On Thursday the 24th May we held a presentation
day for the year 5 students of the Integrated Clinical Apprenticeship (ICA)
course to showcase their creative pieces demonstrating their reflections and
learning from apprenticeship.
The ICA is a pilot course for 24 year 5 students who spend
one day a week outside of their normal curriculum, with a morning spent at a GP
practice where they accumulate their own caseload of patients related to the
specialties covered in year 5 (obstetrics & gynaecology, psychiatry,
paediatrics, palliative care). These students then follow these patients across
the whole year attending appointments in secondary care, deliveries for antenatal
patients, home visits, and investigations and reviewing their patients in the
GP Practice. They take an active role in their patients’ management and
ownership over their caseload of patients. In the afternoon the students attend
for centralised teaching on topics related to professional practice including
managing uncertainty, how to be a generalist, advanced communication skills,
transgender medicine and many more.
Over the year they are asked to create a piece of work to
demonstrate their learning from the course. The quality, creativity and
imagination of the projects was remarkable! Some memorable examples are below:
Dr Andy McKeown and Dr Ravi Parekh
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