2021/22 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

MEDI0102 Health and Illness

30 creditsClass Size: 46

Module manager: Darren Shickle
Email: d.schickle@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2021/22

Pre-requisite qualifications

Gateway to Medicine Programme entry requirments

Module replaces

N/A

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

The course will provide a basic introduction to understanding health and illness through sessions focusing on the components of the common sense model of illness and associated concepts including: symptoms; health literacy; cultural and individual differences; cognitions; emotions; coping and adjusting; treatment beliefs. The students will identify research exploring patient beliefs about the health problem, and experiences of illness. The teaching will help students explore the psychological and social frameworks that help people make sense of illness by focusing on specific health problems identified within their small groups. The students will draw on patient information provided by the NHS, and other organisations, to inform patients about the health problem, and treatment options to critically evaluate the utility of the information from a psychological and social framework (e.g. GP/ hospital/ NHS website/ other open-access website). They will be asked to consider how useful the information is from different perspectives, e.g. child, parent, lower/ higher socio-economic group, British/ other culture, English speaking/ other, etc. The students will identify what and why they would change the content of the leaflet, informed by their understanding and research of the common sense model of illness, treatment beliefs, and health literacy.

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should be able to explore how using social science methods in medicine helps our understanding of health and illness, and people’s use of healthcare.

Learning outcomes
1. To explain people’s beliefs about health and illness.
2. To articulate the links between peoples between beliefs and emotions in managing health and illness states.
3. To explore differences in people’s understanding of illness.
4. To describe components known to facilitate people’s understanding of (written) health information.
5. To apply evidence of how people make sense of health and illness
6. To develop an understanding of basic research skills applied to project work including an introduction to statistical anlalysis

Skills outcomes
Development of health literacy skills

Interpretation of information from charts, graphs and tables

Group working skills

Presentation skills which demonstrate use of effective verbal and non-verbal communication

Syllabus

Understanding health and illness through the common sense model of illness and associated concepts.
Health literacy; cultural and individual differences; cognitions; emotions; coping and adjusting; treatment beliefs.
Research evidence for patient beliefs about the health problem, and experiences of illness.
Introduction to the psychological and social frameworks that help people make sense of illness
Patient information provided by the NHS, and other organisations, to inform patients about the health problem,
Treatment options to critically evaluate the utility of the information from a psychological and social framework (e.g. GP/ hospital/ NHS website/ other open-access website).
Accessibility of information from different perspectives, e.g. child, parent, lower/ higher socio-economic group, British/ other culture, English speaking/ other, etc.
Basic research skills for project work.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Workshop	16	2.00	32.00
Lecture	20	1.00	20.00
Tutorial	20	1.00	20.00
Independent online learning hours			88.00
Private study hours			140.00
Total Contact hours			72.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Private study

Revision and consolidation of lecture material, preparation for group work, preparation for formative assessment, independent project work.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Formative feedback will be provided on drafts of their health promotion campaign group task in good time for revisions to be made to final versions. Formative feedback on class contribution will be provided through tutorials sessions to ensure development of understanding of curriculum concepts.
Student will complete classroom and self-directed learning tasks to compile their portfolio and will receive regular formative feedback on these. The 5 tasks elected by students from semester 1 will be marked at the start of semester 2 so that students can have summative feedback to help with the tasks that they will submit in semester 2.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Group Project	Design a health campaign for a defined demographic group for a specific health issue (5,000 words total)	50.00
Portfolio	Students select 10 out of 20 weekly tasks to be assessed (5 from each semester). Each task will be up to 500 words each).	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Group Presentation - where an individual needs to retake the assessment to pass the module, an individual presentation, based on the project, will be offered. Compensation will be allowed between elements

Reading list

There is no reading list for this module

Last updated: 30/06/2021 16:23:41

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