Pilihan program

Ringkasan program

In the 1st 2 years of the course, academic and clinical studies are based on campus at Falmer; teaching is organised into 3 10-week terms, with 25 per cent of the learning clinically based, and including experience in primary care and community medicine and in different out-patient settings in the school�s partner Trust hospitals; there is an individual family study in each of these years; students develop clinical skills in history-taking, physical examination, diagnosis and effective communication with patient, and study the normal and abnormal functioning of the human body using a system-based approach; Years 3-4 are based at the Audrey Emerton Building, the Education Centre at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton; the teaching year is now extended to about 45 weeks, with short breaks at Christmas and Easter and a longer break in the summer; Year 3 includes 4 8-week ward-based clinical attachments, plus short attachments in specialist options; clinical experience is integrated with understanding of underlying clinical and social sciences and public health issues; students maintain individual patient portfolio; Year 4 begins with an 8-week clinical elective, offering students the opportunity to experience medical practice in a cultural and clinical setting completely different from their training hospitals; this is often taken overseas, especially in developing countries; year also includes a rotation of clinical placements in specialist subjects; Year 5 provides clinical and professional preparation for student�s first postgraduate year as a pre-registration house officer (PRHO); students undertake attachments which include a rotation of clinical placements in district general hospital and community settings in Sussex and its adjoining counties as well as in the School�s University Hospitals Trust teaching hospitals; there is an element of choice within these attachments, and students also spend periods shadowing PRHOs; between the attachments, there is a block of instruction in practical emergency medicine based in the School�s clinical skills facilities and, throughout the year, an online programme of study is available to enhance knowledge and clinical and professional skills.

Modul program

Year 1: Foundation of health and disease; Heart, lungs and blood; Nutrition, metabolism and excretion; Clinical practice 1: placements in hospital setting, primary care setting and with a family with a new baby. Year 2: Neuroscience and behaviour; reproduction and locomotion; endocrine and immune systems; clinical practice 2: placements in hospital setting, primary care setting and with a family with a dependant requiring continued care. Year 3: Clinical foundation; medicine; surgery; reproductive and child health; elderly care and mental health; scientific basis of medicine; student-selected components. Year 4: Clinical elective; specialist rotations in dermatology, genito-urinary medicine, infectious diseases (including HIV), musculo-skeletal medicine, neurology, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology and oncology/haematology; individual research projects; community care and general practice. Year 5: Regional attachments; professional studies programme; emergency medicine.

Kualifikasi

Sarjana (S1)

Institusi penerbit ijazah

University of Brighton

Nama jurusan

Brighton and Sussex Medical School