Postgraduate Course: Respiratory (IMED11013)
Course Outline
| School | Deanery of Clinical Sciences |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This 10-credit course allows students to develop a deeper level of knowledge and understanding in the speciality area of respiratory medicine, and covers topics such as presentation and investigation of lung disease, infections, airways and pulmonary vascular disease, and lung cancer. |
| Course description |
Individual speciality tutors will use increasingly complex clinical case studies to broaden knowledge. They will guide students to appropriate seminal publications in their speciality and encourage them to present and review recent journal article in a group setting (online journal club). Online publication review forms will also be used to assess of literature evaluation skills. Historically important, controversial, topical and novel papers will be discussed. Students¿ writing skills will also be enhanced through summative assessment (ePoster presentation).
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2018/19, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 5,
Online Activities 30,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
63 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Formal summative written assessment (e-poster)- will constitute 100% of the student's grade. Students will be expected to give peer feedback to at least 2 peers. Failure to do so will see 5% penalty. |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the basic science underpinning the causes of and clinical presentation of common respiratory conditions
- Appraise the pathophysiology of lung malignancy, and evaluate the role of endoscopic US techniques in diagnosis and staging of lung cancer
- Diagnose and formulate management plans for common respiratory conditions seen in acute/internal medicine
- Critically assess medical research in order to identity its strengths, weaknesses and how it might be applied in respiratory medicine
- Apply critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis to produce an ePoster on a respiratory-related topic
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Reading List
| Key articles will be referred to at relevant points during the course. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Within the work to be undertaken this course will provide participants with the opportunity to develop or further develop key graduate attributes:
¿ In-depth knowledge of specialist discipline
¿ Develop new understanding by exercising critical judgement and challenging knowledge
¿ Be a self-directed learner
¿ Solve problems effectively taking ethical, professional and environmental issues into account
¿ Use information responsibly in a range of contexts
¿ Collaborate with others, capitalising on their different thinking, experience and skills
¿ Communicate (oral, written, online) effectively, respectful of social and cultural diversity
¿ Application of numeracy
¿ Application of IT |
| Keywords | Respiratory,Chest disease |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Simon Maxwell
Tel: (0131) 537 2506
Email: S.Maxwell@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Krislyn McWilliams-Biles
Tel: (0131 5)37 2506
Email: kmcwill3@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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