Plymouth

Question 1

What are the local hospitals at Plymouth med school?

Answer 1

Benefit from close relationships with our principal NHSpartners– University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and local General Practices

Question 2

What are the facilities?

Answer 2

Clinical Skills Resource Centre (CSRC) - which features specially designed replicas of hospital wards and emergency rooms, with high-specification patient-simulators.

Life Sciences Resource Centre (LSRC) - the structure and functionality of the human body

Question 3

Why Plymouth?

Answer 3

• Benefit from close relationships with our principal NHSpartners
• Learn from real patients from the outset
  -SSU Special Study Units

Question 4

What is the Plymouth Integrative Health and Social Care Education Centre (PIHC) and its elements?

Answer 4

• ensure students graduate with the skills and knowledge required for collaborative working in health, social care, and many other careers
  -> Interprofessional learning
  -> PIHC Connect
  -> PIHC Synergy
  -> Tea-Time Teaching

Question 5

What is PIHC Connect ?

Answer 5

A series of recorded episodes that follow a patient’s journey providing an inter-professional learning experience for students

Question 6

What is PIHC Synergy?

Answer 6

A series of events that brings students together to think about key issues. aiming to drive interprofessional working and learning across the faculty.

PIHC Synergy sessions will bring professionals, academics, and students together to discuss topics such as dementia, oral cancer and sustainability in health and social care.

Question 7

What is inter-professional learning?

Answer 7

• where professions learn with, from and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care’

Question 8

Why is inter-professional learning important?

Answer 8

• patients or service users interact with multiple health and social care professionals.
• It has become particularly important in the context of an aging population with increasingly complex, co-morbid conditions that cannot be treated by any single profession.
• The introduction of interprofessional learning into the workplace and the training of new healthcare professionals has been linked to improved clinical decision-making and standards of practice (Darlow et al, 2015).

Question 9

method of teaching?

Answer 9

Spiral curriculum
Structured small groups
Enquire based learning
integrsted

Question 10

What is a spiral curriculum?

Answer 10

which means many concepts taught over medical school are revisited throughout your time at medical school, this is taught over a mix of EBL and lectures.

where concepts met at a basic level in the first turn of the spiral will be revisited later in more detail and with
greater clinical focus.

Question 11

How is anatomy delivered?

Answer 11

anatomy is learnt over LSRC sessions where students learn with real-life models, anatomical models, and the Anatomage table which is the only fully segmented real human 1:1 3D anatomy system. This can allow learning anatomy and physiology without the use of a cadaver and beyond traditional learning methods. Additionally, this can be booked by the student to supplement their self-directed learning.