Year 2, 2011-12

Course Leader: Dr Elizabeth Muir
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Course aims

The Personal and Professional Development course in Year 2 is a mixture of small group tutorial sessions and open learning. The open learning is mainly delivered using materials on the intranet supported by activities which should be completed in the timetabled sessions and submitted by the dates given e.g. Belbin Personality questionnaire, resilience quotient and leadership questionnaires etc.

The course aims to provide information and resources about a number of key aspects of becoming a professional practitioner in medicine, highlighting topical issues that are currently challenging doctors. For up-to-date information about assessment refer to the year 3 exams page.

 

My e-portfolio training guides and video tutorials

Please record your thoughts on course materials and questionnaires in your e-portfolio so that you can store them. You will need these documents in future years.
Tasks from clinical attachment: submit a copy (Word .doc format) of each of your four task reports to your PPD tutor, and also as below. Please submit via the portal by deadline of 31 January.
  1. On team working - submit via the portal selecting the Yr2-PPD-Task1 option
  2. Disability - submit via the portal selecting the Yr2-PPD-Task2 option
  3. Patient safety cases - submit via the portal selecting the Yr2-PPD-Task3 option
  4. Discharge summaries - submit via the portal selecting the Yr2-PPD-Task4 option

There is no need to send your reports by email to Dr Muir as she can access your work via the portals.

Click on the session tabs to view the module content

SESSION 1

SESSION 1:   The Professional Doctor: Duties of a Medical Student (taught session in Autumn term)  

In preparation for your Year 2 Clinical attachment, this session takes as its starting point the GMC documents Duties of a Doctor and Medical students: professional behavior and fitness to practise. We shall consider the role of medical students, contrasting these with those of qualified doctors, in the light of these booklets of guidance. What are your rights and responsibilities? What are the boundaries? Where do you go for help and advice? What common problems and issues do medical students encounter and, more importantly, what strategies can you use to help you through your time as medical students?

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this tutorial the student should be able to:

    1. Understand the relevance of the Personal and Professional Development Course in the overall curriculum
    2. Define the characteristics of a professional
    3. Describe and discuss the concept of medical professionalism in terms of attributes identifiable as virtues
    4. Compare and contrast differences in the duties of a medical student and qualified doctor, based on guidance from the Faculty and the GMC’s professional behavior and fitness to practise document
    5. Judge how to behave appropriately as a medical student
    6. Know what to do when medical professional values are put at risk
    7. Know what to do to achieve the objectives of the clinical attachments, taking responsibility for own learning, using resources and showing respect for patients
    8. Apply Belbin descriptors to aspects of team/ group work
Session Document Title Author
The Professional Doctor:Duties of a Medical Student My ePortfolio [To save your work] N/A
Professional Organisations: Who Deals With What? [ppt] N/A
Professional Organisations: Who is in Charge? [Word] N/A
Professional Organisations: Key Medical Scandals N/A
Duties of a Medical Student [ppt] Dr Elizabeth Muir
  Duties of a Medical Student - Case Scenarios [Word] N/A
Belbin Self-assessment Read the details [Word]
Download the Excel calculator and save to your personal file space
Enter your Belbin data at the portal by 18:00 on 7 October 2010
SESSION 2

SESSION 2:   The globally-aware doctor: Think global, act local (computer assisted learning session)
In this session, you will explore the impact of prejudice and discrimination on your medical practice. Age, class, ethnicity, gender and disability will be considered as well as the topical area of refugees and asylum seekers. Global influences on healthcare including poverty, human rights and the influence of the pharmaceutical industry will also be explored.

Session Document Title Author
Session 2 Icon My ePortfolio [to save your work] N/A
Learning Objectives [Word] N/A
Attitudes Questionnaire [Word] N/A
Cultural Awareness [Word] N/A
Ageism and Health [Word] N/A
Asylum seeker and Refugee Health [Word] N/A
Disability [Word] N/A
Global Institutions in Context [Word] N/A
Health & Human Rights [Word] N/A
Racism and Health [Word] N/A
SESSION 3


SESSION 3:   The self-aware doctor: Teamwork and professional relationships (computer assisted learning session)
This session will provide an opportunity for you to identify and reflect upon difficult or demanding aspects of professional relationships; develop effective coping strategies to deal with difficult situations; investigate the professional view of team work and how this works in practice and recognise your own strengths as a team member.

We recommend that you read and consider the following. The Checklist Manifesto - How to Get Things Right, A Gawande [ cover, first page, next - please note you will need to rotate the files to view]. We also recommend the book to you and have asked the Library to stock it.

Session Document Title Author
Module 3 - The self-aware Doctor: Teamwork & professional Relationships My ePortfolio N/A
Learning Objectives [Word] N/A
Learning Styles Questionnaire [Word] N/A
Study Skills [Word] N/A
Teamwork [Word] N/A
Team-building [Word] N/A
Johari Window [Word] N/A
Medical Humanities [Word] N/A
SESSION 4

SESSION 4:   The health-aware doctor: Physician heal thyself (computer assisted learning session)
Doctors are often regarded as better at caring for others than themselves. This session aims to develop skills and understanding of self care and looks at some of the major issues for medical students and doctors. The issues of responsibility for other doctors and ‘whistle blowing’ will be explored and you will be encouraged to identify strategies and skills which you will be able to use throughout your career.

Session Document Title Author
The Health Aware Doctor My ePortfolio [to save your work] N/A
Learning Objectives [Word] N/A
Stress (Tasks 1 - 4) [Word] N/A

Foundation Year Work Diaries

These diaries have been written by Imperial students who have graduated recently. They hope that their very personal accounts of the ‘job’ will give you insights into what to expect and enable you to prepare for the role.

Diary of a 3rd Year Medical Student [Word] N/A
Resilience [Word] N/A
Understanding Addiction [Word] N/A
Whistle-blowing [Word] N/A
Humanities [Word] N/A
SESSION 5

This session is a tutorial with a clinical tutor. Please see your guide for the learning objectives and tasks.

SESSION 5:   The safe doctor: Coping with mistakes (taught session in Spring term) and Review of CAL sessions
Why do doctors make mistakes? What factors underlie an adverse event caused by human error? Thinking about this topic will help you to explore how your knowledge, skills, attitudes and personalities interact in the professional setting with either beneficial or potentially disastrous effect. This session aims to promote a culture that seeks for continuous improvement rather than blame.

References for Session 5:
Gawande, Anul: Complications : a surgeon’s notes on an imperfect science. London: Profile Books 2002 ISBN 186 197 4981
Vincent, Charles, Ed: Clinical Risk management   2nd Edition 2000 BMJ publications. ISBN 07279
Vincent, Charles: The Essentials of Patient Safety, 2011. Download free short book

Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality (CPSSQ)

Session Document Title Author
The Safe Doctor My ePortfolio [to save your work] N/A
Tutorial [Word] N/A
Leadership Introduction [Word] N/A
Leadership Questionnaire [word] N/A

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