2018 Cohort MD153 (18/19)
The GMC requires Medical Schools to allocate approximately 10% of the curriculum to the SSC, with the remainder being allocated to the core. In contrast to the prescriptive, competency-based focus of Blocks within the core curriculum, SSCs provide opportunities to acquire intellectual and attitudinal attributes in preparation for professional life and life-long learning.
2017 Cohort
In Core Clinical Education, you will spend most of your time in the clinical environment, building upon the theoretical material learned in earlier years and applying it in a practical clinical context. To facilitate your learning, you will be attached to partnerships of consultants drawn from a wide range of clinical specialties.
You will also continue to develop your clinical skills, using them with patients in a supervised environment on a day-to-day basis.
Learning opportunities include attendance at ward rounds, outpatient clinics, multidisciplinary team meetings, operating theatres, diagnostic imaging and laboratory sessions. You will also be involved in out of hours and on-call clinical experience.
You should use every clinical experience as a learning opportunity and reflect upon it in order to develop clinical skills, understanding, and performance.
2017 Cohort
During the CCE blocks, students will spend one Friday per fortnight at the WMS Gibbet Hill Campus - the Academic Day. This day will include Case-Based Learning (CBL) sessions around which other learning is structured. Each Case will conclude a fortnight after it commences, allowing didactic teaching, workshops and self-directed learning around the case during the intervening period. Registers will be taken twice during academic days - during CBL and Group work and for lecture attendance.
Fifteen Academic Days will be held throughout the full 30 weeks of CCE, five per CCE block (CCE1, CCE2 and CCE3). Typically, CBL will take place in the mornings and plenary lectures will take place after lunch.
2017 Cohort
The SSC 2 Block will give you the opportunity to undertake a project (research, audit or service evaluation) and attend a series of lectures and seminars supporting the development of your enquiry and research skills.
2015 Cohort
Welcome to the Assistantship block, which is designed to give you opportunities to increase your confidence and competence before you start as an F1 doctor. This 8-week block is based in our local trusts and aims to get you familiar with the common, generic skills and tasks that will be required of you as a junior doctor, through a combination of teaching and supervised learning opportunities.
MD913
This module will help you to gain a systematic understanding of the key issues in the design, statistical analysis and interpretation of the common types of epidemiological study.
- This module builds on the material covered by the module Epidemiology and Statistics (a prerequisite unless you can show evidence of equivalent knowledge/expertise), allowing you to further develop your research skills
- Learn about issues in the design, analysis and interpretation of: case-control studies; cohort studies; randomized controlled trials; and trial data meta-analyses
- Also, other practical issues in common epidemiological study designs (such as survey methods)
- This further module is of particular relevance to those studying a Masters in Public Health (MPH) and an MSc Research Methods in Health Sciences for whom Epidemiology and Statistics is a core module.