The year 3 Medicine in the Community Apprenticeship
pilot year is drawing to a close and the new cohort of 150 students have been
selected and are ready and poised to start phase 2 in September 2017!
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| Dr Shivani Tanna Year 3 Course Lead |
Our wonderful tutors have done an excellent job
hosting students for 10 weeks at their surgeries. We have really seen our
students thrive during this attachment. We have realised the value in giving
the students true authentic roles where they begin seeing their own patients in
clinic by week 3 and follow up their own patient case loads throughout. The
student feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and they have really enjoyed
feeling like integral members of the team.
Not only have we had involvement from excellent GP
tutors, we have also had many specialists and other GPs hosting our students
for their experience and clinical skills sessions. We are excited to be using
more hospital sites and GP services to help us next term.
We would like to thank all the faculty involved in
developing specialty choice modules (health coaching, palliative care, media
medicine and health inequalities) and those who are creating new ones as we
speak (the anatomy and science of yoga and meditation, leadership, diabetes and
research). You are all a fantastic and inspiring team to work with.
We look forward to developing this attachment even
further and are hoping to see it go from strength to strength. We will continue
listening to our students and ensuring we make this a great, meaningful experience for them,
ensuring we encourage each one to reach their true potential and gain
confidence with patients.
We firmly believe in the notion that you get out
what you put in. We want our students to realise there should be no limit on
what they can and should learn. They are valuable members of the team who are
able and capable of playing an active role and should be given this
opportunity. We aim to provide invaluable learning opportunities where medicine
will be mastered in its true context- through caring for patients. The ethos of
this placement will be to move our students away from the role of the passive
observer to the front line!
"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation"
Charles Kettering
If you are interested
in hosting our students at your practice or are able to offer a specialist
clinic where students can come and observe on an ad hoc basis, please contact
Steve Platt on s.platt@imperial.ac.uk
You can find out more about the MICA course by visiting our website - http://www.imperial.ac.uk/school-public-health/primary-care-and-public-health/teaching/undergrad/gp/
Dr Shivani Tanna
Year 3 MICA Course Lead
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