BI3CS3: Clinical Skills

Module code: BI3CS3

Module provider: School of Biological Sciences

Credits: 20

Level: Level 3 (Honours)

When you'll be taught: Semester 1 / 2

Module convenor: Dr Lindsey Thompson, email: lindsey.thompson@reading.ac.uk

Module co-convenor: Dr Dyan Sellayah, email: d.sellayah@reading.ac.uk

Pre-requisite module(s):

Co-requisite module(s):

Pre-requisite or Co-requisite module(s):

Module(s) excluded:

Placement information: NA

Academic year: 2024/5

Available to visiting students: Yes

Talis reading list: No

Last updated: 21 May 2024

Overview

Module aims and purpose

This module leads on from BI2SPH2 Skills in Public Health. This skills-focussed module aims to provide you with an opportunity to enhance and demonstrate clinical and scientific skills gained from previous years, in a clinical context. This module will utilise problem base learning activities in a medical context to provide you with an authentic clinical education experience. You will go beyond clinical care at a patient level and discuss how healthcare provision at a community, local and national levels are undertaken, including with input from local and national governments and NGOs. This module will also enable you to take an international outlook on health challenges, including the influence of socioeconomic and demographic factors on clinical outcomes and public health statistics.  

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module, it is expected that students will be able to: 

1. Discuss how healthcare delivery is achieved at the patient, local and national level  
2. Discuss how socioeconomic and demographic factors may impact of clinical outcomes and influence public health metrics  
3. Discuss the complexities of major global health challenges and demonstrate how they may be combatted through multi-disciplinary approaches.  

Module content

The module will take an integrated approach to studying national and global health challenges.  

Lecture material will include the following topics: 

• Pandemics  
• Non-communicable diseases in the developing world 
• Public health disparities  
• Climate and public health  
• Public health strategies  
• Local and national healthcare provision  
• Global healthcare structures 

Structure

Teaching and learning methods

The learning outcomes will be met through a mixture of lectures, tutorials, peer-learning, active learning, problem-based learning, flip learning, self-directed learning and directed independent study.  Students will be given the opportunity to make and justify decisions in authentic assessment scenarios and group activities. Some clinical placements will be offered and students will spend time in the clinical suite to replicate a hospital ward environment. Appropriate supplementary information and reading lists will be provided on Blackboard. 

Study hours

At least 40 hours of scheduled teaching and learning activities will be delivered in person, with the remaining hours for scheduled and self-scheduled teaching and learning activities delivered either in person or online. You will receive further details about how these hours will be delivered before the start of the module.

Please note the independent study hours above are notional numbers of hours; each student will approach studying in different ways. We would advise you to reflect on your learning and the number of hours you are allocating to these tasks.

Semester 1 The hours in this column may include hours during the Christmas holiday period.

Semester 2 The hours in this column may include hours during the Easter holiday period.

Summer The hours in this column will take place during the summer holidays and may be at the start and/or end of the module.

Assessment

Requirements for a pass

Students need to achieve an overall module mark of 40% to pass this module.

Summative assessment

Penalties for late submission of summative assessment

The Support Centres will apply the following penalties for work submitted late:

Assessments with numerical marks

• where the piece of work is submitted after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): 10% of the total marks available for that piece of work will be deducted from the mark for each working day (or part thereof) following the deadline up to a total of three working days;
• the mark awarded due to the imposition of the penalty shall not fall below the threshold pass mark, namely 40% in the case of modules at Levels 4-6 (i.e. undergraduate modules for Parts 1-3) and 50% in the case of Level 7 modules offered as part of an Integrated Masters or taught postgraduate degree programme;
• where the piece of work is awarded a mark below the threshold pass mark prior to any penalty being imposed, and is submitted up to three working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline), no penalty shall be imposed;
• where the piece of work is submitted more than three working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): a mark of zero will be recorded.

Assessments marked Pass/Fail

• where the piece of work is submitted within three working days of the deadline (or any formally agreed extension of the deadline): no penalty will be applied;
• where the piece of work is submitted more than three working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension of the deadline): a grade of Fail will be awarded.

The University policy statement on penalties for late submission can be found at: https://www.reading.ac.uk/cqsd/-/media/project/functions/cqsd/documents/qap/penaltiesforlatesubmission.pdf

You are strongly advised to ensure that coursework is submitted by the relevant deadline. You should note that it is advisable to submit work in an unfinished state rather than to fail to submit any work.

Formative assessment

Formative assessment is any task or activity which creates feedback (or feedforward) for you about your learning, but which does not contribute towards your overall module mark.

Reassessment

Additional costs