UCL - Teaching Methods

**christhomas71** · 24-01-2010, 08:49 PM

Could someone tell me how the course at UCL is delivered? Lectures/PBL/Labs etc

**Spencer Wells** · 25-01-2010, 12:51 AM

Lectures, labs and tutorials make up the most of it, with large amounts of dissection thrown in and the odd 2 hour PBL session. Then there's the once-weekly sessions that you spend in hospital learning clinical skills, seeing patients or in tutorials.
This is of course only for preclinicals, because when clinical study starts you'll be in hospital 9-5 (or 8-5 for a surgical firm).

**Khush23** · 25-01-2010, 01:57 AM

Hi, just wondering, what sorts of things do you do in the labs? xx

**Spencer Wells** · 26-01-2010, 02:42 AM

There are pharmacology labs where you'll for example administer adrenaline to guinae-pig ileum and measure it's contraction, or where you'll take nitrous oxide or drink vodka and measure how your reaction time and pain threshold change, or get injected with different concentrations of lignocaine to measure its effects. Then there are histology labs, looking at slides, embryology ones using a piece of software called "The Embryonic Disk," and physiology labs involving ECGs and auditory evoked response testing and peripheral nerve conduction studies.

**Khush23** · 26-01-2010, 02:45 AM

Oh wow! That sounds exciting- even more so than the labs we do in Sportex!

Thanks for the info!

By the way, do you have to participate as a subject in experiments involving being injected? I hate being cannulated :/

xxx

**Spencer Wells** · 26-01-2010, 03:09 AM

They don't involve cannulation - iv lignocaine is lethal so it's given subcut and no one is going to force you to do anything that you're not comfortable doing.

**Khush23** · 26-01-2010, 03:11 AM

Ah right- phew! Thanks

**Greys Anatomy :)** · 28-01-2010, 02:30 AM

Are these tutorials PDS? Or is there system teaching in them aswell?
Also when they say 'intergrated' does this mean that there is a mix of clinical experinece with teaching?
And finally, with the SSC's are there opportuinites for languages?

Thanks!

**Greys Anatomy :)** · 31-01-2010, 05:40 PM

anyone know the answers to the above

**Khush23** · 31-01-2010, 05:51 PM

nope..sorry!
However, I don't think there is much clinical teaching at all in the first 2 years!

Hopefully Spencer Wells will be back soon to answer your questions!

xxx