General provisions

Aim: Course that runs through the whole education and during semester 4 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, medical psychology, professional attitude as well as personal development and leadership/team work.

Entry requirements

For admission to term 4, all higher education credits from terms 1 and 2 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 3 should:

-be able to identify additional factors that influence the patient-physician communication such as at conversation via interpreter, study of children and old where the individual can not bring his own claim but communicate via attorney

-be able to summarise and evaluate basic legal requirements with respect to quality assurance in the care, science and proven experience as well as clinical research

-be able to relate examples of the importance of the role of physician as leader in the daily medical work

-be able to relate to and understand the importance of interprofessionell cooperation

- be able to the basics of the diagnostic process

- be able to carry out basic skin condition and assess alläntillstånd

- be familiar with the basics of psychological treatment/treatment after difficult life changes as well as be able to apply a biopsychosocial view to describe medical problems

Content

PD comes the four first semesters to concentrate oneself on conversational skills, communication, professional attitude, medical psychology, clinical basic skills as medical history and statustagande as well as medical ethics and law and scientific approach. Introduction to leadership education as well as to medical psychology is communicated. Furthermore, abdominal status is trained. Teaching is given about the diagnostic process in skin condition as well as assessment of allmänillstånd. An exercise where example of interprofessionellt cooperation dokumternas and be discussed in seminar together with the nursing programme.

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 3 days are required.

Individual practical examination takes place last on the semester according to OSCE model (objective structured clinical examination). The examination takes place with patient of clinical skills, medical history, statustagande and professional attitude.

Examining seminar cross-professional caring process together with the nursing programme. Interprofessionellt learning.

Examination of medical psychology consists of attendance and active participation in final overview of home assignment. Students who are absent at the examination or may failed participation in the examination is offered the possibility to hand in the home assignment in writing. The assignment should be submitted and passed before semester 4 has been completed.

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.

For regulatory framework about absence from compulsory parts and rules for participation in examination, see the programme syllabus in the students' guide.

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 not become passed in clinical training have a right to undergo renewed clinical placement once. Practical tests are seen as a part in the clinical training and the possibility to go through a renewed practical test is thereby limited to once. If special circumstances apply, the programme committee can admit additional occasion to go through clinical training.