MDSA30270 Preparing to Solve Integrated Clinical Problems for Professional Exams

Academic Year 2022/2023

In this module medical students will learn how to enrol in and prepare for professional multiple choice examinations by synthesising knowledge and skills learnt in a variety of preclinical modules in order to solve clinical problems. They will learn how to approach different types of problems, how to appraise potential solutions, how to access resources, how to identify content themes that are currently, or are likely to become popular with examiners and how to move from a diagnosis back to the specific biomedical science underpinning the condition.

Students on MDS2 (Medicine) and MDS9 (Graduate Entry Medicine) will attend the module as audit but will not gain any credit for it.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

Biomedical knowledge: Having successfully completed this module, students should be able to apply the biomedical knowledge learnt in other preclinical modules to determine the likely diagnosis in a variety of virtual case vignettes. They should be able identify clinical, demographic, and natural history features that, in conjunction with investigations and response to therapeutic intervention will allow discrimination between similar clinical conditions. They should be able to identify the features of clinical conditions that lend themselves to incorporation into exam material. Having arrived at a diagnosis they should be able to place the case in a detailed scientific context.

Professionalism: Having successfully completed this module, students will have demonstrated and improved their capacity to collate and appraise resources and where appropriate to work in groups to optimise efficiency and motivation.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

60

Specified Learning Activities

5

Autonomous Student Learning

55

Total

120

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Not yet recorded 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Learning Recommendations:

Students should have a basic understanding of the organisation of cells, tissues and organs into organisms and the biomolecular processes underpinning cellular structure, function, communication and multicellular organisation and the diseases that derange these processes.

Students should also have some knowledge of clinical context in which the module content may ultimately be applied.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Equivalents:
Integrated Clinical Problems (PATH30110)


 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Multiple Choice Questionnaire: MCQ Varies over the Trimester n/a Not yet recorded No

50

Multiple Choice Questionnaire: MCQ End of trimester MCQ n/a Not yet recorded No

50


Carry forward of passed components
Not yet recorded
 

Not yet recorded

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
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Name Role
Dr Fiona McGillicuddy Tutor