MD5807 Health Humanities Approaches within Health Professions Education

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

The Scottish Credit Accumulation and Transfer (SCOTCAT) system allows credits gained in Scotland to be transferred between institutions. The number of credits associated with a module gives an indication of the amount of learning effort required by the learner. European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credits are half the value of SCOTCAT credits.

SCQF level

SCQF level 11

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.

Availability restrictions

This module is available to students who wish to undertake this as a 15-credit stand-alone module or to those undertaking the Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in Health Professions Education. Please refer to the PgDip/MSc entry requirements on the application webpage https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/medicine/health-professions-education/

Module coordinator

Dr R T Bellis

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Module Staff

Dr Richard Bellis

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Module description

This module will focus on integrating health/medical humanities within health professions education. Students will have the opportunity to explore a range of arts and humanities approaches that can help to optimise, broaden, and deepen learning outcomes within health professions education. This will include considering how theoretical humanities approaches and practical arts learning can be incorporated within teaching practice in a variety of learning contexts. This module will be fully online with a mix of synchronous and asynchronous learning. Live synchronous teaching will be scheduled in GMT. Participants must have access to a device with internet connection, webcam, and microphone.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS MD5801 AND PASS MD5802

Assessment pattern

Coursework - 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework - 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

The module will comprise approximately 2 hours synchronous teaching delivered fortnightly. Attendance will be required for all scheduled synchronous teaching.

Scheduled learning hours

10

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

136

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • demonstrate a critical awareness of health humanities scholarship and its potential role within health professions education.
  • integrate a range of health humanities scholarship into their health professions education practice.
  • plan and deliver health humanities teaching in a healthcare or academic environment.
  • critically reflect on a range of methods that can be used to integrate health humanities into health professions education.