Postgraduate Course: Responding to an emerging disease: Lessons from COVID-19 (CRCA11016)
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 is short format 10 credit course that explores the critical care response to an emerging disease using our experience of the COVID-19 pandemic as a focus. Students will explore COVID-19 as a disease and begin to understand how clinicians respond to a lack of evidence, and how clinical practice changes as evidence emerges and is considered by the wider critical care community. |
| Course description |
1) Academic description
This course combines learning on the clinical aspects of COVID-19 with detailed exploration of how we translate evidence into clinical care rapidly: examining the current systems that exist for the translation of evidence into practice and the challenges that are faced when these systems cannot respond rapidly to a new clinical entity.
2) Outline content
Students will learn what is meant by epidemics, pandemics, and emerging diseases and the systems that are set up nationally and internationally to respond. Students will learn about relevant critical care aspects of COVID-19 including pathophysiology, epidemiology, and surge planning.
A major focus will be on trying to provide the best care for your patients where evidence is lacking and when there are divergent views on best practice.
Students will explore the many sources of clinical information and learn how to appraise these.
3) Student learning experience
This course has been put together to allow students to study flexibly. Learning materials for the whole course will be made available to students on Learn for the entire duration of the course run. These materials will be supplemented with a live online session that will be delivered on more than one occasion to allow students to hear from experts, engage in discussion, and ask questions.
The course will comprise themed sections and students will be expected to produce written work corresponding to each section. These will be collected together and form the written assessment for the whole course.
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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 2021/22, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Flexible |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
98 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% in course assessment |
| Feedback |
Feedback is defined as information to students which allows them to review what they know, understand and can do in their studies. Feedback is also important to identify areas for improvement, for example course feedback surveys will be an integral component of the programme to allow refinement.
A discussion board will be open on Learn during the course run to allow students to raise concerns and queries. Before the live teaching session, we will hold a live question and answer to help students get the most from the content.
Assignments will be marked, and feedback will be provided within a period of fifteen working days (where possible) following the submission date (excluding holidays periods whereby the University is closed, e.g. over the Christmas period). |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Gain an in-depth understanding of emerging diseases
- Understand how the critical care community responds to emerging diseases
- Be able to apply knowledge of the hierarchies of evidence in times of clinical uncertainty
- Be able to describe current and explore possible future models of information-sharing in modern medicine
- Understand how the emergence of a new disease can transform clinicians¿ approach to clinical care
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
a) Mindsets:
Enquiry and lifelong learning:
Graduates of this course will be encouraged to pursue their own curiosity and to learn and develop in the field of critical care, to strive for excellence in their own professional practice, and to strive to improve care for patients as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Aspiration and personal development
Students will be encouraged to draw on their own experiences to identify areas in which they wish to grow and develop acknowledging that different students will have different priorities and aspirations.
Outlook and engagement
Students will be asked to bring to the course experiences from their own practice, often specifically relating to their own geographical context, that can be used to explore learning, engage with individuals from other international communities on the programme.
b) Skills:
Research and enquiry
Students will not conduct primary research in this course, they will use and further develop newly acquired expertise in accessing the literature and critical appraisal, to incorporate the findings of primary research in their arguments, discussions, and assessments.
Personal and intellectual autonomy
Students will be encouraged to use their own personal and intellectual autonomy through their active participation in self-directed learning, discussion boards and collaborative activities to critically evaluate ideas evidence and experiences from an open-minded perspective.
Personal effectiveness
Success on the course will require students to be effective and proactive learners. Using the resources of the course tutors, and the university learning and information environment, students will be encouraged and supported to contribute to their own learning, as well as that of others.
Communication
Excellence in critical care is dependent on excellent communication, and the structure of the interactive elements and assessment elements incorporate constant reinforcement and development of this skill. |
| Keywords | COVID-19,Pandemic,Evidence Based Medicine,Critical Care |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr John Livesey
Tel:
Email: v1jlives@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Olga Paterson
Tel: (0131) 242 6130
Email: Olga.Paterson@ed.ac.uk |
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