Appendix B: Clinical Attachments and Experiential Learning
Although not formally part of Tuning methodology, the web-base questionnaire survey also sought opinion about which areas of clinical medical practice were most important to be included as part of the core undergraduate medical school programme. The ranked results are shown below. In general, the highest rankings related to acute medical and surgical care settings, with community and primary care also ranking highly. The lowest rankings related to areas of specialised surgical and medical practice.
Medical graduates should have experienced clinical work in these areas:
- Care of acutely ill patients in Casualty / Accident and Emergency units
- Care of general (internal) medical patients in medical admission units
- Care of general surgical patients in surgical admission units
- Care in the community/family practice/primary care
- Care for elderly patients
- Care for sick children
- Care for the dying, palliative care
- Care for mentally ill patients
- Obstetric and gynaecological care
- Care for critically ill patients in Intensive Care Units
- Care of patients with specialised medical conditions (eg haematology, renal)
- Anaesthetic care
- Rehabilitation medicine
- Care of patients with specialised surgical conditions (eg cardiac surgery, urology)
