2023/24 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

MEDI0102 Health and Illness

30 creditsClass Size: 46

Module manager: Hilary Bekker
Email: H.L.Bekker@leeds.ac.uk

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

Year running 2023/24

Pre-requisite qualifications

Gateway to Medicine Programme entry requirments

Module replaces

N/A

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

Through seminars, tutorials, and self directed learning students will explore how people make sense of health and illness, the social science theories that help us understand health and illness behaviours, and approaches to recognising how people make treatment decisions.The focus of semester 1 is to identify key clinical areas impacting most of the UK population that have behavioural causes (e.g. cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer) and the health promotion camapigns associated with increasing health protective behaviours and decreasing health damaging behaviours. Students will draw on patient information provided by the NHS, and other organisations, and evaluate critically its reach and usefulness from a psychological and social frameworks in order to inform their thinking about a health promotion campaign. Students will refer to evidence-based policy documents and papers to describe a clinical area and gain familiarity of using evidence to inform their thinking, rather than opinion or non-medical sources. The focus of semester 2 is to describe the framework needed to carry out health services research, and apply it to the delivery of healthcare. The students will have identified a clinical and health promotion campaign context to apply the research skills knowledge they will develop during term 2. The broader context is understanding how research and evidence is used in everydaily clinical practice to support patient and professional reasoning about healthcare and treatment decisions, individually and together.

Objectives

The aim of the Health and Illness Module MEDI0102 is to explore the social science theories and methods used in medicine to help our understanding of health, illness, and use of healthcare.
The module is designed to build a general awareness of topics associated with health, illness and service delivery.
It provides a basic introduction to understand how people make sense of health and illness as citizens, patients and health professionals

Learning outcomes
By the end of the module, students should be able:
1. To explain people’s beliefs about health and illness.
2. To describe links between people’s 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 quantitative and qualitative analysis

Skills outcomes
Development of health literacy skills
Application of social sciences to explain health problems
Presentation skills which demonstrate use of effective verbal communication and critical thinking
Development of academic writing skills to enable dissemination of evidence generation methods, and synthisis of findings

Syllabus

Introduction to the psychological and social frameworks that help people make sense of health behaviours
Understand illness behaviours through the common sense model of illness, and treatment.
Awareness of the role of patient information within the NHS to support patient engagement with healthcare and services
Undesrtanding of differences in health literacy between individuals and the role of cultural, social and population factors.
Awareness of evidence-base medicine and use of evidence within policy documents guiding service delivery and health professional practices
Understanding of research frameworks to generate evidence to inform health practice.
Basic research and critical appraisal skills to apply to the health promotion context.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Seminar	20	3.00	60.00
Independent online learning hours			100.00
Private study hours			140.00
Total Contact hours			60.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Private study

Revision and consolidation of lecture material, preparation for group work, preparation for seminars, preparation of activities for independent project work, and preparation for assessments.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students will provide a short powerpoint presentation of the rationale for the essay (and research protocol) mid-way through the term, for verbal feedback and guidance for working on the assignments.
Students will contribute to feedback sessions at the start of each seminar to check understanding and address any questions arising from the slef directed tasks. Attendance is monitored.
Students will work in groups during seminars, and participate in large-group discussions, to benefit from peer learning and other student experiences.
Students receive detailed feedback on their academic progress via comments on their essay and research protocol assignments, and their appendices.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	Design a public health campaign for a specific health issue (2000 words total)	40.00
Project	Develop a research protocol for a question relating to the health promotion campaign (2000 word total)	60.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

There is compensation between assessments. The marks from both assignments will be combined for the overall module mark. Note, a resit as a first attempt of part 1 or part 2 assessment is permissible in this programme with supporting evidence of mitigation or special circumstances. The weekly self-directed activities are not assessed formatively, and are designed to support students learning and ability to engage in group discussions within the seminar settings. The tasks are not part of a formal assessment and do not contribute to the overall module mark. Students must provide evidence of engaging with these SDL activities through tasks set each week via the submission of appendix items as part of their written assignments as supplemental evidence of their problem solving. Compensation will be allowed between elements

Reading list

There is no reading list for this module

Last updated: 08/05/2024 17:10:02

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