Cardiff

Question 1

What is the interprofessional learning aspect of the course at Cardiff?

Answer 1

• Multidisciplinary learning where you learn alongside students from specialties such as Pharmacy and Optometry. This will allow you to learn a wider range of clinical skills and how to get the best results for your patient.
• Year 2: you will also learn from doctors and paramedics how to respond in an emergency via a realistic rural traffic accident situation.

Question 2

How do they teach CBL?

Answer 2

• Combination of small group learning, co-ordinated lectures, clinical placements, clinical skills training and self-directed study.
• Spiral curriculum.
• Research-led teaching, opportunities for involvement.

Question 3

What is harmonisation?

Answer 3

• Innovative final year that smooths the transition from medical student to NHS doctor.
• Finals done by year 5, spend the year in hospitals and the community.
• Final year elective.
• Last placement spent shadowing the foundation doctor whose job you will take over once you’ve graduated if you choose to stay in Wales.
• This means your first day as an FY1 isn’t the start of a daunting new job, instead it’s return to a role you’ve already done in a familiar place supported by people you already know.

Question 4

What is the course called at Cardiff?

Answer 4

• C21.

Question 5

Where is the anatomy centre?

Answer 5

• Biosciences building.
• One of very few in the UK.
• Cadaveric dissection; uses body donors.

Question 6

What opportunities for personal choice are there?

Answer 6

• There is a chance for students to study abroad, select their own components and intercalate.
• Participation in research.

Question 7

What is the chronological life course?

Answer 7

• It is how basic clinical and scientific knowledge is taught in phase 1.

Question 8

What do the first 3 months of C21 involve?

Answer 8

PCS - platform for clinical science.

Question 9

What support is available at Cardiff?

Question 10

What intercalation options are available for Cardiff?

Answer 10

• Anatomy
• Biochemistry
• Emergency, Pre-hospital and
  Immediate Care (EPIC)
• Genomic Medicine
• Medical Education
• Neuroscience
• Pharmacology
• Physiology
• Population Medicine
• Psychology & Medicine
  MSc
• Applied and Experimental Clinical Immunology

Question 11

Why intercalate?

Answer 11

• Study an area of interest in more detail and depth than
  a medical degree covers
• Engage in a piece of original research
• Enhance your research-related transferable skills, which
  benefits you in both academic and clinical careers
• Develop basic theoretical knowledge, and potential
  research networks, for a future MD or PhD in a particular
  specialist field
• With some medical schools now making intercalation
  compulsory, a BSc or MSc is an attractive addition to
  your CV.

Question 12

What is Cardiff’s CARER scheme?

Answer 12

• Community and Rural Education (CARER) scheme, you will spend Year three as a valued part of a rural community primary care team.
• You will achieve the same learning outcomes as students on the main C21 programme, but in a different way: you will learn from your patients and your clinical team, fully supported by Cardiff University and a local clinical educational supervisor.
• This year-long clinical placement gives you time to really get to know your patients, and to learn about the quality of life, as a healthcare professional and an individual, on offer to clinicians who prefer a different pace of life.

Question 13

What is PPI?

Answer 13

Patient and public involvement (PPI)

Focus on patients and members of the public and their illnesses. You will learn about common medical conditions by real patients, as well as their doctors, in authentic and impressively equipped facilities.

You will learn the medical science that addresses these illnesses, but you will also learn the human side of medicine: to understand and help the people who live with and suffer illness.

Question 14

How many local health boards are there in NHS Wales?

Answer 14

7

Question 15

Socities?

Answer 15

• Meditation
• St John Ambulance
• F1
• Socialist