Stuff to go through before exam

Question 1

How is the NHS organized ?

Question 2

How is EBDM (Evidence Based Decision Making) implemented?

Answer 2

-Evidence based clinical guidelines

-Summaries of evidence provided for practitioners

-Access to reviews of research evidence

-Practitioners evaluating research for themselves

Question 3

What is the medical definition of professionalism ?

Answer 3

Set of values, behaviours and relationships that underpins the trust that the public has in doctors

Question 4

Describe the regulatory role of the GMC?

Answer 4

To protect, promote and maintain the health and safety of the public by ensuring proper standards in the practice of medicine.

Question 5

Outline the role of medical schools and the GMC in ensuring students and doctors fitness to practice?

Answer 5

• GMC sets its guidance for what medical graduates need to accomplish in Tomorrow’s Doctors.
• This is taught by the medical schools.
• This is examined formally in various exams taken throughout the course, reflective essays, learning to give feedback and self-reflection, attendance and punctuality, plagiarism.

Question 6

Define patient centered care ?

Answer 6

Care that is responsive to the wants, needs, and preferences of the patient

Question 7

What is autonomy?

Answer 7

Informing patients with capacity to make their own decisions

Question 8

Epidemiology ?

Answer 8

The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states and events in populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems

Question 9

Health promotion ?

Answer 9

The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health

Question 10

What are social inequalities in health?

Answer 10

• Differences in people’s health linked to social inequalities in their lives

Question 11

Define diagnosis ?

Answer 11

• The process of determining the nature of a disorder by considering the patients signs and symptoms, medical background. and when necessary the results of lab tests and x rays.

Question 12

Define prognosis ?

Answer 12

• An assessment of the future course and outcome of a patient’s disease based on knowledge of the course of disease in other patients together with the general health, age and sex of the patient.

Question 13

Define consent ?

Answer 13

Is the properly informed decision of a competent patient, freely given

Question 14

Bolam Principle

Answer 14

States that ‘practitioners are NOT negligible if they act in accordance with the practice accepted by a responsible body of medical information’

Question 15

What is ethnicity and what is race ?

Answer 15

Ethnicity is socially determined and can be linked with countries of origin and residence, religion, social networks etc, whereas race is biological and genetic