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MD541: Advanced Clinical Management
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
- Formulate a clinical management plan for acute and non-acute patients based on patient assessment and investigations
- Manage pre, peri and post-operative patients including consent, risk assessment and postoperative management
- Be situation aware and call for senior help in a timely manner
- Re-assess and re-evaluate patient response to treatment, prescribed medications and management plans in ongoing patient care
- Work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team (e.g. close-loop communication, teamwork, leadership, situation awareness, decision-making) utilising all available resources
- 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
- Use clinical judgement and decision-making skills in the ongoing clinical management of patients
- Apply principles of ethical reasoning, compliance with teh law, and professional behaviour in patient care
- Perform procedural skills required to manage patients
- 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
- GRACE CLARKE:
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- ELEANOR MCCARRICK:
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- PETER MC CARTHY:
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- SARAH BRENNAN:
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Reading List
- "Textbook of Medicine" by Oxford
- "Textbook of Medicine" by Davidson’s
- "Lecture notes in General Surgery" by Ellis
- "Clinical Surgery" by Cuschieri
- "Essential Surgery" by Burkitt
- "Principles and Practices in Surgery" by Gardin
- "Clinical Medicine" by Kumar and Clark
- "Lecture Notes in Respiratory Medicine" by Wiley
- "Textbook of Anaesthesia" by Millers
- "Textbook of Pain Medicine" by Melzack and Wall’s
- "Textbook of Intensive Care Medicine" by Oh’s
- "Churchill's Pocketbook of Surgery" by Delbridge
- "Aids to undergraduate medicine" by Aids to undergraduate medicine
- "Undergraduate medicine MCQs" by Dunne & Flaherty
- "Medicine for Examinations" by Medicine for Examinations
- "Introduction to the symptoms & signs of surgical disease" by Browse
- "Hamilton Baileys Demonstration of Physical Signs in Clinical Surgery" by Hodder
- "MacLeods Clinical Examination" by Nicol
- "Clinical Skills" by Cox and Roper, Oxford
- "250 Cases in Clinical Medicine" by Baliga
- "Surgery" by Churchill Livingstone
- "Surgical Recall" by Blackbourne
- "Washington Manual of Surgery" by Lippincott
- "Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine" by Oxford University Press
- "Chest X-Ray Made Easy" by Churchill Livingstone
- "Clinical Examination: A Systemic Guide to Physical Examination" by Talley & O'Connor
- "MacLeod’s Clinical Examination" by Nicol
- "Clinical Skills" by Cox and Roper, Oxford
- "Lecture Notes on Clinical Skills" by Hatton and Blackwood
- "Oxford Handbook of Anaesthesia" by Oxford University Press
- "Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine for Medical Students" by RCSI press
- "Anaesthesia for Medical Students" by RCSI Publications
- "Chest X-Ray Made Easy" by Churchill Livingstone
- "Andreoli and Carpenter's Cecil essentials of medicine" by Andreoli Saunders
- "Davidsons Principles and Practice of medicine" by Colledge Churchill
- "textbook of medicine vols 1 - 3 OUP" by Oxford
- "Green's Operativef Hand Surgery" by Wolfe Churchill Livingstone
- "Total Burn Care" by Herndon Elsevier
- "Rook's Textbook of Dermatology" by Rook Wiley
- "Self Assessment Picture tests in Dermatology" by Kavanagh Mosby
- "Lecture Notes in Dermatology" by Graham-Brown Wiley
- "Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery" by Giele OUP
- "See Oxford Medical Handbooks Online at NUIG" by Oxford handbook of medicine
- "Macleod's Clinical Examination" by Macleod Elsevier
- "Clinical Skills" by Cox & Roper OUP
- "Medicine for examinations" by Epstein Churchill Livingstone
- "Essential Haematology" by Hoffbrand Wiley
- "Haematology: Clinical Cases Uncovered" by Mc Cann Wiley
- "Clinical radiology for medical students" by Roberts Butterworth Heinemann
- "Radiology and Imaging for medical students" by Sutton Churchill Livingstone
- "Rheumatology: primer on the rheumatic diseases" by Klippel
- "Pocketbook of Orthopaedics and fractures" by McRae Churchill Livingstone
Note: Module offerings and details may be subject to change.