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

Admission to medical studies.

For admission to term 3, all higher education credits from term 1 are required.

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 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.

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.