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Professionalism

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The set of values, behaviours and relationships that underpin the trust the public has in doctors

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GMC regulatory role?

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To protect, promote and maintain health of the public by ensuring proper standards of care and practice of medicine

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Clinical reasoning

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Sorting through a cluster of features presented by a patient and accurately assigning a diagnostic label with the development of an appropriate treatment strategy as the end goal

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What is patient centred care?

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Care that is responsive to the wants, needs and preferences of the patient

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Define the sick role

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It states the rights and responsibilities for patient and doctors when they have a consultation

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What is evidence?

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A body of facts/information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid

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Define economics

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Economics is about how people allocate scarce resources amongst competing activities

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Define opportunity cost

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The loss of other alternatives for which alternative is chosen

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What are meta-ethics?

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The study of moral concepts e.g. right or wrong

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What is normative ethics? (Moral theory)

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Study of the means of deciding what is right and wrong

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What is applied ethics?

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Application of moral theory

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What is consequentialism?

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Moral based on the consequence of the action

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What is deontology? (Duty based)

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Moral based on actions, adherence to the rules regardless of the outcome

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What is virtue ethics?

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The right action is one a virtuous person would do

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What is autonomy?

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Respect the patient as an individual to make choices

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What is non-maleficence?

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Do no harm to patients

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What is beneficence?

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Acting in a way that positively benefits the patient

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What is justice?

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Treating people fairly and equally

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What is paternalism?

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Interference with a persons freedom of action/information

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What is coercion?

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Persuading a patient to do something by force of threats e.g. forcing to eat

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What is misinformation?

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Lying to save from distress

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What is the Bolam test?

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Test of negligence which determines standard of care

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What is the bolitho amendment?

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Doctors should behave in a logical way

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What is epidemiology?

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Study of incidence, distribution and control of diseases in populations

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What is incidence?
New cases of disease (over) number initially free of disease
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What is prevalence?
Number of people with a disease at a particular point in time (over) total population
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What is illness behaviour?
The way in which symptoms may be differently perceived, evaluated and acted upon by different kinds of persons
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What is health promotion?
The process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health
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What is health persuasion?
Includes mass media campaigns e.g. sexual health and healthy eating (5-a-day campaign)
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What is legislative action?
Passing a law to promote health e.g. laws that subsidise the price of healthy food, sugar tax
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What is personal counselling?
Opportunistic prevention in consultations e.g. working with a dietician on food/diet
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What is community development?
Locally based initiatives e.g. communities producing and distributing food themselves
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What is health education?
Learning experiences designed to facilitate voluntary actions conductive to health
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What is health protection?
Legislation to protect public health e.g. seat belts and not smoking in public
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What is a prevention paradox?
A preventative measure which brings much benefit to the population but offers little to each participating individual
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What is advocacy for health?
A combination of individual and social actions designed to gain political commitment, policy support, social acceptance and systems support for a particular health goal or programme
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What is empowerment for health?
In health promotion, empowerment is a process through which people gain greater control over decisions and actions affecting their health
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What is enabling? (health promotion)
In health promotion, enabling means taking action in partnership with individuals or groups to empower them to promote and protect their health
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What is health literacy?
Health literacy represents the cognitive and social skills which determine the motivation and ability of individuals to gain access to, understand and use information in ways which promote and maintain good health
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What is culture?
A system of knowledge, experience, belief, attitudes, meanings, signs and symbols shared by a group of people
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What is enculturation?
Process of learning your own groups culture
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What is acculturation?
Process of taking on another groups culture
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What is a diagnosis?
Determining the nature of a disorder by considering the patients signs and symptoms, medical background and test results
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What is prognosis?
Assessment of future course of patients disease and management
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What is broad evidence?
Any factor that can and should influence clinical decision making
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What is narrow evidence?
Results of rigorous clinical trials and observational studies
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What is the hierarchy of evidence?
Lists the types of study design ranked in order of their perceived ability to provide evidence for use in practice
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What is consent?
Voluntary agreement given by a competent patient that has been fully informed
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What is battery?
If a person touches another person without consent
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What is negligence?
The concept of failure to exercise care
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What is capacity?
Determined by a physician, refers to an assessment of the individuals ability to understand, appreciate and manipulate information to form rational decisions
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What is Gillick competency?
A child (under 16) can consent to medical treatment if deemed competent by a medical professional, without need for parental permission or knowledge
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What is a POM?
Prescription only medicine
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What is a P drug?
Can be obtained from a pharmacy under the supervision of a pharmacist
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What are OTC drugs?
Over the counter
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Who are the MHRA?
Medicines and healthcare regulatory authority
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What are descriptive statistics?
Data is collected and summarised and described in terms of means, SDs etc.
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What is ecological fallacy?
Inferences about nature of individuals are deduced from interference for the group to which they belong
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What are inferential statistics?
Using statistical tests to make generalisations about a population
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What is nominal data?
Categorical e.g. sex
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What is ordinal data?
Categories ordered in value e.g. degree of pain
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What is interval data?
Continuous data with equal intervals e.g. height, weight, age
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What is a hypothesis?
An idea expressed in such a way that it can be tested and refuted
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What is a null hypothesis?
The hypothesis that there is no difference between the two groups
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What is a P value?
The probability that the difference between groups would be as big or bigger than that observed if the null hypothesis is true
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What is a confidence interval?
Range of values that we think contain the mean
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What are confidence limits?
The actual upper and lower boundaries that state the boundaries of the confidence interval
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What are measures of location?
Mean: - average of all observations Median: - midpoint of the data set Mode: - most frequent observation
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What are measures of dispersion?
- standard deviation - interquartile range - range

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