An in-depth knowledge of the structure and function of the human body both in health and in illness is essential for the practice of medicine. Such knowledge is provided through this module.

This module provides and understanding and an ability to manage a comprehensive range of health problemes using the scientific principles that underpin medicine. It comprises learning units covering different body organs and clinical disciplines: - Life Structure: musculo-skeletal system, rheumatology, orthopaedics, traumatology, plastic surgery, skin and dermatology - Life Cycle: reproduction and development, child health (paediatrics), obstetrics and gynaecology, sexual health, ageing, death - Life Maintenance: alimentary system including liver, gastroenterology, endocrinology, renal medicine, urology, nutrition - Life Protection: immunology, infection, haematology, oncology, preventative medicine, genito-urinary medicine - Life Support: cardiology/cardiovascular surgery, respiratory medicine, ENT - Life Control: nervous system, neurology/neurosurgery, vision and ophthalmology, psychiatry, psychology These are supplemented by an Introductory unit at the start of the year which introduces students to PBL and a multi-systems unit at the end of year one which provides an opportunity to revise learning objectives from previous units. It also provides a stimulus to integrate mechanisms learnt in different modules to explain a new clinical scenario

Explain the normal structure and function of the human body and of each of the major body organ systems Describe the various elements of the Life Cycle Recognise diseases, their causes & the ways in which they change the structure and function of the human body Describe the major pharmacological principles and their use in choosing, evaluating and monitoring drug treatments Apply the principles of therapeutics in the management of disease

As its name implies, this module focuses on the cognitive domain while the related affective domain is the focus of the complementary module BM4021. However, the entire programme is both vertically and horizontally integrated such that there is significant overlap of its three domains of Knowledge of Health & Illness (i.e. the cognitive domain); Clinical Skills (the psychomotor domain) and Professional Competencies (the affective domain) in all years.

As its name implies, this module focuses on the cognitive domain while the related psychomotor domain is the focus of the complementary module BM4011. However, the entire programme is both vertically and horizontally integrated such that there is significant overlap of its three domains of Knowledge of Health & Illness (i.e. the cognitive domain); Clinical Skills (the psychomotor domain) and Professional Competencies (the affective domain) in all years.

In Years 1 & 2 of the programme students will get a thorough grounding in the basic sciences relevant to medicine through the study of 66 carefully designed PBL (Problem Based Learning) cases. There are pre-determined learning objectives for every week. These will be explicitly stated in both the æStudent GuideÆ and æTutor GuideÆ that have been developed for each PBL case. In the relevant week, there will be a small number of scheduled lectures and laboratory practicals that will relate to these specific learning objectives. However, the biomedical sciences are predominantly studied in the context of clinical PBL cases.