University of Galway

Course Module Information

Course Modules

Semester 1 and Semester 2 | Credits: 20

This module complements MD 542 & MD 540 in preparing the graduating doctor to acquire and demonstrate the outcomes and competencies of the Undergraduate Medical Programme, with an emphasis on the principles of patient management and care. This module is delivered in semester 1 & 2 through clinical placements in core clinical specialities and subspecialities and supported by structured teaching activities.All outcomes need to be attained to the standard of a junior doctor prepared for internship
(Language of instruction: English)

Learning Outcomes
  1. Formulate a clinical management plan for acute and non-acute patients based on patient assessment and investigations
  2. Manage pre, peri and post-operative patients including consent, risk assessment and postoperative management
  3. Be situation aware and call for senior help in a timely manner
  4. Re-assess and re-evaluate patient response to treatment, prescribed medications and management plans in ongoing patient care
  5. Work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team (e.g. close-loop communication, teamwork, leadership, situation awareness, decision-making) utilising all available resources
  6. Communicate effectively in all areas i.e. with patients, colleagues, health care professionals, and in all media e.g. writing, electronically, by phone, in person, in the practice of medicine
  7. Use clinical judgement and decision-making skills in the ongoing clinical management of patients
  8. Apply principles of ethical reasoning, compliance with teh law, and professional behaviour in patient care
  9. Perform procedural skills required to manage patients
  10. Prescribe accurately and safely in all manner of prescriptions e.g. in-patient charts, discharge prescriptions, out-patient prescriptions
Assessments
  • Department-based Assessment (100%)
Teachers
Reading List
  1. "Textbook of Medicine" by Oxford
  2. "Textbook of Medicine" by Davidson’s
  3. "Lecture notes in General Surgery" by Ellis
  4. "Clinical Surgery" by Cuschieri
  5. "Essential Surgery" by Burkitt
  6. "Principles and Practices in Surgery" by Gardin
  7. "Clinical Medicine" by Kumar and Clark
  8. "Lecture Notes in Respiratory Medicine" by Wiley
  9. "Textbook of Anaesthesia" by Millers
  10. "Textbook of Pain Medicine" by Melzack and Wall’s
  11. "Textbook of Intensive Care Medicine" by Oh’s
  12. "Churchill's Pocketbook of Surgery" by Delbridge
  13. "Aids to undergraduate medicine" by Aids to undergraduate medicine
  14. "Undergraduate medicine MCQs" by Dunne & Flaherty
  15. "Medicine for Examinations" by Medicine for Examinations
  16. "Introduction to the symptoms & signs of surgical disease" by Browse
  17. "Hamilton Baileys Demonstration of Physical Signs in Clinical Surgery" by Hodder
  18. "MacLeods Clinical Examination" by Nicol
  19. "Clinical Skills" by Cox and Roper, Oxford
  20. "250 Cases in Clinical Medicine" by Baliga
  21. "Surgery" by Churchill Livingstone
  22. "Surgical Recall" by Blackbourne
  23. "Washington Manual of Surgery" by Lippincott
  24. "Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine" by Oxford University Press
  25. "Chest X-Ray Made Easy" by Churchill Livingstone
  26. "Clinical Examination: A Systemic Guide to Physical Examination" by Talley & O'Connor
  27. "MacLeod’s Clinical Examination" by Nicol
  28. "Clinical Skills" by Cox and Roper, Oxford
  29. "Lecture Notes on Clinical Skills" by Hatton and Blackwood
  30. "Oxford Handbook of Anaesthesia" by Oxford University Press
  31. "Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine for Medical Students" by RCSI press
  32. "Anaesthesia for Medical Students" by RCSI Publications
  33. "Chest X-Ray Made Easy" by Churchill Livingstone
  34. "Andreoli and Carpenter's Cecil essentials of medicine" by Andreoli Saunders
  35. "Davidsons Principles and Practice of medicine" by Colledge Churchill
  36. "textbook of medicine vols 1 - 3 OUP" by Oxford
  37. "Green's Operativef Hand Surgery" by Wolfe Churchill Livingstone
  38. "Total Burn Care" by Herndon Elsevier
  39. "Rook's Textbook of Dermatology" by Rook Wiley
  40. "Self Assessment Picture tests in Dermatology" by Kavanagh Mosby
  41. "Lecture Notes in Dermatology" by Graham-Brown Wiley
  42. "Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery" by Giele OUP
  43. "See Oxford Medical Handbooks Online at NUIG" by Oxford handbook of medicine
  44. "Macleod's Clinical Examination" by Macleod Elsevier
  45. "Clinical Skills" by Cox & Roper OUP
  46. "Medicine for examinations" by Epstein Churchill Livingstone
  47. "Essential Haematology" by Hoffbrand Wiley
  48. "Haematology: Clinical Cases Uncovered" by Mc Cann Wiley
  49. "Clinical radiology for medical students" by Roberts Butterworth Heinemann
  50. "Radiology and Imaging for medical students" by Sutton Churchill Livingstone
  51. "Rheumatology: primer on the rheumatic diseases" by Klippel
  52. "Pocketbook of Orthopaedics and fractures" by McRae Churchill Livingstone
The above information outlines module MD541: "Advanced Clinical Management" and is valid from 2023 onwards.
Note: Module offerings and details may be subject to change.