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This week I've had teaching on all the bits and pieces that are bundles together under the title of "Threads". I've been role-playing in Communication Skills, analysing papers in Evidence-Based Surgery, studying chemotherapy regimes in Oncology and debating controversial issues in Ethics. Some of the sessions have been useful - we've had pracise at speaking through an interpreter and some good tips on breaking bad news in Communication Skills (despite a cringeworthy performance from the sobbing actress who was receiving the bad news). Ethics has also been interesting. We covered consent and end-of-life issues this week, which involved a lecture on the law and the ethical principles behind it, followed by discussions based around cases.
As part of our Ethics assessment, we have to write a short essay based on a patient we've seen and the ethical issues surrounding their care. I'm thinking of writing mine about a man with learning disabilities who I met on my special study module, who was living alone with some help from carers and was rapidly increasing in obesity and deteriorating in health. He had been assessed by a psychologist as competent to make his own decisions about where he lives, but questions were raised as to whether he would be better off living in a home where he could have more help to stay healthy, as he appeared to have little insight into the consequences of his lifestyle.
Other parts of Threads have not been so thought-provoking. One lecture on patient safety stood out as mindnumbingly boring, and Evidence Based Surgery was simply a repeat of previous teaching we've had on Evidence Based Medicine, with the medical papers replaced by surgical ones. However, the teaching sessions haven't been particularly strenuous and I've had plenty of spare time to write an essay for an essay competition on issues related to student health that has been advertised to medical students, and to fit in some college-based tutorials.
This week I've had teaching on all the bits and pieces that are bundles together under the title of "Threads". I've been role-playing in Communication Skills, analysing papers in Evidence-Based Surgery, studying chemotherapy regimes in Oncology and debating controversial issues in Ethics. Some of the sessions have been useful - we've had pracise at speaking through an interpreter and some good tips on breaking bad news in Communication Skills (despite a cringeworthy performance from the sobbing actress who was receiving the bad news). Ethics has also been interesting. We covered consent and end-of-life issues this week, which involved a lecture on the law and the ethical principles behind it, followed by discussions based around cases.
As part of our Ethics assessment, we have to write a short essay based on a patient we've seen and the ethical issues surrounding their care. I'm thinking of writing mine about a man with learning disabilities who I met on my special study module, who was living alone with some help from carers and was rapidly increasing in obesity and deteriorating in health. He had been assessed by a psychologist as competent to make his own decisions about where he lives, but questions were raised as to whether he would be better off living in a home where he could have more help to stay healthy, as he appeared to have little insight into the consequences of his lifestyle.
Other parts of Threads have not been so thought-provoking. One lecture on patient safety stood out as mindnumbingly boring, and Evidence Based Surgery was simply a repeat of previous teaching we've had on Evidence Based Medicine, with the medical papers replaced by surgical ones. However, the teaching sessions haven't been particularly strenuous and I've had plenty of spare time to write an essay for an essay competition on issues related to student health that has been advertised to medical students, and to fit in some college-based tutorials.
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