BSc Acute, Critical and Emergency Care
Please note the new deadline for applications for the School Scholarships is Monday 13th May. The application process remains the same.
Course overview:
The ACE Care 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 highly connected fields of Acute Medicine, Critical Care (including ITU Medicine), Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care.
Introduction
This course will deliver a clinical research learning and placement-based experience that encapsulates the key areas of each speciality, whilst ensuring deep understanding of the inherent linked nature of the specialties with authentic assessment.
The programme will be delivered through a blended process incorporating, lectures, online learning, clinical research and placement-based learning opportunities with authentic assessments, papers, posters and oral presentations. In addition, you will develop the qualities and transferable skills necessary to make decisions in complex and unpredictable contexts; and learn how to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions in support of patent-based medicine in the ACE environment.
You will learn about:
- Key clinical skills for high intensity clinical situations
- Specialist assessment and management of adult patients with emergency medical conditions
- Management of critically ill patients
- Specialist delivery of emergency medicine
- An understanding of the multi-disciplinary approach and decision-making processes to deliver optimal care to patients who have sustained physical trauma
- Role of clinical imaging in diagnosis and treatment of patients in the ACE environment
Teaching block one runs from September to winter break.
Module Information
MDSC260 – Introduction to Clinical Research and Practice in the Specialty Clinical Environment
- In this module, students will be given an introduction to the underpinning knowledge and relevant clinical skills to support them on their entry into clinical research.
MDSC261 – Clinical Imaging – Diagnostics
- This module is designed to provide students with an understanding of the different medical imaging modalities and how they are applied to the clinical management of patents.
MDSC262 – Multi-Specialty Approach to Acute Patient Care
- This module has been specially developed to provide students with an understanding of how a multi-specialist approach is employed in the diagnosis and management of the acutely ill patient.
Teaching block two runs from winter break through to spring break.
Module Information
MDSC263 –The Patient Care Experience (Placement)
- This module aims to provide students with work-based experience in a specialist clinical area (in an NHS Secondary Care Trust).
MDSC264 – Intercalation Clinical Research Project
- The module provides an opportunity to undertake a clinical research project in a field of specialist practice. The project is taught in the style of a clinical supervisor-trainee interaction.
How to Apply
Admission criteria:
Successful completion of 3 years of a GMC recognised undergraduate basic medical education degree programme, with applicants in good academic and professional standing. Selection will be via a composite score which incorporates relative academic performance, evidence of proactive active engagement in one of the specialist clinical areas or student society, or Charity, or sport (personal or coaching) and personal statement.
The personal statement should explain why you want to do the programme and what it will mean for you. It should also cover your active engagement with any of the activities listed above. This should be incorporated in 1 page A4 maximum (not including transcript) Arial 11pt minimum.
Please submit your transcript and personal statement to ACE.Medicine ACE.Medicine@liverpool.ac.uk. The deadline to apply is Monday 13th May 2024.
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