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DRPS : Course Catalogue : Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences : Global Health

Postgraduate Course: Reflective Practice and Principles of General Practice Part 2 (GLHE11028)

Course Outline
SchoolDeanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences CollegeCollege of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)
Course typeOnline Distance Learning AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis second part of the course continues to encourage the students to reflect on key elements of good patient-centered care. Three of the five sections focus on good consultation and communication with patients, the central skills required of good family medicine, and these sections require the student to reflect on their current practice, and try some new techniques. The final sections give students tools to practice in an ethical manner, and make good ethical decisions and to reflect on the continual improvement of care provision, and how this may be achieved.
Course description 1. Communication and Consultation Skills 1

2. Communication and Consultation Skills 2

3. Communication and Consultation Skills 3

4. Ethics in clinical practice

5. Leadership and quality improvement in clinical practice
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. adopt a more patient-centered attitude to consultation with patients and put into practice techniques in consultation and communication which facilitate this
  2. understand bioethical dilemmas and take decisions appropriately
  3. provide leadership in the family medicine team
  4. understand the processes behind quality improvement techniques and implement good practice evidence based systems through audit, significant event analysis and review
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsFamily Medicine principles and practice resilience and health assets
Contacts
Course organiserDr Robin Ramsay
Tel:
Email: robin.ramsay@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Michelle Hart
Tel: (0131 6)50 6525
Email: michelle.hart@ed.ac.uk
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