Professional Skills and Communication 3
Syllabus, Bachelor's level, 3AM008
- Code
- 3AM008
- Education cycle
- First cycle
- Grading system
- Fail (U), Pass (G)
- Finalised by
- The Board of the Medicine Programme, 25 May 2016
- Responsible department
- Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences
General provisions
Course that runs through the whole education and during semester 3 intends to give continued support to the student's professional development (PD) as well as advanced knowledge of the scientific methods that will be applied in the programme. PD includes communication, professional attitude as well as personal development and teamwork.
Entry requirements
The education follows a set course of studies, which implies that the courses should be taken in an established order.
For admission to a new term, it is required that all compulsory components as well as all examinations from nearest previous semester to the new semester are completed and passed apart from three compulsory components and an examination that can remain as failed.
At re-entry into the programme after a study break, it is required that all courses from the previous terms are passed.
Learning outcomes
After the course, the student compared with Professional skills on semester 2 should:
-be able to identify factors that influence patient- the physician communication such as personal development, own values and attitudes, gender perspectives and multiethnic aspects.
-be able to and give concrete examples of basic psychological mechanisms with relevance for health and illness.
-be familiar with the bases at personality psychology as well as children's cognitive, emotional and social development
-be able to account for how different treaties if human rights are relevant for the care as well as for the Swedish läkaretiken
-be able to, reflect on and discuss ethical problems that arise in connection with care of illegal refugees
-be able to reflect on ethical problems that arise in connection with vårdfrågor around the life and the death
-be able to carry out basic eyes, ears- nose and halsstatus, tyroidea and basic lymförtelstatus
- be able to examine the musculoskeletal system related to topographic anatomy
- be able to carry out basic abdominal status with a focus on the organ of the abdomen related to topographic anatomy. Know how ändtarmsundersökning is done
-describe important milstolpar in the history of the medicine
-be able to carry out injections
Content
PD comes the four first semesters to concentrate oneself on conversational skills, communication, professional attitude, clinical basic skills as medical history and statustagande, medical ethics and law as well as medical psychology and scientific approach. Combined theoretical and practical exercises that are included are inter alia neurology and ears, nose and halsstatus, topographic anatomy, abdominal status the diagnostic process and important milstolpar in the history of the medicine.
Instruction
The teaching takes place a whole day every second week. Course comes normally to divide in two halves where half group come to be on Uppsala Biomedical Centre (BMC) while the other half is out in the primary care. Attendance and active participation are compulsory. Then, one exchanges placing. Certain weeks it is however full-class teaching. On BMC, theoretical education as well as practical exercises in basic sampling technique and physical study of the human body take place. In a care centre that the student will return to during the education, take place supervised education in communication technique and physical ”bed-side” study of patients with national diseases that connect if possible to other study block on the semester.
Assessment
The student is examined continuously during the course. To pass the course, attendance and passed activities in the compulsory components as well as the clinical duty in health care centres in 4 days are required. For regulatory framework about absence from compulsory components, see programme syllabus in the students' guide.
Final examination of PD takes place at the end of semester 4.
Prematurely interrupted clinical placement: A student may fail and be forced to interrupt the clinical placement prematurely if there is a noticeable risk that the student due to incompetence may injure another individual or valuable property if he or she continues the clinical placement. An individual plan should be decided for the student and be given to him or her in writing. This plan, to be decided by the programme committee, must state the knowledge and skill shortages at hand, the support the student may receive from the department and also state how and when the assessment will take place. A student is entitled to a maximum of two control occasions, however no more than once a year. The student may not participate in the clinical placement again, until the programme committee has checked and accepted the required knowledge and skills of the student. Decisions on the individual study plan may be delegated by the programme committee to a student welfare committee or equivalent with student representation.
Students who have failed to accomplish the clinical placement with a pass have the right to undergo renewed placement once. If special circumstances apply, the programme committee can admit additional occasion to go through clinical training.
Reading list
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2021
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2019
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2018
- Reading list valid from Spring 2018
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2016
- Reading list valid from Spring 2016
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2015, version 2
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2015, version 1
- Reading list valid from Spring 2015
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2014
- Reading list valid from Spring 2013
- Reading list valid from Spring 2012, version 2
- Reading list valid from Spring 2012, version 1
- Reading list valid from Spring 2010
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2009
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2008
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2007