MDCS42140

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of the module, a student should be able to:

- Perform clinical examination of patients with a wide range of musculoskeletal complaints competently and enhance these skills further.
- Have gained practical experience of Orthopedic secondary care environments.
- Use their experiences on clinical placement to reflect on their own clinical practice.
- Critically appraise the literature around specific musculoskeletal issues and summarise it in the form of case reviews.

Indicative Module Content:

Clinical placements will occur in multiple clinics over two clinical sites to give a wide variety of experiences.

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Module delivery will involve 80 hours of clinical placements over 14 weeks.
Throughout the module self directed and group learning willl be used as a model for life-long Continual professional development.
Generative artifical intelligence, or other machine learning technologies should not be used by students in their submissions for this module.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Learning Requirements:

Applicants should:
• Hold an undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject (e.g. Medicine, Nursing & Midwifery, Physiotherapy, etc)
• Possess an equivalent professional qualification, or
• Have relevant clinical experience in orthopaedics, primary care, or physiotherapy.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Grades from online assessments will be available online. Peer feedback relating to Group projects will be given on the same day. Case reports will be given regular feedback in person/audio/video or written formats at regular intervals.