| Organisation of the attachment |
Aims and learning outcomes |
Students will be attached to Chelsea & Westminster, Ealing, Hillingdon, St Mary’s or Northwick Park Hospitals for the duration of this 3-week attachment. The units are varied in their interests and the aim of the attachment is to give the students a chance to sample the subjects. Aspects of GU Medicine, Infectious Diseases and HIV are also covered in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, microbiology, general medicine attachments and gynaecology. |
| The key points are covered in the 9-lecture course |
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into Blackboard using your Imperial
username and password to view the HIV-GUM-ID course. |
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| Assessment: An end of firm assessment form will be completed for each student. |
Reporting instructions |
Chelsea & Westminster |
Report to Andrew Leavis or Dr Nick Theobald on the first Monday morning to the Education Unit, 4th floor, St Stephen's Centre, 369 Fulham Road, London SW10 (next door to Chelsea and Westminster). The time will be sent to you by email with timetables during the week before. If the first Monday is a Bank Holiday please check beforehand with Andrew on 020 3315 6149. |
Ealing |
Report to the teaching coordinator, Narinder Virdee, at 10 am on the first Monday, Lobby area, level 3 in the Postgraduate Centre. All clinical activity takes place in the Pasteur Suite on level 8. |
Northwick Park |
Report to Ms Anup Jethwa, Undergraduate Office, Level 6, Medical Education Centre, V Block at 8.30 am on the first day. |
St Mary's |
Report to the secretary's office, Clinical Trials Centre, ground floor, Winston Churchill Wing on the first day at 9 am. |
| Aims and learning outcomes |
| By the end of the 3-week attachment you should be able to: |
- take a sexual history
- demonstrate competence at male and female genital examination
- describe the presentation and management of common sexually transmitted infections
- recall the particular issues relating to HIV antibody testing
- interpret CD4 lymphocyte counts and HIV viral loads
- recognise the presentation of common AIDS diagnosis in the UK
- describe the principles and mode of action of combination anti-retroviral therapy
- list the principal side effects associated with combination anti-retroviral therapy
- describe the risks of needlestick injuries, their prevention and management
- take a history and examine returning travellers
- describe in outline initial management of patients with community acquired pneumonia, meningitis, tuberculosis, gastroenteritis and urinary tract infection
- arrange relevant tests for patients with suspected infection
- get up-to-date information on malaria prophylaxis and treatment
- broadly describe the microorganisms causing disease in man from prions, viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa to worms
- describe the principles of antimicrobial chemotherapy especially antibiotics
- demonstrate an ability to manage the initial assessment and treatment of common acute infectious emergencies
- meningitis
- septicaemia
- the confused pyrexial patient
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