Course Structure - Year Five

What is Involved?

This module in the fifth medical year is directed towards integration of the clinical sciences and their application through clinical attachments within the hospital. Lectures will address the approach to and investigation of particular clinical problems and instruct in the interpretation of results pertaining to those conditions commonly encountered on the wards.

Student Experience

The student develops their technical skills mandatory for the delivery of a safe and effective service to the patient. They build on competence from earlier years in a range of necessary practical skills including history taking, conduction a comprehensive clinical examination and interpreting these findings and present them in a coordinated manner. They learn to interprete laboratory, for example, (FBC, MSU, Biochemistry), ECG and X ray findings and to assimilate information from clinical history, examination and key laboratory tests to formulate a differential diagnosis and to plan management for a patient.

Plenty (of) opportunities for patient interaction and clinical practice. Good lecture material and high quality lecturers/tutors

Major Medical Specialities for rotations

What is Involved?

During the surgery attachment, students spend a lot of time on the wards speaking with and examining patients. While on attachment, the student attends OPD clinics, operating theatre sessions, day ward admissions, ward rounds and the multidisciplinary clinical conferences.

Student Experience

The student should be able to take and document full medical history and physical examination. They should recognise signs, symptoms and presentation of common surgical diseases. They should integrate common laboratory and imaging investigations to interpret them to formulate a working diagnosis and initial management plan. They should know basic principles of surgery regarding common surgical procedures, recognise common post operative complications and management.

Consultant tutorials were excellent and our clinical tutors made time for us whenever we needed it.

Major Surgical Specialities

What is Involved?

The Clinical Practice & Clinical Skills course expands on competencies developed in years 2, 3 and 4 to prepare you for Intern practice. It focuses on

• Practical skills including revision and extended practice.
• Blood Transfusion Safety Course
• AHA /IHF Basic Life Support HCP Course
• Trauma Evaluation and Management (TEAM)
• Acute Life-Threatening Events Recognition and Treatment ( ALERT)

Student Experience

They student will be able to perform basic practical skills confidently and be able to demonstrate competence in the skills lab setting. They will demonstrate knowledge regarding patient preparation, indications, contra indications, potential risks and management of complications relating to clinical procedures. They will demonstrates evidence based practical procedures and knowledge of and safely manages common medical and surgical emergencies in a simulated setting.

The professionalism assessment was really useful as it is not often we get observed taking a history or doing an examination in medical school.

Intern shadowing gives realistic view of what is expected of us next

What is Involved?

During the first semester of 5th medical year, students are required to carry out a further four weeks of clinical elective experience. This enables students to consolidate their clinical knowledge in a setting which will allow for escalation of responsibility in comparison to electives undertaken in 3rd and 4th medicine.

Sub Internship

5th Year students are required to undertake a two week sub-internship (“intern shadowing”) rotation and involves attachment to a medical or surgical team, with supervision from a named intern and senior team members.

Student Experience

This provide the student with the opportunity to choose which fields will best benefit them in terms of specialties they may not have covered, or skills they may not have practiced enough.

Sub Internship

The sub-internship rotation offers practical experience in undertaking pre-specified administrative work, It is an opportunity to utilise, under supervision, previously acquired clinical skills. It focuses learning of day-to-day management of hospital inpatients and supervises introduction to care plan management and clinical decision-making in partnership with patients

Intern shadowing gives realistic view of what is expected of us next