INTRAMURAL ROTATIONS - 2023/4
Module code: VMS5001
Module Overview
This module consists of 7 x 4 week intra-mural rotation blocks and a Transition into the Profession unit of attendance, which is delivered during the introduction and return weeks. The module rotations provide students with opportunities to further develop day one knowledge, competences, attributes and skills through their integration and application in a workplace-based placement providing an authentic, safe and supervised learning environment, facilitating the transition from student to confident, competent and compassionate veterinarians.
Opportunities are provided in a network of clinical practices or facilities which include:
- Small animal practice
- Equine practice
- Production animal practice
- Referral practice (2 weeks)
- Emergency and Critical Care (2 weeks)
- Veterinary public health and veterinary pathology
- A choice of an additional core rotation elective in Equine, Production Animal or Small Animal practice.
Within these practice settings students will be given opportunities to develop and demonstrate the knowledge, professional skills and attributes, practical skills and clinical competences expected of newly-qualified veterinary surgeons. This will be achieved by facilitation of targeted experiences and engagements during the placements, aligned to the following six domains of clinical practice;
- Veterinary knowledge
- Technical skills
- Clinical Reasoning
- Communication skills
- Patient Care
- Professionalism and professional skills
Module provider
School of Veterinary Medicine
Module Leader
POLLARD Paul (Vet Med)
Number of Credits: 120
ECTS Credits: 60
Framework: FHEQ Level 7
Module cap (Maximum number of students): N/A
Overall student workload
Workshop Hours: 80
Clinical Placement Hours: 920
Independent Learning Hours: 120
Seminar Hours: 30
Tutorial Hours: 30
Captured Content: 20
Module Availability
Year long
Prerequisites / Co-requisites
Successful completion of all of the units of study in years one to four of the BVMSci programme following the late summer examinations.
Module content
Indicative content includes:
- Regular attendance at the partner practices under the supervision of the practice partner and the lectures in veterinary clinical practice (LVCPs)
- Active participation in all aspects of the practice including out of hours and management of emergency cases
- Regular attendance and active participation throughout the VPPH rotation at the University and for off-site visits
- Regular attendance at transition to profession workshops
Assessment pattern
Assessment type | Unit of assessment | Weighting |
---|---|---|
Examination | SAQ - SMALL ANIMAL GP (90mins) | 15 |
Examination | SAQ - PRODUCTION ANIMAL (90mins) | 15 |
Examination | SAQ - EQUINE (90mins) | 15 |
Examination | SAQ - VETERINARY PATHOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH (90mins) | 15 |
Coursework | PORTFOLIO | 40 |
Alternative Assessment
Where a student has failed the e-portolio, relevant individual assets will be reassessed using virtual or simulated case material.
Assessment Strategy
The nature of the 120 credit module allows for a continuum of extensive feedback and evaluation as students build their skills and competences across the various placements. The student will receive weekly global assessment feedback across the six competency domains, which will feed forward in to the next placement, and contribute to their portfolio.
Formative assessment and feedback
Lecturers in Veterinary Clinical Practice (LVCPs) will have regular meetings with students to monitor feedback and formatively assess their portfolio assets, which includes case-reflections, case reports, audits, objective and competency reflections, and various completion tasks (case logs and skills logs). A marking rubric will be used for each asset of the portfolio.
Summative Assessment
The strategy is designed to use a variety of modalities to assess the full range of knowledge, skills and attributes required for day one competency and demonstrate achievement of programme outcomes.
The elements used include rotation-specific short answer questions (SAQs), excluding referral, ECC and core rotation electives, which occur in the return weeks after every two rotations; and a Portfolio, which will be summatively assessed upon completion of the module, based on achieving minimum requirements within each asset.
The summative assessment for this module is summarised below
Rotation
Portfolio 40%
Rotation-specific short answer questions
15% x 4 = 60%
SA GP
Students will submit written assets and undertake portfolio assignments during the year which will be marked by Lectures in Veterinary Clinical Practices and Clinical Instruction Mentors
15%
Core Rotation Electives
Production Animal
15%
Equine
15%
VPPH
15%
Referral
ECC
The percentage mark for each of the portfolio assets is given in the table below.
Total GPA Percentage
50%
MiniCEX
Pass/Fail
EPAs
Pass/Fail
Written Assets
50%
Surgical Case report
5
Non-Surgical Case report
5
Equine Case Report
5
Herd Health Report
5
Isolation report
5
Abattoir report
5
PM report
5
Referral Letter
5
Clinical Audit
5
Reflective Essay
5
If a student is adjudged not to have engaged sufficiently with the opportunities provided such that a GPA score(s) cannot be awarded based upon the activities observed then a further period of IMR may be required.
Alternative Assessment:
Where a student has failed the e-portolio, relevant individual assets will be reassessed using virtual or simulated case material.
Qualifying Conditions
This entire module is core whereby every unit of assessment is a barrier assessment.
- Students must attain a pass grade in the ePortfolio.
- The pass mark for the online rotation-specific clinical assessment is 50%.
- Each Asset within the portfolio has a pass mark of 50%
Second attempts for the rotation-specific short answer questions will be offered during the summer examination period
Portfolio threshold requirements
Asset
Threshold requirement
Rotation-specific short answer questions
Cumulative average of >3.0 in each competency domains
Global Performance Assessment
(Weekly 360-degree feedback on placement)
Cumulative average of >3.0 in each competency domains
Mini Clinical Evaluation Exercise
Meet minimum requirements in history taking and clinical examination in key species; dog, cat, horse and farm animal
Entrustable Professional Activities
Formative only
Skills log
Completion task after each placement
Case log
Completion task after each placement
Day One Competency review
Completion task after each placement
Objective scope and reflection
Completion task after each placement
Case reports
Minimum of 50% grading in each report
Letter of Referral
Minimum of 50% grading in each letter
Herd Health Plan
Minimum of 50% grading
Post-mortem Report
Minimum of 50% grading
Abattoir Report
Minimum of 50% grading
Knowledge Summary
Minimum of 50% grading
Critical appraisal of isolation facility and protocols
Minimum of 50% grading
Clinical audit
Minimum of 50% grading
Day One Competency reflective essay
Minimum of 50% grading
Module aims
- This module aims to further develop student day one competences, attributes and skills through their integration and application in a workplace-based placement providing an authentic, safe and supervised learning environment, facilitating the transition from student to confident, competent and compassionate veterinarians
Learning outcomes
Attributes Developed | Ref | ||
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001 | On successful completion of this module students should, in accordance with the RCVS Day One Competences, be able to demonstrate the knowledge, professional skills and attributes, practical skills and clinical competences expected of newly-qualified veterinary surgeons | KCPT | LO 5.1.1 |
Attributes Developed
C - Cognitive/analytical
K - Subject knowledge
T - Transferable skills
P - Professional/Practical skills
Methods of Teaching / Learning
The learning and teaching strategy is designed to:
- Allow active participation in all aspects of veterinary practice within a relevant context to achieve the RCVS Day One competencies.
- Promote demonstration of the following six domains of competence;
- Veterinary knowledge
- Technical skills
- Clinical Reasoning
- Communication skills
- Patient Care
- Professionalism
- Embody a student-centred developmental approach to clinical education
- Provide supervision and mentorship in each placement via clinical instruction mentors and lecturers in veterinary clinical practice (LVCPs)
- The learning and teaching methods include:
- Supervision of case management and clinical interactions within practice
- Observation and formative evaluation of technical skills performance
- Formal and informal case discussions with the clinicians, nurses and support staff
- Engaging and interacting with all members of the veterinary team
- Portfolio writing with continual review and feedback from LVCPs
- Students will be able to track their clinical experience through use of a structured case log and clinical skills log
- For the pathology and public health rotation:
- In-house case discussions with the pathologists and technical staff
- Abattoir and processing plant site visits and data collection, management
- Portfolio writing based on cases and reflections about the experiences
- Mid placement review and feedback of the portfolio by the VPPH tutors
Indicated Lecture Hours (which may also include seminars, tutorials, workshops and other contact time) are approximate and may include in-class tests where one or more of these are an assessment on the module. In-class tests are scheduled/organised separately to taught content and will be published on to student personal timetables, where they apply to taken modules, as soon as they are finalised by central administration. This will usually be after the initial publication of the teaching timetable for the relevant semester.
Reading list
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Programmes this module appears in
Programme | Semester | Classification | Qualifying conditions |
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Veterinary Medicine and Science BVMSci (Hons)(CORE) | Year-long | Core | Each unit of assessment must be passed at 50% to pass the module |
Please note that the information detailed within this record is accurate at the time of publishing and may be subject to change. This record contains information for the most up to date version of the programme / module for the 2023/4 academic year.