Postgraduate Course: Pre-operative Assessment and Peri-operative Care (SURG11004)
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 covers the importance of good pre-operative assessment in allowing students to identify and communicate to the patient the likely risks associated with their surgery, and plan techniques to minimise those risks, including perioperative monitoring, recovery, and post-operative management |
| Course description |
Through self-directed learning, online content will deliver key concepts relating to pre-/peri-/post-operative assessment and management, including anaesthesia, analgesia, and cardiovascular management. Students will be required to work through weekly online activities, including discussion boards and formative MCQ quizzes. Students will submit a mini-essay relating to a patient scenario
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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 1 |
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 (25%)
*Discussion boards (50%)
*Mini-essay (25%)
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. Feedback on the mini-essay will be issued within the 15-day turnaround for marking rule |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the general principles of preoperative assessment and investigation of the surgical patient
- Evaluate procedure risk and patient risk in the emergency versus elective surgical patient
- Summarise the principles of anaesthesia and perioperative monitoring
- Recognise measures to optimise intra-operative safety, including thrombo- and antibiotic- prophylaxis
- Apply the principles of recovery and post-operative management of the surgical patient
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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 | Pre-operative assessment; peri-operative monitoring; postoperative management |
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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