LKCMedicine Corporate Brochure - Imperial College London
LKCMedicine Corporate Brochure - Imperial College London
LKCMedicine Corporate Brochure - Imperial College London
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Pioneering a New Medical Curriculum<br />
The School has ambitious aims to redefine both medical education and research.<br />
Starting a new medical school gives us the chance to innovate and introduce best<br />
practices of medical programmes around the world. The <strong>LKCMedicine</strong> curriculum,<br />
adapted from <strong>Imperial</strong> but designed to ensure relevance to the Singapore population<br />
and healthcare system, aims to lay a firm foundation in the basic medical sciences<br />
while providing students with a high quality clinical experience. The curriculum<br />
emphasises the clinical relevance of the basic sciences and students will have<br />
patient exposure from the beginning of the programme.<br />
The programme content is designed around three themes,<br />
each of which contains key fundamental subjects and topics.<br />
THEME 1: Scientific Basis of Medicine<br />
This theme includes the basic sciences underpinning normal<br />
and abnormal human structure and function, related scientific<br />
disciplines and biomedical engineering, including computer science.<br />
THEME 2: Clinical Management and Patient-Centred Care<br />
An overarching theme throughout the course will be that of enhancing<br />
patient care through acquisition of clinical skills, professionalism,<br />
shared decision-making and effective communication, including<br />
strategies for dealing with linguistic and other communication barriers.<br />
THEME 3: Healthcare Delivery and Professional Standards<br />
This theme will include ethics, law and professionalism, health service policy<br />
and leadership, business management, and evidence-based medicine.<br />
The five-year programme is divided into three phases:<br />
Phase 1 (Years I and 2), Phase 2 (Years 3 and 4) and Phase 3 (Year 5).<br />
OUR COURSE HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:<br />
• Earlier and more extensive exposure to patients and clinical environments<br />
than in most traditional medical programmes<br />
• Extensive use of Simulation, Team Based Learning and eLearning that<br />
enhance learning and better prepare students for real clinical situations<br />
• Clinical learning opportunities and exposure across the full range<br />
of healthcare delivery environments in Singapore<br />
• A Long-Term Patient Project in Years 1 and 2 of the programme that gives<br />
students a more realistic view of disease progression and the effect on patients<br />
• Weekly self-selected Project Time in Years 3 and 4 that encourages development<br />
of students’ research, clinical and other investigative interests and skills<br />
• Choice of Selectives, overseas Electives plus Rotational Doctoring that refine<br />
students’ advanced clinical skills in Year 5 of the programme
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