University of Glasgow Medical School

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University of Glasgow Medical School
Established:	1751
Type:	Medical school
Dean:	Professor David Barlow
Head of the Undergraduate Medical School:	Prof Jillian M Morrison[1]
Undergraduates:	c.260
Location:	Glasgow, Scotland
Campus:	Wolfson Medical School Building, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ
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Affiliations:	University of Glasgow
Website:	www.gla.ac.uk/medicine/

Glasgow Medical School is the medical school of the University of Glasgow, and offers a 5 year MBChB degree course.

Contents 1 History 2 Course Structure 2.1 The Core (Years 1-3) 2.1.1 Year 1 2.1.2 Year 2 2.1.3 Year 3 2.2 Years 4 & 5 2.3 Student Selected Modules 2.4 Clinical Skills and Vocational Studies 3 Wolfson Medical School Building 3.1 Study Landscape 3.2 Clinical Skills 3.3 The Vocational Studies Suite 3.4 The Atrium 4 Associated Hospitals 5 Famous alumni 6 External links 7 References

[edit] History

Robert Mayne MA was appointed the Professor of Medicine in 1637 and held this post until 1645. After a lapse of almost 70 years, John Johnstoun MD was appointed in 1714. However, the modern medical school did not come into being until 1751, when William Cullen was appointed Professor of Medicine.

The Faculty of Medicine (and the rest of the University) moved from it original location in High Street, to Gilmorehill in the city's west end in 1870.

In 1996, the medical school introduced a new curriculum. In response to the GMC document 'Tomorrow's Doctors', the new course was integrated and delivered by Problem-based learning.

In 2002, the medical school moved into the purpose built Wolfson Medical School Building located at the bottom of University Avenue.^[2]

[edit] Course Structure

[edit] The Core (Years 1-3)

This is an integrated programme of clinical and scientific topics. The material covered has been selected to provide a comprehensive overview of medical and scientific principles. The knowledge component of the curriculum relies largely on Problem-based learning. It is seen as a preparation for a professional career based on lifelong learning. The programme has been developed by NHS and academic clinical staff working with scientists from the Faculties of Medicine and Biomedical & Life Sciences at the University.

Each year is split into 5 week blocks in which the PBL sessions, labs and plenaries all relate to a specific system or theme:

[edit] Year 1

• Block 1 - Hierarchy of Systems, Core Values in Medicine
• Block 2 - Elementary Topography
• Block 3 - Risks and Responses
• Blocks 4 & 5 - Determinants of Health; Disease Patterns; Nutrition, Metabolism, Growth and Development
• Block 6 - Homeostasis

[edit] Year 2 Block 7 - Conception, Growth and Development Block 8 - Musculoskeletal and Neurological Systems Block 9 - Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Renal Systems Block 10 - Digestion and Metabolism Block 11 - Regulation and Responses

[edit] Year 3 Block 12 - Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems Block 13 - Haematology, Musculoskeletal Systems, Dermatology Block 14 - Neurology, Psychiatry Block 15 - Abdomen and Breasts

[edit] Years 4 & 5

Years 4 and 5 form the final part of the core and take the form of a series of clinical attachments through Medicine, Surgery, Psychological Medicine, Child Health, Obstetrics & Gynaecology and General Practice. A series of Academic Days during the clinical attachments continues the process of integrating the biological and clinical sciences. Continuing training is given in both communication skills and clinical skills. All students are required to undertake one week of shadowing a junior doctor after their final exams before they can graduate.^[3]

[edit] Student Selected Modules

Student selected modules (SSM) constitute approximately 20% of the structured course time and are designed to allow the selection and in depth study of special interest subjects. A wide variety of topics for study are available. Increasingly, students are proposing their own SSMs and in addition there is the facility for an SSM to be linked to an elective, allowing for projects to be carried out overseas or a small research project to be completed.

[edit] Clinical Skills and Vocational Studies

Medical students have contact with patients from early on in the medical degree programme. Training in communication and clinical skills starts in Year 1, while Vocational Studies assists students in the acquisition of professional skills and attributes, standards and behaviour. The learning objectives are defined as follows:

• understanding people, patients and communities
• communication skills
• working with others
• clinical skills
• the clinical context, seeing encounters with patients as part of a larger clinical picture
• information skills
• evidence-based medicine
• finding out (research and experiment)
• the right thing to do (legal, moral, ethical)
• personal and professional development

[edit] Wolfson Medical School Building

The purpose-built Wolfson Medical School Building opened in September 2002, designed by Reiach and Hall Architects at a cost of £9m.^[4] As well as three small lecture rooms (with capacity for around eighty people) and ten PBL Rooms, facilities include:

[edit] Study Landscape

The Walton Foundation Library and Resource Area (also known as the Study Landscape) occupies three levels of the building and is open to medical students 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. As well as 120 study carrels (booths) with flat-screen computers, students have access video recorders and DVD players for watching Clinical Skills materials, over 3000 books (including multiple copies of core texts), CD-ROMs and Computer-Aided Learning packages. There are six project rooms^[5].

[edit] Clinical Skills

Clinical Skills is made up from a fully equipped ward and side rooms complete with audio visual equipment, allowing students to document, analyse and improve their performance. This area also contains Harvey (a cardiology patient simulator which can help students to diagnose cardiac abnormalities) and Sim-man (a life support patient simulator).

[edit] The Vocational Studies Suite

In Vocational Studies, students acquire professional skills and attributes. In our Vocational Studies Suite medical students can practise consulting in a realistic environment, interacting with actors in the roles of patients. The suite comprises 10 small group learning rooms equipped with audiovisual technology as well as two soft seating pre-consultation ‘waiting’ areas for the simulated patients. In addition, there is a resource room with teaching materials and videos.

Consulting rooms are positioned adjacent to small group learning rooms, where their classmates and tutors can observe their simulated consultations on a TV monitor. These rooms also provide the opportunity for student-tutor encounters over a period of time that are essential to professional development.

As well as communication skills, the Vocational Studies Suite is a base from which ethics, professional development and other aspects of doctors’ behaviour and attitudes are explored.

[edit] The Atrium

The central triangle of the medical school, covered by a glass roof and with its own café and seating area.^[6]

[edit] Associated Hospitals

Hospitals that are associated with the Medical School include:^[7]

Ayrshire Central The Ayr Hospital Crosshouse Hospital Dykebar Hospital Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary Falkirk & District Royal Infirmary Gartnavel General

Gartnavel Royal Hospital Glasgow Royal Infirmary Golden Jubilee National Hospital Hairmyres Hospital Inverclyde Royal Hospital Leverndale Hospital Monklands Hospital

Parkhead Hospital Princess Royal Maternity Queen Mothers Hospital Royal Alexandra Hospital Ravenscraig Hospital Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill) Southern General Hospital

Stobhill Hospital Stirling Royal Infirmary Victoria Infirmary Wishaw General Hospital Western Infirmary

[edit] Famous alumni

Past students of the University of Glasgow Medical School include:

• William Cullen (1710 - 1790) Physician and chemist.
• William Hunter (1718 - 1783) Anatomist and obstetrician.
• Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771) Novelist and physician.
• Joseph Black (1728-1799) Chemist and physician.
• Joseph Lister (1827-1912) Physician.
• Murdoch Cameron (1845-1930) Obstetrician.
• Sir William MacEwen (1848-1924) Surgeon.
• John Glaister Snr (1856-1932) Regius Professor of Forensic Medicine.
• John Glaister Jnr (1892-1971) Regius Professor of Forensic Medicine.
• Marion Gilchrist (1864-1952) Ophthalmologist.
• Marbai Ardesir Vakil (1868- c.1948) Physician.
• Dame Anne Louise McIllroy (1878-1968) Gynaecologist and obstetrician.
• John Boyd Orr (1880-1971) Nutritionist.
• Osborne Henry Mavor (1888-1951) Dramatist, GP and Professor of Medicine at Anderson’s College.
• Dr Archibald Joseph Cronin (1896-1981) (GP and novelist; author of The Citadel and The Stars Look Down)
• Ian Donald (1910-1987) Obstetrician.
• RD Laing (1927-1989) Psychiatrist.
• Dr Ernest Macalpine ("Mac") Armstrong (Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, 2000-2005)
• Dr Harry Burns (Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, 2005-present)
• Prof Sir Kenneth Calman (Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, 1989-1991; Chief Medical Officer, United Kingdom of England, 1991-1998; Vice Chancellor and Warden of Durham University, 1998-2007; Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, 2007-present
• Dr Liam Fox (Conservative politician; Shadow Defence Secretary; MP for Woodspring)

[edit] External links

• University of Glasgow: Studying Medicine

[edit] References

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v • d • e List of medical schools in the United Kingdom England North: Durham1 · HYMS · Leeds · Liverpool · Manchester · Newcastle · Sheffield Midlands: Birmingham · Keele · Leicester  · Nottingham · Warwick2 South: Brighton & Sussex · Bristol · Cambridge · UEA · Oxford · Peninsula · Southampton London3: Barts and The London · Imperial · King's · UCL · St George's Scotland Aberdeen · Bute4 · Dundee · Edinburgh  · Glasgow Wales Cardiff · Swansea2 Northern Ireland Queen's University Belfast 1In conjunction with Newcastle, 2 year pre-clinical course only 2Graduate course only 3All London medical schools apart from Imperial College are colleges of the University of London, although for practical purposes they are autonomous 4Part of the University of St Andrews, pre-clinical course only