General provisions

Course that runs through the whole education and during semester 1 intends to give an introduction to the student's professional development (PD) as well as to the scientific methods that will be applied in the programme. PD includes communication, professional attitude, clinical basic skills as medical history and statustagande. Further, scientific approach, medical ethics and law as well as personal development and teamwork are included.

Entry requirements

Admitted to the physician programme. The education follows a set course of studies, which implies that the courses should be taken in an established order.

Learning outcomes

After the course, the student should:

- reflect on what characterises a professional conversation

- apply basic conversational skills

- be able to use open-ended questions simple and direct uppmuntran correct at at least a patient meeting

- be able to account for common reasons for that patients search the primary care

- reflect on why certain vårdmöten are perceived good respective less well of patient, family and staff

- be able to carry out a simple statusundersökning of heart, lungs and blood pressure

- be able to carry out venous sampling according to the basic hygienreglerna

- be able to account for what one should make if one happens knit or cut oneself

- be able to account for the basics of a scientific approach

- be able to account for how ethical problems be aktualisera in the care

- be able to account for how legal problems be aktualisera in the care as well as how they interact with ethical and scientific problems/considerations

- be familiar with the importance of his own background for his view on läkararbetet

- understand and process own reactions based on fictional texts and feature film

- understand the meaning of and be able to apply professional secrecy

Content

PD comes during T1 to concentrate oneself on conversation and interview technique with combined theoretical and practical exercises with inter alia videosamtal as well as basics of clinical basic skills regarding inter alia pulse and blood pressure measurement, pulmonary and cardiac auscultation. Furthermore, basic phlebotomy technique is trained. The basics of medical ethics and law as well as scientific approach are gone through. The importance of the culture for personal development is illustrated with theatre, film and literature.

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. Valid absence is disease or should be requested about and be justified in good time. It is the student's responsibility to contact teacher, supervisor or administratör for planning how missed components should be carried out.

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 tjänstgörigen in health care centres in 3 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.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.

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.