Postgraduate Course: Locomotor System (SURG11003)
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 course presents a number of example cases in the acute trauma setting, covering ATLS principles, and management of trauma and orthopaedic patients |
| Course description |
Through self-directed learning, online content will deliver key concepts relating to the locomotor system. Students will be required to work through weekly online activities, including discussion boards, and formative MCQ quizzes
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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 |
Semester 2 |
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) |
Coursework (100%)
*Online MCQs (50%)
*Discussion boards (50%)
University Common Marking Scheme (PG) will be applied
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| Feedback |
Assessment is undertaken throughout the course with each element structured to provide opportunities for formative feedback at key points: asynchronous tutor feedback on weekly discussion boards; immediate feedback on formative MCQs. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the relevant basic scientific principles for common surgical procedures relating to diseases of the locomotor system, and treatment of patients with multiple injuries
- Apply the core principles of primary and secondary patient assessment, determine priorities in trauma patients, and recommend care during the primary and secondary surveys
- Differentiate the management and assessment of paediatric versus adult patients
- Communicate with peers, more senior colleagues and specialists
- Apply critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis to issues which are informed by developments at the forefront of orthopaedic surgery
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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
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| Keywords | Orthopaedic Surgery; Locomotor System; Plastic Surgery |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Susan Morrow
Tel:
Email: Susan.Morrow@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Edward Gamble
Tel: (0131 6)51 4929
Email: egamble@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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