Medicine at Cardiff University

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Medicine at Cardiff University
Andrew Carson-Stevens Cardiff University
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Introduction

• Studying medicine at Cardiff
• Cardiff medical society (MedSoc)
• Years 1 5 (6) curriculum outline

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Choosing Cardiff

• Upcoming cosmopolitan city
• Respected medical school and graduates with
  training across Wales
• Community feel within Students Union
• Cadaveric Dissection!

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Cardiff Medical Society

• Provide first encounter with Medic ethos
• MedSoc is the conduit between deanery and the
  student body (Academic)
• Organise staff-student dinners, balls,
  seasonal parties, sporting events and buddy
  family scheme (Social)

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Year 1 MB BCh

• Core science teaching and coursework
• Didactic system panel lectures
• Cadaveric dissection
• Laboratory practical investigations

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Dissection
16 hours per week in autumn term Groups of 8-10
per body
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Year 1 Clinical components

• Early clinical attachments
• Basic Life Support
• Family case study
• Ethics seminars

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Year 2 MB BCh

• Integration of basic sciences into the
  clinical context
• Neuroanatomy
• Head and Neck dissection
• Didactic system panel teaching

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Year 2 Clinical components

• Four Student Selected Components
• Clinical skills
• Nursing placement

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Year 3 CLINICAL PLACEMENTS!

• Rheumatology and Orthopaedics
• Surgery
• Medicine 1 and 2
• Teaching on Wed (am)

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Year 3 Student Selected Components

• Evidence based medicine
• Oncology Project
• 9 week research project

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Year 3 Intermediate MB Examination

• Make or break time
• Biggest hurdle of course
• Exams are HARD

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Intercalated BSc Year

• Optional
• 50 students per year
• BSc/ BA in a year
• A welcomed break from medicine!

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Year 4 (Finals Part 1) Specialty rotation

• Cardiology
• Dermatology, ENT, Infectious Diseases
  Ophthalmology
• Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Psychiatry
• Paediatrics

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Year 5 (Finals Part 2) Get ready to rumble!

• Go on elective
• Three rotations to consolidate all medical
  knowledge over past five years
• On successful completion of finals

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Doctor in the house
FINALLY A DOCTOR!