Preparation for Medical Careers (MBBS0080)

This is the third of four patient pathways in the Clinical and Professional Practice (CPP) curriculum which runs &#039;vertically&#039; across the...

Patient Pathway - Cancer Medicine (MBBS0065)

This is the third of four patient pathways in the Clinical and Professional Practice (CPP) curriculum which runs 'vertically' across the 'horizontal' modules in each year of the programme.

CPP is organised into three module groupings:

Integrated Clinical and Professional Practice;
	Overall Themes;
	and Student-Centred Learning, Person-Centred Learning.
These four formal patient pathways in the Student-Centred Learning, Person-Centred Learning grouping are designed to create opportunities for students to understand the experience of illness from the patient perspective, but you will also be encouraged to follow individual patients through their treatment in areas such as breast cancer, liaison psychiatry, COPD etc. The patient pathways teaching and learning includes some or all of: plenaries, tutorials, placements, visits to services and patients, and meetings between the student and patients without direct supervision.

This third patient pathway takes place in year 4 and is designed to provide an understanding of the diagnosis and management of cancer patients, exposure to the patients’ experience of their cancer journey, and practice in forming relationships with patients.

Following an introductory lecture, students are allocated a cancer patient pathway tutor, whom they meet together with fellow students for five tutorials between October and June. They are supported to find a suitable cancer patient themselves and accompany them to some of their appointments and treatment (i.e. chemotherapy or radiotherapy sessions) for a period of a few months. At the end of the pathway, the students will have the opportunity to present their case to their tutor group and focus on a particular area of special interest in the diagnosis and management of their patient. Their learning is reinforced with tutorials and case discussions on the most common cancers: lung, breast, prostate and colorectal cancer.