Clinical Attachments (Years 4 and 5)

A series of four-week clinical attachmentsin Medicine, Surgery, Psychological Medicine,Child Health, Obstetrics & Gynaecology and General Practice.

A student's view

Ellen, a medical student, describes her course.

Dissection – вскрытие, препарирование

Exercises:

1. Match these activities to the stages of medical education in the UK given in A.

1 dissecting cadavers

2 keeping a log of surgical procedures observed and performed

3 working for four months in Accident and Emergency to experience this specialty

4 taking a four-week attachment in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

5 taking an online course on recent developments in cardiovascular disease

2. Complete the sentences. Look at В and С to help you. Choose from the words:

seminar, elective, lectures, cadavers, clinical attachments, college, consultant, medical school, student selected modules, problem-based learning

1.Just before their final year, students have the chance to take an in a hospital of their choice anywhere in the world.................................................

2. .................... -.............................. contrasts with an approach where each subject is

taught separately.

3.These days................ are often interactive, with regular opportunities for the students to

ask questions.

4.In…................................. students learn how to treat and manage patients.

5. ................................................... can be a topic from outside medicine, such as a foreign language.

6.Dissection of............... is an important part of the anatomy component.

7.The…................................ at the University of Edinburgh is one of the oldest in the UK.

8.She's a.................. at the Royal; one of the leading paediatric heart specialists in the country.

9.The Royal................. of Surgeons in Edinburgh dates from 1505.

10.We have a............... each week where we discuss topics in a small group with our lecturer.

3 Match each of these activities to one of the components of the undergraduate course described in В and С.

1 .Julie spends six weeks working in a small hospital in the Himalayas.

2 .A group of students discuss together the possible reasons for abdominal pain after meals in a 44-year-old male.

3 .A small group of students trace the pulmonary artery in a cadaver.

4 .Otto spends a month working in the paediatric ward of the local hospital.

5 .Anne learns how to take blood from an elderly patient.

6 .Jane chooses to study Sports Medicine in her fourth year.

Lesson 2

The Foundation Programme

The Foundation Programme is a two-year training programme which forms the bridge between university-level study at medical school, and specialist or general practice training. It consists of a series of placements, each lasting four months, which allow the junior doctor, known as a trainee, to sample different specialties, for example paediatrics. A year one trainee corresponds to pre-registration house officer posts and a year two trainee to senior house officer posts. Each trainee has an educational supervisor. Trainees have to demonstrate a range of clinical competencies which are assessed through observation in their workplace.

People in medical education

Medical qualifications

Exercises:

1.Complete the phrases with verbs from the box. Two phrases can be completed in two different ways. Look at A and В to help you.

assess deliver demonstrate provide supervise take

1.__________a competence or how to do something

2.__________a trainee by ensuring she successfully completes her training

3.__________a course or a training programme (as a teacher)

4.__________a course or a training programme (as a student)

5.__________progress or competence

2.Match the two parts of the sentences. Look at А, В and С to help you.

1. A demonstrator is an anatomy teacher

2. A clinical trainer is a consultant

3. A supervisor is a consultant

4. A medical school is

5. A placement is

6. A college is

7. A Fellow is a specialist

a) a body of specialists responsible for delivering and assessing training in their specialty.

b) responsible for the training programme of a trainee.

c) a period spent as a trainee in a hospital or in General Practice.

d) who has reached the highest level in their specialty.

e) who provides training during periods of direct clinical care.

f) part of a university responsible for medical education.

g) who teaches dissection.