GEP Medicine in Society Guide 2022/23

Medicine in Society is a community-based course for students in years 1 of the GEP MBBS curriculum. The global aims of the course are to introduce students to patients and their experience of health and ill-health over the course of their lives and for students to start to develop and explore their professional identity. 

Students, in groups of 8, will spend 14 days in primary care during the year. Each day is themed and has clear learning objectives. The themes relate to systems that the students have studied recently, e.g. day 13 focusing on pregnancy and childbirth is during, or after, the human development system teaching. The students will also spend time in secondary care. These days are also themed and have a focus on clinical examination skills. 

Students will be engaged in many different activities over the course of the module, including small group tutorials, shadowing and interviewing clinicians and other healthcare professionals, having contact with patients (including home visits), self-directed learning, etc. 

Contacts

Unit Convenors

Primary care

Secondary Care

Dr Elizabeth Gaunt