Module overview
This module is about public health and teamworking. It aims to offer student choice and to develop students' professional knowledge, skills, values and behaviour through reflective practice. Further details will be provided on Blackboard.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Develop a critical understanding of how health, illness and disability are experienced in the community
- Gather relevant information from reliable sources and present it clearly and appropriately, verbally or in writing
- Identify features of effective academic poster design
- Demonstrate an awareness of how health behaviours are affected by the diversity of the patient population
- Develop effective oral and poster presentation skills
- Demonstrate knowledge of a local health issue
- Work effectively in a team
- Practise reflection
- Produce an academic poster which includes an interactive component, and logic model
- Communicate effectively and negotiate with peers
- Recognise the rights and the equal value of all people
- Participate in peer review - give and receive feedback
- Take responsibility for your own learning and personal and professional development
- Access public health information sources and use the information in relation to health improvement
- Identify the social determinants of health and health inequalities
- Critically engage with public health data, policy and practice
- Demonstrate a wider perspective on health that includes the role of doctors in health improvement, addressing the social determinants of health and health inequalities
Syllabus
The Health Improvement module offers choice of a health improvement area to focus on.
Students work in groups to design a health improvement intervention for use with a particular target group in a healthcare setting such as a GP surgery or hospital, or a community setting such as a school or charity. Students choose a local health topic; select a target group and setting; research the background and evidence for the topic; identify the issues involved; create ways of intervening that will address the issues and produce an academic poster that demonstrates the work. Students also evaluate the intervention & reflect upon their performance and the team work.
In order to meet the learning outcomes, the syllabus will contain teaching in the following areas:
-Public Health
-Health Improvement
-Communication
-Team Working & Leadership
-Sociology
-Psychology
- Research methods
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
The module will be taught through a range of learning and teaching strategies which will include:
-Lectures
-Plenary skills sessions
-Seminars
-Facilitator-led tutorials
-Workshops
-Self–directed learning
-Projects
-Group work
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Practical classes and workshops | 20 |
| Wider reading or practice | 35 |
| Completion of assessment task | 20 |
| Preparation for scheduled sessions | 20 |
| Lecture | 5 |
| Total study time | 100 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Please see the Blackboard module page for current resources and the full reading list for this module is available on the Library Online Reading List at http://soton.rl.talis.com/.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
All elements must be passed for successful completion of the module. Students may fail an assessment if unsatisfactory attendance or performance means that they cannot achieve all of the learning outcomes because there is not enough time during the module to complete the necessary work. If students fail the first attempt they will be offered a referral attempt. If students fail this referral attempt, BM5/6/EU Year 1 students may be offered an internal repeat year whilst BM6 Year 0 students may be offered an external repeat attempt.Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Group Poster Presentation | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Resubmit assessments | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Repeat of module | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External