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Learning
At Peninsula, we don't learn in the traditional way you'll all be used to. Gone are the days of lectures followed by exams, modules followed by mini-tests. We like things that have 3 or 4 letter names and we love it!! Below you'll find an account of what to expect.
| PBL | The backbone of our studying here revolves around Problem Based Learning. Every 2 weeks, we get a case study centred around a main area of the body. For example, a case study might involve a patient with hypertension going to see his doctor. From this, in groups of 8, we form questions about the case study trying to ask as varied questions as possible such as treatment, epidemiology, hospital tests and a word you'll learn to hate, psycho-social relations of doctors, patients and their families. You go off and do SDL and come back next week and answer the questions as a group from your research. |
| SDL | Self-directed Learning. Basically, it does exactly what it says on the tin. Your own study relating to what you want to learn. You're encouraged to use both PBL questions and questions that you ask yourself i.e. that lecturer used a funny word, what does that mean? Enter Wikipedia! |
| LSRC | Life Science Resource Centre - now you get why we use the short version. Two 3 hour sessions every fortnight with a large group lecture, anatomy classes, some time to work through problems sheets, do SDL or have histology lectures and then anatomy workshops where we explore anatomy on each other by drawing lines on their body in coloured pens! |
| CSRC | Clinical Skills Resource Centre. This is where we learn basic clinical skills such as history-taking, taking blood pressure, stitches, taking blood, examinations etc. You practice on each other or talking to actors and learn the bread and butter of actually being a doctor. Done in a hospital with nurses on deeply weird fake arms, bottoms and genitalia. This all leads up to SIM-MAN, a simulated patient (i.e. a very sophisticated manikin) who talks to you and basically always ends up dying |
| SSU | Student Selected Unit. Basically a 3 week essay, but this can be very different depending on what you choose. You make selections and then get allocated an SSU, 3 times a year. You have contact sessions with experts where you select a title within your topic and you research and write a 2000 word paper. For example - Topic: Smoking and Lung Cancer, Title: Mechanism of Carcinogens in Lung Cancer. Some SSU's have clinical basis where you get to see your topic in a hospital and learn from consultants, while others are literally meet a couple of times and then you're off drinking for 3 weeks and occasionally writing something down. If you choose anything homeopathy, you're in for a free ride. These are marked and assessed and you have to score above a certain mark to pass or you have to redo it |
| Plenaries | Typical Lectures, big room, all are filmed and then streamed online which really makes you want to get out of bed... right? Very useful and usually on interesting subjects |
| Placement | One every 2 weeks. In first year they are very basic, but usually involve going to a deaf school, getting a free massage at a homeopathic centre, sitting in on GPs or looking at welfare. Very interesting though, and a chance to apply what you've learned! |
| JIGSAW | Where we talk about our placements in the same groups we have for PBL. Identify objectives and what we should learn from the experience and how to improve ourselves |
| EMILY | You will fall in love with emily. She is well fit! And also, a complete online learning environment, where you access lectures, notes, anatomy lessons, cool quizzes and learning tools. Basically anything you can learn from, it's |
