Acute, Critical and Emergency Medicine MSc

The ACE Medicine programme is aimed at intercalating medical students and will provide students with the opportunity to develop in depth applied knowledge, clinical practice, research skills and professional behaviours in the connected fields of Acute Medicine, Critical Care (including ITU Medicine), Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care. In the core placement modules student will rotate through the specialist areas within one NHS Acute Trust working within clinical teams to apply knowledge, perform and develop clinical skills and learn (and demonstrate) professional behaviours, in often high intensity situations. Student engagement and progress will be assessed by portfolio, guided reflection, alongside separate research modules which are co-located in the clinical placement.

Through exposure to highly integrated practice across, the connected fields of Acute Medicine, Critical Care (including ITU Medicine), Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care, students will gain a much deeper understanding of the acute ‘patient journey’ and the design and operation of NHS systems that deliver optimal care to severely ill patients, including legal, ethical, governance and research components of wider clinical practice, ensuring deep understanding of the inherent linked nature of the specialties with authentic assessment.

In this introductory module, students will be prepared with the underpinning knowledge and relevant clinical skills to support them on their entry into ACE medicine placements, focusing on key basic skills needed for activities in the acute, critical care and emergency medicine setting.

Medical Imaging is an essential component of modern medicine and plays a key role in the care of patients through diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of disease. Imaging in the ACE environment also includes mobile imaging where radiographers and other clinicians are required to obtain images of acutely ill patients who require urgent assessment during a critical period of care. Clinicians must work quickly and calmly under extreme pressure, leading the imaging process and providing the information needed for an immediate diagnosis to ensure effective treatment. An understanding of the teams, equipment, environment and governing regulations are essential for safe working in the ACE environment.
The module covers an introduction to medical imaging in the clinical setting. It outlines the scientific principles involved in the different imaging techniques and image formation and visits current issues in a modern radiology department. It will consolidate students’ MBChB knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathological appearances associated with radiographic imaging. It will then support their further learning in understanding the role of imaging modalities in the rapid diagnosis of trauma cases.

This module has been specifically developed for the Acute, Critical & Emergency Medicine (ACE Medicine) programme. It is a mixed method learning method module with small placement component where students will be placed in the specialist Trauma area within one NHS Acute Trust working within clinical teams to apply knowledge, perform and develop clinical skills and learn (and demonstrate) professional behaviours, in often high intensity situations. Student engagement and progress will be assessed by portfolio and guided reflection.

This module focuses on Trauma specialist delivery – this is the surgical specialty that deals with physical trauma, which accounts for the most common reason for attending an emergency department. Trauma specialists are second-line providers for patients with physical trauma and can be orthopaedics specialists, general or vascular surgeons, plastic surgeons and neurosurgeons. The module provides students with a deeper understanding and application of the principles that surround modern trauma care, in context of the ACE Medicine environment.

This module is a blend of online teaching, short placement in a specialist Trauma unit and exploring the natural links between the students’ specialist clinical placements and the Trauma team.
Through exposure to highly integrated practice across, the connected fields of Acute Medicine, Critical Care (including ITU Medicine), Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care, students will gain a much deeper understanding of the acute ‘patient journey’ and the design and operation of NHS systems that deliver optimal care to severely ill patients, including legal, ethical, governance and research components of wider clinical practice, ensuring deep understanding of the inherent linked nature of the specialities with authentic assessment.

This module has been specifically developed as one of the placement based modules for the Acute, Critical & Emergency Medicine (ACE Medicine) programme. The ACE Medicine programme will provide students with the opportunity to develop in depth applied knowledge, clinical practice, research skills and professional behaviours in the connected fields of Acute Medicine, Critical Care (including ITU Medicine), Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care. Through exposure to highly integrated practice across these speciality areas, students will gain a much deeper understanding of the acute ‘patient journey’ and the design and operation of NHS systems that deliver optimal care to severely ill patients, including legal, ethical, governance and research components of wider clinical practice.
Student engagement and progress will be assessed by portfolio, guided reflection and the placement will also support the separate research modules which are co-located in the clinical placement. Each placement module will focus on one of the three clinical specialty areas; Emergency Medicine, Critical Care and Acute Medicine. The programme focuses on the development of clinical and research skills, with increasing in depth and challenge over the length of the course, meaning the order in which these three clinical placements is undertaken is deliberately unimportant.

This module focuses on Acute Medicine, Acute Medicine is the hospital speciality concerned with the immediate and early specialist assessment and management of adult patients who present to hospital with urgent or emergency medical conditions. There is a focus on the recognition and management of acute medical emergencies, but also on the development of pathways for patients with medical problems who do not require immediate admission. The range of clinical problems encountered in the AMU is very wide, which gives rise to a diverse set of experiences, diagnosis, investigation and management across multiple disciplines.

Students will be expected to be on placement following the normal working practice of Acute Medicine Physicians in the ACE medical setting, devoted to learning in clinical practice, for 5 days per week for 3 weeks, for their timetable placement and for 5 negotiated days.

This module has been specifically developed as one of the placement based modules for the Acute, Critical & Emergency Medicine (ACE Medicine) programme. The ACE Medicine programme will provide students with the opportunity to develop in depth applied knowledge, clinical practice, research skills and professional behaviours in the connected fields of Acute Medicine, Critical Care (including ITU Medicine), Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care. Through exposure to highly integrated practice across these speciality areas, students will gain a much deeper understanding of the acute ‘patient journey’ and the design and operation of NHS systems that deliver optimal care to severely ill patients, including legal, ethical, governance and research components of wider clinical practice.
Student engagement and progress will be assessed by portfolio, guided reflection and the placement will also support the separate research modules which are co-located in the clinical placement. Each placement module will focus on one of the three clinical specialty areas; Emergency Medicine, Critical Care and Acute Medicine. The programme focuses on the development of clinical and research skills, with increasing in depth and challenge over the length of the course, meaning the order in which these three clinical placements is undertaken is deliberately unimportant.

This module focuses on Critical care medicine (IC), is the management of critically ill patients with, at risk of, or recovering from, potentially life-threatening failure of any of the body’s organ systems. It involves the combination of the ability to correct abnormal pathophysiology, whilst simultaneously providing an accurate definitive diagnosis, which enables the development of the critical care treatment plan. Key areas:
Recognition and management of critical care patients
Anaesthetic procedures in the critical care setting
Introduction to legal and ethical issues: patient autonomy, appropriateness of resuscitation and ICU admission.
Invasive monitoring and organ support
Organ donation

Students will be expected to be on placement following the normal working practice of Critical Care Physicians in the ACE medical setting, devoted to learning in clinical practice, for 5 days per week for 3 weeks, for their timetable placement and for 5 negotiated days.

This module has been specifically developed as one of the placement based modules for the Acute, Critical & Emergency Medicine (ACE Medicine) programme. The ACE Medicine programme will provide students with the opportunity to develop in depth applied knowledge, clinical practice, research skills and professional behaviours in the connected fields of Acute Medicine, Critical Care (including ITU Medicine), Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care. Through exposure to highly integrated practice across these speciality areas, students will gain a much deeper understanding of the acute ‘patient journey’ and the design and operation of NHS systems that deliver optimal care to severely ill patients, including legal, ethical, governance and research components of wider clinical practice.

Student engagement and progress will be assessed by portfolio, guided reflection and the placement will also support the separate research modules which are co-located in the clinical placement. Each placement module will focus on one of the three clinical specialty areas; Emergency Medicine, Critical Care and Acute Medicine. The programme focuses on the development of clinical and research skills, with increasing in depth and challenge over the length of the course, meaning the order in which these three clinical placements is undertaken is deliberately unimportant.

This module focuses on Emergency Medicine (EM) specialist delivery and experience, historically known in the UK as Accident and Emergency (A&E), and is the medical specialty that deals with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention.

Students will be expected to be on placement following the normal working practice of Emergency Physicians in the ACE medical setting, devoted to learning in clinical practice, for 5 days per week for 3 weeks, for their timetable placement and for 5 negotiated days.

This module has been developed as part of the 30-credit research component of the placement-based, Intercalated Masters Programmes being developed by the School of Medicine. The research carried out within these programmes is based on the specialist area of one of the first two ‘core’ clinical placements. In the core clinical placements, students rotate through specialist clinical areas (e.g. in a NHS Acute Secondary Care Trust), apply knowledge, perform and develop clinical & scientific skills and learn (and demonstrate) professional behaviours, at times in high intensity situations.
This module is designed to complement the core clinical placement modules by providing structured academic research activities, revisiting subjects and topics covered in the core modules in greater detail and developing the student’s knowledge and research skills in accordance with the specific learning needs identified by the student and supervisors.
Students will be expected to be on placement following the normal working practice of Specialty Physicians in the ACE medical setting for 4 days per week for 10 weeks (2 days focused on research in practice settings MDSC256 & MDSC257, research modules and 2 days devoted to learning in clinical practice, MDSC251,MDSC252 & MDSC253).

This module has been specifically developed as one of the placement based modules for the Acute, Critical & Emergency Medicine (ACE Medicine) programme. The ACE Medicine programme will provide students with the opportunity to develop in depth applied knowledge, clinical practice, research skills and professional behaviours in the connected fields of Acute Medicine, Critical Care (including ITU Medicine), Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care. Through exposure to highly integrated practice across these speciality areas, students will gain a much deeper understanding of the acute ‘patient journey’ and the design and operation of NHS systems that deliver optimal care to severely ill patients, including legal, ethical, governance and research components of wider clinical practice.
Student engagement and progress will be assessed by portfolio, guided reflection and the placement will also support the separate research modules which are co-located in the clinical placement. Each placement module will focus on one of the three clinical specialty areas; Emergency Medicine, Critical Care and Acute Medicine. The programme focuses on the development of clinical and research skills, with increasing in depth and challenge over the length of the course, meaning the order in which these three clinical placements is undertaken is deliberately unimportant.

This module focuses on Acute Medicine, Acute Medicine is the hospital speciality concerned with the immediate and early specialist assessment and management of adult patients who present to hospital with urgent or emergency medical conditions. There is a focus on the recognition and management of acute medical emergencies, but also on the development of pathways for patients with medical problems who do not require immediate admission. The range of clinical problems encountered in the AMU is very wide, which gives rise to a diverse set of experiences, diagnosis, investigation and management across multiple disciplines.

Students will be expected to be on placement following the normal working practice of Acute Medicine Physicians in the ACE medical setting, devoted to learning in clinical practice, for 5 days per week for 3 weeks, for their timetable placement and for 5 negotiated days.

This module has been specifically developed as one of the placement based modules for the Acute, Critical & Emergency Medicine (ACE Medicine) programme. The ACE Medicine programme will provide students with the opportunity to develop in depth applied knowledge, clinical practice, research skills and professional behaviours in the connected fields of Acute Medicine, Critical Care (including ITU Medicine), Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care. Through exposure to highly integrated practice across these speciality areas, students will gain a much deeper understanding of the acute ‘patient journey’ and the design and operation of NHS systems that deliver optimal care to severely ill patients, including legal, ethical, governance and research components of wider clinical practice.
Student engagement and progress will be assessed by portfolio, guided reflection and the placement will also support the separate research modules which are co-located in the clinical placement. Each placement module will focus on one of the three clinical specialty areas; Emergency Medicine, Critical Care and Acute Medicine. The programme focuses on the development of clinical and research skills, with increasing in depth and challenge over the length of the course, meaning the order in which these three clinical placements is undertaken is deliberately unimportant.

This module focuses on Critical care medicine (IC), is the management of critically ill patients with, at risk of, or recovering from, potentially life-threatening failure of any of the body’s organ systems. It involves the combination of the ability to correct abnormal pathophysiology, whilst simultaneously providing an accurate definitive diagnosis, which enables the development of the critical care treatment plan. Key areas:
Recognition and management of critical care patients
Anaesthetic procedures in the critical care setting
Introduction to legal and ethical issues: patient autonomy, appropriateness of resuscitation and ICU admission.
Invasive monitoring and organ support
Organ donation

Students will be expected to be on placement following the normal working practice of Critical Care Physicians in the ACE medical setting, devoted to learning in clinical practice, for 5 days per week for 3 weeks, for their timetable placement and for 5 negotiated days.

This module has been specifically developed as one of the placement based modules for the Acute, Critical & Emergency Medicine (ACE Medicine) programme. The ACE Medicine programme will provide students with the opportunity to develop in depth applied knowledge, clinical practice, research skills and professional behaviours in the connected fields of Acute Medicine, Critical Care (including ITU Medicine), Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care. Through exposure to highly integrated practice across these speciality areas, students will gain a much deeper understanding of the acute ‘patient journey’ and the design and operation of NHS systems that deliver optimal care to severely ill patients, including legal, ethical, governance and research components of wider clinical practice.

Student engagement and progress will be assessed by portfolio, guided reflection and the placement will also support the separate research modules which are co-located in the clinical placement. Each placement module will focus on one of the three clinical specialty areas; Emergency Medicine, Critical Care and Acute Medicine. The programme focuses on the development of clinical and research skills, with increasing in depth and challenge over the length of the course, meaning the order in which these three clinical placements is undertaken is deliberately unimportant.

This module focuses on Emergency Medicine (EM) specialist delivery and experience, historically known in the UK as Accident and Emergency (A&E), and is the medical specialty that deals with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention.

Students will be expected to be on placement following the normal working practice of Emergency Physicians in the ACE medical setting, devoted to learning in clinical practice, for 5 days per week for 3 weeks, for their timetable placement and for 5 negotiated days.

This module has been developed as part of the 30-credit research component of the placement-based, Intercalated Masters Programmes being developed by the School of Medicine. The research carried out within these programmes is based on the specialist area of one of the first two ‘core’ clinical placements. In the core clinical placements, students rotate through specialist clinical areas (e.g. in a NHS Acute Secondary Care Trust), apply knowledge, perform and develop clinical & scientific skills and learn (and demonstrate) professional behaviours, at times in high intensity situations. This module is designed to complement the core clinical placement modules by providing structured academic research activities, revisiting subjects and topics covered in the core modules in greater detail and developing the student’s knowledge and research skills in accordance with the specific learning needs identified by the student and supervisors.

Students will be expected to be on placement following the normal working practice of Speciality Physicians in the ACE medical setting, full time for 8 weeks, focused on research in the clinical practice settings.

This module has been specifically developed as one of the placement based modules for the Acute, Critical & Emergency Medicine (ACE Medicine) programme. The ACE Medicine programme will provide students with the opportunity to develop in depth applied knowledge, clinical practice, research skills and professional behaviours in the connected fields of Acute Medicine, Critical Care (including ITU Medicine), Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care. Through exposure to highly integrated practice across these speciality areas, students will gain a much deeper understanding of the acute ‘patient journey’ and the design and operation of NHS systems that deliver optimal care to severely ill patients, including legal, ethical, governance and research components of wider clinical practice.
Student engagement and progress will be assessed by portfolio, guided reflection and the placement will also support the separate research modules which are co-located in the clinical placement. Each placement module will focus on one of the three clinical specialty areas; Emergency Medicine, Critical Care and Acute Medicine. The programme focuses on the development of clinical and research skills, with increasing in depth and challenge over the length of the course, meaning the order in which these three clinical placements is undertaken is deliberately unimportant.

This module focuses on Critical care medicine (IC), is the management of critically ill patients with, at risk of, or recovering from, potentially life-threatening failure of any of the body’s organ systems. It involves the combination of the ability to correct abnormal pathophysiology, whilst simultaneously providing an accurate definitive diagnosis, which enables the development of the critical care treatment plan. Key areas:
Recognition and management of critical care patients
Anaesthetic procedures in the critical care setting
Introduction to legal and ethical issues: patient autonomy, appropriateness of resuscitation and ICU admission.
Invasive monitoring and organ support
Organ donation

Students will be expected to be on placement following the normal working practice of Critical Care Physicians in the ACE medical setting, devoted to learning in clinical practice, for 5 days per week for 3 weeks, for their timetable placement and for 5 negotiated days.

This module has been specifically developed as one of the placement based modules for the Acute, Critical & Emergency Medicine (ACE Medicine) programme. The ACE Medicine programme will provide students with the opportunity to develop in depth applied knowledge, clinical practice, research skills and professional behaviours in the connected fields of Acute Medicine, Critical Care (including ITU Medicine), Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care. Through exposure to highly integrated practice across these speciality areas, students will gain a much deeper understanding of the acute ‘patient journey’ and the design and operation of NHS systems that deliver optimal care to severely ill patients, including legal, ethical, governance and research components of wider clinical practice.
Student engagement and progress will be assessed by portfolio, guided reflection and the placement will also support the separate research modules which are co-located in the clinical placement. Each placement module will focus on one of the three clinical specialty areas; Emergency Medicine, Critical Care and Acute Medicine. The programme focuses on the development of clinical and research skills, with increasing in depth and challenge over the length of the course, meaning the order in which these three clinical placements is undertaken is deliberately unimportant.

This module focuses on Acute Medicine, Acute Medicine is the hospital speciality concerned with the immediate and early specialist assessment and management of adult patients who present to hospital with urgent or emergency medical conditions. There is a focus on the recognition and management of acute medical emergencies, but also on the development of pathways for patients with medical problems who do not require immediate admission. The range of clinical problems encountered in the AMU is very wide, which gives rise to a diverse set of experiences, diagnosis, investigation and management across multiple disciplines.

Students will be expected to be on placement following the normal working practice of Acute Medicine Physicians in the ACE medical setting, devoted to learning in clinical practice, for 5 days per week for 3 weeks, for their timetable placement and for 5 negotiated days.

This module has been specifically developed as one of the placement based modules for the Acute, Critical & Emergency Medicine (ACE Medicine) programme. The ACE Medicine programme will provide students with the opportunity to develop in depth applied knowledge, clinical practice, research skills and professional behaviours in the connected fields of Acute Medicine, Critical Care (including ITU Medicine), Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care. Through exposure to highly integrated practice across these speciality areas, students will gain a much deeper understanding of the acute ‘patient journey’ and the design and operation of NHS systems that deliver optimal care to severely ill patients, including legal, ethical, governance and research components of wider clinical practice.

Student engagement and progress will be assessed by portfolio, guided reflection and the placement will also support the separate research modules which are co-located in the clinical placement. Each placement module will focus on one of the three clinical specialty areas; Emergency Medicine, Critical Care and Acute Medicine. The programme focuses on the development of clinical and research skills, with increasing in depth and challenge over the length of the course, meaning the order in which these three clinical placements is undertaken is deliberately unimportant.

This module focuses on Emergency Medicine (EM) specialist delivery and experience, historically known in the UK as Accident and Emergency (A&E), and is the medical specialty that deals with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention.

Students will be expected to be on placement following the normal working practice of Emergency Physicians in the ACE medical setting, devoted to learning in clinical practice, for 5 days per week for 3 weeks, for their timetable placement and for 5 negotiated days.