Undergraduate Course: HCP-Med: Process of Care 1 (MBCH10024)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh Medical School |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 90 |
ECTS Credits | 45 |
| Summary | HCP-Med: Process of Care 1: follows on from HCP-Med: Foundations of Medicine 1 and 2. It equips students with a solid foundation in the generalities of medical practice. Most of the knowledge-based curriculum will be presented online. Clinical experience will be gained through placements in a variety of secondary care settings as well as three sessions per week in general practice.
The course covers the fundamentals of how patients present, how the clinical team works, communication and consultation skills, and how clinical management is determined and implemented by healthcare teams, in partnership with the patient and their carers.
In hospital and primary care settings, students will put into practice the foundational knowledge and skills developed in HCP-Med: Foundations of Medicine 1 and 2. They will assess patients by taking clinical histories and clinical examination, they will propose and interpret investigations and formulate clinical management plans. The course emphasises a holistic, patient-centred approach, which recognises and addresses the physical, social and psychological dimensions of illness and wellbeing. |
| Course description |
HCP-Med: Process of Care 1 consists of 40 weeks of teaching and comprises three residential weeks, each of which include 41 hours of student effort. The remaining 37 weeks of include online teaching and time in clinical placements. The online/clinical weeks each involve 21 hours of student effort.
Teaching and learning includes the following approaches:
Online teaching has two broad aims:
(i) To present high quality resources which engage and challenge students and
(ii) To create and support a community of learning.
A range of teaching methods will be used:
- Each module will start with a video introduction, including the learning outcomes
- Pre-recorded narrated lectures, with slides which will cover the main learning points
- Discussion boards will be used for both general discussion and specific tasks
- Students will monitor their learning through frequent online quizzes
- Virtual tutorials will use problem-based or case-based learning
- Students will be provided with links to curated online resources
Residential weeks will include lectures, tutorials, group-work, workshops for communication skills and clinical skills, and practical demonstrations for anatomy.
General practices placements will use a variety of teaching methods:
(i) apprentice-style observation of surgeries, which will provide early exposure to a wide range of clinical cases and allow ad-hoc discussion of cases relevant to the online curriculum;
(ii) tutorials covering aspects of professional knowledge, skills and behaviours to complement online teaching; and
(iii) shadowing members of the primary care team to reinforce online teaching.
Other clinical placements will include teaching in outpatient clinics, wards, operating theatres, and sessions to learn about imaging and the work of investigative laboratories.
Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to develop self-directed learning, This will pose a challenge for the students and they will be supported in this approach. Clear guidance will be given so that students can prioritise their reading. Self-directed learning will be supplemented by interactive tutorials, online and often in clinical settings.
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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 2026/27, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
900
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 18,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
882 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
70 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
30 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
IN-COURSE ASSESSMENT (Must Pass)
ePortfolio: Students are required to submit a clinical portfolio and submit a variety of items to this throughout the year. This includes:
- Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) which cover the core aspects of clinical practice.
- Clinical skills sign offs
For the Professionalism requirement of the year, students must have satisfactory attendance and demonstrate professional behaviour in order to progress. This is required across teaching and placement throughout the course.
WRITTEN EXAM (70% weighting)
Students must undertake Paper 1 and Paper 2 of the Knowledge Test exam at the end of the year.
CLINICAL EXAM (30% weighting)
Students must undertake the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) at the end of the year.
PROGRESSION CRITERIA
Students must undertake the written, clinical exams and professionalism requirements in order to progress to Year 5 of the MBChB programme.
Professionalism: Students must complete all attachments, without any professionalism issues being raised. This requires students to:
- attend all teaching and learning sessions, all small-group sessions and those with patients or guest speakers, and all interactive sessions
- engage by submitting evidence of required learning and assessment activities on attachment, by submitting/ resubmitting all required portfolio items
- demonstrate professional conduct listed under the four GMC domains - Knowledge, skills and performance; Safety and Quality; Communication, partnership, and teamwork; Maintaining trust
If a placement raises a Concern/Issue about a student's professionalism (including attendance, engagement and professional conduct), the Board of Examiners will decide on any appropriate remediation. All Issues must have been satisfactorily addressed by the end of the course allow students to progress to Year 5 Process of Care 2.
RESIT OPPORTUNITY
If students do not progress from MBChB Year 4, they will have a further opportunity to repeat Year 4 as a second attempt the following academic year. |
| Feedback |
FEEDBACK ON FORMATIVE TASKS
All students will undertake two formative Knowledge Tests in Year 4. These will be undertaken online Students do not need to pass either of these Knowledge Tests, though undertaking them is compulsory.
FEEDBACK ON SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
This will be provided when in-course work is returned or, in the case of exams, after the Board of Examiners ratifies marks, and includes:
Knowledge Tests: Students will receive a performance report.
Clinical examination: Students will receive a performance report. |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Minutes |
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| Outwith Standard Exam Diets January | HCP- Med: Process of Care Paper 1 | 130 | | | Outwith Standard Exam Diets March | HCP- Med: Process of Care Paper 2 | 130 | | | Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | HCP- Med: Process of Care Paper 3 | 130 | | | Outwith Standard Exam Diets July | HCP - Med: Process of Care 1 Paper 4 | 130 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate appropriate generic personal and professional values and behaviours
- Demonstrate appropriate skills in clinical practice
- Demonstrate their knowledge through scholarly application to the care of patients in practice.
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Reading List
| Students will have access to the HCP-Med Resource List. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Newly qualified doctors will make the care of patients their first concern, applying their knowledge and skills in a competent, ethical and professional manner and taking responsibility for their own actions in complex and uncertain situations.
Newly qualified doctors will recognise biomedical, psychological and social science principles of health and disease, and integrate and apply scholarly principles to the care of patients. Newly qualified doctors will understand the patient journey through the full range of health and social care settings. |
| Keywords | medicine,medical-ethics,Human Physiology,Human anatomy,Medical Sociology,Evidence-based medicine |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Jen Kennedy
Tel:
Email: Jen.Kennedy@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Nicola McKay
Tel:
Email: nmckay3@ed.ac.uk |
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