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thus introduce students to the fundamental cellular and molecular basis of medicine at theearliest opportunity. Secondly, the course aims to integrate teaching of medical biochemistry,genetics and certain aspects of immunology and haematology into a single theme. Thirdly itwill allow horizontal integration of teaching in (for example) the cellular, molecular andgenetic aspects of specific system disorders.Dr Andrew RichesHead of Medical Science
Undergraduate medical education at Keele University and North StaffordshireThere is a hive of activity at Keele University and North Staffordshire Hospital NHS Trust as weprepare for the first cohort of clinical students awarded jointly to Keele and Manchester Universitiesin 1999. Fifty students are already in year 1 at Manchester and will move to North Staffordshire foryears 3 to 5.North Staffordshire Hospital NHS Trust is a large acute hospital with a wide range of teachingservices and approximately 1300 beds and 140 consultants. Keele University's School of PostgraduateMedicine has 16 professors and 27 senior lecturers so the building blocks are already in place toprovide the students with excellent clinical experience and we are now concentrating on designing thefacilities and working out how best to deliver the curriculum.FacilitiesAlthough North Staffordshire Hospital NHS Trust has taken undergraduate medical studentsfrom a variety of teaching hospitals for many years (most notably the Obstetric andGynaecology students from University College Hospital London who voted the attachmentthe best in the country in 1998), there are no facilities suitable for the number of studentsarriving after 2002. Therefore we are building a new education centre linked to the surgicalblock, which will form the first phase of an integrated academic complex on the City GeneralHospital site. Major re-developments are likely around North Staffordshire Hospital NHSTrust which involve moving the Royal Infirmary and Hartshill activities to the City Generalwithin the decade. This is a wonderful opportunity to develop a medical school as anintegrated part of a major new hospital. There is already a new Acute Psychiatric Unitbuilding under construction on the site and bids have been submitted for funding for researchbuildings and additional undergraduate medical students. This has meant that we needed todevise plans for a series of academic buildings over the next 10 years rather than just thespace for the first cohort of students.CurriculumThe first point to make is that the staff at Keele and North Staffordshire are enormouslygrateful to everyone in Manchester who has spent time providing advice and support. Thishas happened at all levels from Paul O'Neill and Carl Whitehouse through to Hospital Deans,individual specialists, clinical skills co-ordinators and administrators. Thankfully, we are nothaving to devise our own curriculum at this stage and so are making good use of yourexpertise and experience.The Curriculum Implementation Group has been meeting monthly and has been open toeveryone with an interest in being involved. This has resulted in a group of enthusiasticconsultants who have naturally arranged themselves into four module groups with somethemes trailed across modules such as care of the elderly, imaging and pathology. In thesummer, we appointed a Director of Clinical Undergraduate Studies (roughly equivalent to aHospital Dean), Community Medical Education Co-ordinator and Education Co-ordinatorsupported by an administrator and secretary. They will be busy over the next 18 months aswe advertise new posts, dig the foundation for the buildings and work closely with ourpartners in the community, general practice and district general hospitals to ensure thateverything is in place for 2002.Dr. S.A. DillyHead of Undergraduate Medical Education
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