PRIME 2013 course for students

At Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj Napoca At the request of and in collaboration with Professor Dr A. Buzoianu, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, under the organisation of Dr Soimita Suciu, Didactic Vice-Dean

June 4th - 7th 2013, 09.00 - 12.00

The course
Although our teaching will be of interest to healthcare students of all disciplines, it is aimed for students with some clinical experience. Three sessions are for medical students, one for stomatology students. The teaching will be in the lively style familiar to those who have been to previous PRIME courses: short interactive presentations, role plays, discussion in pairs and groups, and individual reflection. The course will consist of four, 3 hour sessions from 09.00 - 12.00. It is important that students attend the full session, but they do not need to attend every session. Students who attend at least two out of three of the Tuesday/Thursday/Friday sessions will receive a certificate of attendance from Brighton & Sussex medical school. The course will be conducted in English. We will teach on several subjects: the underlying theme is of how to practice high quality whole person medicine in the real world of limited time and resources.

Summary of course content (more details on next page)

Tuesday 4th June: The doctor as teacher Wednesday 5th June: The stomatologist as teacher. This session is for stomatology students. Thursday 6th June: What is a good doctor? Managing patients with dementia. Friday 7th June: Managing chronic pain. Integrity in medicine.

Details of sessions
All sessions are designed for medical students, other than on Wednesday 5th June

Tuesday 4th June 2013: The doctor as teacher We demonstrate that providing education is a central part of many consultations between doctor and patient, and can significantly affect clinical outcomes. We demonstrate skills for providing effective one-to-one education. We give you opportunities to practice these skills, both in a non-clinical and a clinical setting. Wednesday 5th June 2013: The stomatologist as teacher This session is designed for stomatology students: a similar session designed for medical students was yesterday. We demonstrate that providing education is a central part of many consultations between stomatologist and patient, and can significantly affect clinical outcomes. We demonstrate skills for providing effective one-to-one education. We give you opportunities to practice these skills, both in a non-clinical and a clinical setting. Thursday 6th June 2013: What is a good doctor? Managing patients with dementia We consider how medical knowledge, personal aspirations, compassion towards patients and communication skills combine to produce a doctor capable of treating the whole patient, not just their symptoms. Around one third of individuals over eighty will develop a chronic cognitive impairment categorised as dementia. Dementia creates many questions and challenges for effective medical practice. This seminar considers the syndrome of dementia, examining its diagnosis, behavioural challenges and means for managing care within a clinical setting. Friday 7th June 2013: Managing pain. Integrity in practice As populations age and comorbidities increase, chronic pain is becoming an increasingly common feature of medical practice. Its impact on personal functioning, quality of life and mental health is unparalleled. However, chronic pain is remains notoriously difficult to manage well and as such is often overlooked within healthcare. We consider the different types and causes of pain, presenting a structured management strategy in approaching both acute and on-going cases of multifactorial pain.
A patient comes to a doctor in trust. They hope for honesty, consistency and accountability in medical practice. However, corruption within healthcare poses a major threat to achieving this. We consider the different forms of corruption within medicine and the reasons why they occur, including case based discussion and problem solving. We then consider the concept of work-based integrity as a doctor, examining methods of remaining accountable to our patients in both our medical knowledge and day-to-day clinical practice.

The PRIME Tutors

Dr Tim Patten, MA MB BS MRCGP DRCOG
I have been a General Practitioner (family doctor) in Southampton UK since 1988. I have a strong commitment to continuing personal care for my patients, many of whom I have been looking after for 25 years. I am a graduate from Oxford University and Imperial Medical School. I am a senior lecturer at Southampton Medical School, where students receive primary care teaching from their first week as a medical student. I teach students in every year of their course, and organize the clinical teaching that all students receive in their first year. I have a particular interest in teaching healthcare professionals and students to take effective and holistic medical histories in the real world of medicine where we have limited time in which to do this. I believe that providing teaching to patients is a core duty of all healthcare professionals. Students are an important and underused resource for providing teaching to patients and other students. My wife Bridget is a primary school teacher, and I have three adult children Rosemary, Will and John. My other loves include cycling, windsurfing, and playing various guitars. This will be my seventh trip to Romania, (my fifth to Cluj-Napoca) as a PRIME tutor. I love the warmth and enthusiasm of the Romanian people, and hope to improve my very poor grasp of the Romanian language! timjimpatten@gmail.com

Dr Aaron Poppleton, BSc (hons), MBChB (European Studies)

I graduated from the University of Manchester in 2011 after completing a problem-based medical curriculum. I am currently working as a ward-based hospital doctor as part of a two year position postgraduation. During my studies I had the opportunity to complete an additional scientific Bachelors degree in Pharmacology and Physiology as well as the chance of studying medical German, through which I was able to complete several clinical attachments and projects within tertiary clinical centres in Germany. As part of my final year of study, I was also able to spend a month at a medical centre in Budapest, Hungary. I have a great interest in the development of Global Health with a particular focus on Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. As part of this I became a member of PRIME and have attended and taught at medical conferences and recesses in Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania, on topics such as evidence based medicine and person-centred management in alcohol misuse patients. I have recently commenced studying a part-time Masters course in global health and non-communicable disease, through which I hope to gain a greater appreciation of the barriers and opportunities to the provision of effective person centred healthcare worldwide including issues surrounding clinical governance and accountability. In my limited free time I am an avid cyclist and am trying to teach myself Russian (with somewhat limited success)! This will be my second trip to Romania. I greatly look forward to teaching again at UMF. aaron.poppleton@gmail.com We will be helped by teachers and students from UMF

What Is PRIME?
PRIME - Partnerships in International Medical Education - is registered as a charity in the UK dedicated to improving standards of health worldwide, particularly in primary care, through educational activities in collaboration with national organisations in other countries. We seek sustainability through training trainers and equipping them with appropriate skills. Our aim is to advance the cause of whole person and patient centred medical practice, develop primary care, promote co-operation and liaison between primary and secondary sectors and build frameworks for ethical decision making. Towards this end we seek to create genuine partnerships between medical educators in developed, developing and restructuring nations. Training given by PRIME always aims to motivate, empower and encourage participating doctors and other health care workers to be agents for change and improvement within their health care system, to facilitate the development of appropriate and effective delivery of health care, especially to the less privileged. All tutors are experienced in medical education at university or post-graduate level and include Professors from various disciplines in UK medical schools as well as Associate Advisors in General Practice and Vocational Training Course Organisers. PRIME has strong links with the Christian Medical Fellowship in UK, whose 5000 members include a large number of highly acclaimed medical educators, but tutors are also drawn from outside of that organisation. They are all enthusiasts for spreading the concepts of integrated whole person care and equipping students and doctors in illness management and to communicate better with their patients. Teaching is done from a Christian perspective, but courses are designed to be acceptable to and accessible by doctors and health care workers of other faiths or of none. PRIME has no links with Jehovahs witnesses, Mormons or any other sect.

www.prime-international.org.uk