Assessment

      Multiple choice questions; extended matching items questions; objective structured practical/clinical examinations; data handling; essays/reports.

      Formative Assessment:

      PPD Stream only: A learning portfolio will be kept by each student and will be used by tutors for formative assessment. Each practical session on clinical skills and communication skills will involve formative assessment. MiC Stream only: no formative assessment will be set outwith the cross-curricula (and therefore cross-modular) assessments in the Level 2 programme.

      ■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University