Keele

Question 1

4 pillars of medical ethics

Answer 1

Autonomy, benificence, non-maficence and justice

Question 2

Keele USP’s

Answer 2

Keele University has fully body dissections that allow you and your group to consolidate your learning from a textbook setting to a real life setting. This provides a way to continuously learn throughout the year and consolidate information. The school also has prosections focusing on certain organ systems depending on the corresponding units. Keele provides opportunities beginning in first year for hospital placement and clinical exposure starting from day 1 in order to gain experience with patients. The school also provides opportunities for intercalated degrees either after year 2 or year 4 to explore other student interests.

Question 3

6 NHS core values

Answer 3

Working together for patients

Respect and dignity

Commitment to quality of care

Compassion

Improving lives

Everyone counts

Question 4

Key NHS beliefs

Answer 4

The NHS provides a comprehensive service, available to all

Access to NHS services is based on clinical need, not an individual’s ability to pay

The NHS aspires to the highest standards of excellence and professionalism

The patient will be at the heart of everything the NHS does

The NHS works across organisational boundaries

The NHS is committed to providing best value for taxpayers’ money

The NHS is accountable to the public, communities and patients that it serves

Question 5

Explain the PBL

Answer 5

On a PBL style course, the focus is on working in small groups and on peer-to-peer learning. There is a large emphasis placed on discovering things for yourself, so learning is much more self-directed. Many problem based learning courses also place more importance on learning about interacting with patients, so there may be teaching sessions every week dedicated to this.

Question 6

Advantages to PBL

Answer 6

1. Development of Long-Term Knowledge Retention
2. Use of Diverse Instruction Types
3. Continuous Engagement
4. Development of Transferable Skills
5. Improvement of Teamwork and Interpersonal Skills

Question 7

Disadvantages to PBL

Answer 7

it is not as content rich as a traditional teaching structure, leaving students less well informed about the issues. PBL works depends on the group dynamic.

Question 8

What is Herceptin

Answer 8

Herceptin can help control the growth of cancer cells that contain high amounts of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2). By blocking effects and encouraging immune system to attack.
Side effects; breathlesness, tired, weight loss, muscle pains, heart problems, harder to fight infections off

Question 9

Why medicine?

Answer 9

Having lived through the experience of terminal disease in my family I have great empathy because I understand the impact and suffering of patients. I’ve had experience of living and caring for members with Alzheimers and cancer which greatly interested me into what was wrong and how they were treated. For example my nan could recite a song but couldn’t remember my name. The more i experinece the more I am interested

Question 10

What is your most challenging thing about medicine

Answer 10

Families fundraising for a loved one, difficult, empathy cuz if dad, highly motivates me

Question 11

How would you cope if people die

Answer 11

1. Highest quality of care - comfortable
2. what have I learnt that can help others
3. Relaxation - swimming

Question 12

How would you allocate an organ

Answer 12

to the patient who would have the best outcome

Question 13

Difference between sympathy and empathy and which is more important

Answer 13

sympathy - feeling of pitty/sorrow for someone else

empathy - ability to understand and share feeling with another. More important as it helps build trust

Question 14

Responsibilities - fun day

Answer 14

I was responsible for ensuring the events were conducted safely and effectively, managing and communicating with people on all different levels within their various roles to give both guidance and feedback throughout the whole process. Over the following 18 months I completed numerous events and raised £25,142.

Question 15

Responsibilities - grant

Answer 15

, I took on the responsibility of fundraising to raise sufficient funds to help support a crisis fund and also in getting exercise equipment and online exercise classes to patients. As a result £5,000 was successfully raised for the crisis fund and a £10,000 grant from Sport England was awarded to deliver exercise equipment and online classes to patients.

Question 16

Responsibilities - mentoring

Answer 16

I had empathy for their situation, and gave them support and guidance to overcome these problems in a dignified way. The skills I taught, allowed them to communicate openly and honestly leading to them overcoming the adversity and forming a close friendship bond, supporting and encouraging each other. This showed me the importance of enabling people to convey their thoughts and feelings in a relaxed and honest way, it is vital they feel comfortable and listened to and understand the best course of action.

Question 17

Fun day - what could have gone better

Answer 17

Unforseen circumstances - ran out of parking, required qucik thinkining, problem solving and communication with farer next door to use his field to park in

Question 18

Resiliance

Answer 18

1. Communication skills - easier to cope with stress.
2. Healthy lifestyle - fit and healthy to ensure I can think clearly making it easier to manage stress and overcome any issues.
3. Ability to engage support when needed.

Question 19

Motivation

Answer 19

1. Cf sparked interest but mother with cancer and nan with alzheimers further fuelled interest so encouraged me to attend lectures (CF -Ed), cancer (MOOC), alzheimers (Man who mistook his wife for a hat).
2. Focused in an area - asked doctors what particular ways I could have helped e.g. CF/covid, social isolation and anxiety / exercise equipment applied for a grant and online exercise classes.

Question 20

Patient comprehension

Answer 20

1. Paient feel at ease
2. identify any cause of understanding issue - e.g. language/hearing.
3. Estavalish what they have not understood already - correcting any errors
4. You explain topic - clearly and steadily, step by step checking they understand each stage.
5. When finished ask them to repeat back to you so you can pick up nay misunderstanding.

Question 21

What can you contribute to keele

Answer 21

As a medical student I would provide mentoring and support for younger years for living a healthy lifestyle, being able to manage stress and being able to ask and help find support when needed helping their communication skills. Contributing to a sense of community with a strong support network.

Question 22

What did i learn from CF lecture

Answer 22

Genetically inherited disease affecting the movement of salt and water out of the cell causing a build up of thick mucus particularly in the lungs. The cilia can not waft the mucus out of the cell causing the bacteria to remain in the lungs and being more susceptible to infections. Cilia is also damaged. Kaftrio became available to patients in the UK last year. It works on the protein CFTR (commonly dmaaged in CF patients and regulates movement of salt and water) Ivacaftor improves its function and tezacaftor increases the amount of protein. So mucus less sticky.

Question 23

What did i learn from MOOC

Answer 23

Being overweight or obese greatly increases a woman’s chance of developing endometrial cancer. Other risk factors include age, family history, a diagnosis of polycystic ovary syndrome and prior use of the breast cancer treatment drug tamoxifen.

Question 24

What did i learn from book

Answer 24

He argues that the medical community tends to define almost all neurological disorders as deficits of some kind. But Sacks claims that the paradigm of mental illness as a deficit is too narrow—first, because it marginalizes disorders of the right hemisphere of the brain, which can’t easily be understood as a deficit in a specific brain function, and second, because the paradigm underestimates subjects’ abilities to find ways of compensating for mental illness and making up for the “deficit.” form of face blindness that leaves him unable to distinguish between his wife’s face and his own hat; Jimmie G., who has Korsakov’s Syndrome, meaning that he can’t remember anything for more than a few seconds; Christina, who loses her sense of proprioception, meaning that she can’t feel her own body; Madeline J., who has cerebral palsy and claims to be unable to control her own hands;