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ME4019 Long term conditions & integrated care - Block 1, Aberdeen (2026 - 2027)
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Staff interaction throughout placements
The welcoming to the block during the induction week was very well done.
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Tutorial week
The block was a great way to ease into the year because it wasn't too intense but gave good exposure to various areas and specialities.
Comment on your interaction with patients on this block
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I had very little patient interaction in this block, the only time I really interacted with patients was on my rehab week. Apart from that I was just sat in a corner observing clinics, with the doctor's occasionally letting me examine. Some of the clinics were really good but there is only so much sitting in a corner you can do before it starts feeling like a waste of time.
Took history and did relevant examinations on patients throughout this block. Also clerked a patient in Rehab week.
On some placements, people would be expecting a student (especially rehab week).
My direct interactions with patients during this block were relatively limited. We attended a wide range of clinics where the supervising clinicians did not know us, so there were fewer opportunities to take histories, perform examinations, or actively participate in patient care. As a result, much of the learning in these clinics involved observation rather than hands-on experience. However, during the Neurorehabilitation and Neurology placements, I had significantly more opportunities to engage with patients. As the teams became more familiar with me, they encouraged me to take histories, perform neurological examinations, and perform practical procedures. This made me feel much more involved in the clinical team and greatly improved my confidence and learning.
i had a really good learnignexperience
Not much interaction with patients due to clinics etc. However during ward time I got to take histories and examine patients
I was able to mostly take histories, but when there was time, I managed to ask supervising clinicians to conduct my full examination on the rehab ward, and I was able to see signs of a DVT, which was reported before other staff had seen the patient, and that meant I felt I contributed to the patient's care. I also did some cranial and neuro examinations.
As this block contains different specialties, please make it clear in your comments which specialty you are referring to. Please note any particularly good educational experiences and state why:
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I was taught how to do gentamicin and vancomycin prescription charts by one of the FY2s in woodend which was pretty helpful.
In Rehab a good educational experience was clerking a patient on ward, was good practice of my clinical skills and identifying any gaps I had. Neurology week, in clinic I found it very useful as the consultant was explaining things to me as we go and I found it very educational and interactive.
My best educational experience was in the Neurorehabilitation Unit at Woodend Hospital. The multidisciplinary team made me feel extremely welcome, actively involved me in patient care, and taught me a great deal about the role of the MDT in rehabilitation. This placement gave me a much better understanding of the long-term recovery journey that patients experience. I also had an excellent experience on the Neurology ward. Spending 4 days with the same team allowed them to get to know me and provide more teaching. I became much more confident performing neurological examinations and understanding the assessment of neurological patients. Finally, the Paediatric ENT clinic with Mr Ram was another standout placement. He actively involved me throughout the clinic, allowed me to use the otoscope, and gave me the opportunity to observe procedures such as ear wax removal and nasal endoscopy. He also regularly asked me questions, which reinforced my learning and made me feel like a valued member of the team.
i really enjoyed my rehabilitations weeka nd my speaciality week
The teaching clinics such as rheumatology were much more beneficial compared to the other clinics where you don’t get any opportunities to take a history etc.
Neurology was a greta experience because I was on the same ward all week therefore I managed to see interventions and outcomes as things happened.
Please suggest any improvements to this educational experience.
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It's really really frustrating not knowing your timetable until the friday before you start the next week - I understand that clinics get cancelled but it's very frustrating not being able to plan your week until essentially the day before. Most weeks I was only in 2 or 3 days and most of it was just observings. There is so much on long term conditions throughout every single block in medicine. I think it would have been more helpful if we could have been in one ward/specialty for the full 6 weeks that way we could have actually seen how patients long term conditions affect them day to day rather than just popping up in a different clinic every day.
Less clinics more wards.
Sometimes placements were taken from one students calendar and added to another students, this was particularly disheartening for exciting placements and often happened in an unfair way as students who already received certain specialty exposure placements in this block received more and some received none. An improvement would be to fairly distribute placements and not take placements from one student to give to another.
Overall, I enjoyed the block and appreciated the wide variety of placement opportunities. One improvement would be to provide greater continuity within some of the clinic placements. Spending multiple days with the same clinical team, as happened during Neurorehabilitation and Neurology, allowed the team to become familiar with students and resulted in far more opportunities for active participation. Extending this approach to more specialties could improve students’ confidence, increase hands-on learning, and provide a deeper understanding of the management of long-term conditions. Despite this, I felt the block was well organised and provided a broad range of valuable clinical experiences.
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More ward time less clinics or make more clinics teaching ones
Better timetabling and the 6 weeks being provided upfront may help me plan my independent study to be optimised for each speciality rather than it being uploaded the week before or even in some instances on the very last working day before the placement.
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Cameron Morrison - FY1, ORU woodend Cameron was really really good at making me feel part of the team on my woodend placement, he gave me lots of opportunities to speak to patients, ask questions and took so much time to explain things to me and was checking in to see how I was getting on with things consistenly as well and he seemed to genuinely take an interest in my learning. I had such a good time on my rehab week and I really enjoyed getting to feel like a part of the team even though I was just there for a few days.
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