MED-20001 - Module Specification
School of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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Aims
1: Exam weighted 65%
Written Knowledge (cumulative testing in November, January and May/June)
The assessment will be split into three assessment points across the year with a final cumulative mark for the year. The assessment will comprise Single Best Answer questions (SBA) and short answers questions delivered online in an invigilated PC lab setting. There are 275 marks of Single Best Answer and 75 marks of Short Answer - blueprinted against units of delivery across the year as well as subject themes in the curriculum. The pass mark is determined using a modified Cohen standard setting approach (here it is 65% of the score on the 90th centile plus one SEM)

2: Objective Structured Skills & Clinical Examination weighted 25%
Practical assessments - objective structured clinical examination (OSCE)
Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE): Students ability to safely and effectively conduct clinically relevant, practically based tasks will be assessed using OSCEs. OSCEs are used extensively across undergraduate and postgraduate medical training and present all candidates with the same task, marked by expert examiners using a structured marking scheme. OSCE are scheduled to be delivered in the January (4 stations) and June (8 stations) assessment windows. To be satisfactory students need to pass 8 or more stations AND the sum of their stations scores needs to be greater than the sum of the station pass scores plus one Standard Error of Measurement. This double threshold is the same used in national level Clinical and Professional Skills Assessments (CPSA) as part of the Medical Licencing Assessment (MLA)

3: Portfolio weighted 6%
Community Placement Programme (Portfolio)
In year 2, Students are assigned to a local community organisation that provides health or social care. At the end of their placement write a placement summary (500 words), short reflective summaries (two each of 500 words) based on their placement experiences and provide logs of activities.

4: Assignment weighted 4%
Community Placements Programme (Poster presentation)
Students are assigned to a local community organisation that provides health or social care. For this part of the assessment, students prepare a poster that describes an aspect of the services provided by this organisation. The students then give a 5 min oral presentation on the services provided and their motivation for the design of their poster (eg to support recruitment of volunteers, advertise services to users etc) and answer questions from the audience on their placement and/or poster design. Two staff mark the work using a standard proforma. The automatic extension is available for handing in the poster. There is no automatic extension for the presentation of the poster - and attendance is required for the presentation.

5: Portfolio weighted 0%
Appraisal
Students meet twice with their Professional Development Tutor. The first is an introduction meeting, the second is for a structured appraisal. Whilst the appraisal is formative, attending and recording this attendance is a requirement for progression. To be satisfactory in this domain, students need to record, by deadlines provided, that their appraisal has taken place.