Careers / Population Health placement

The Careers / Population Health placement is a Year 5 placement that starts after the exempting examination in Semester 2.

This is a clinical placement with Population Health learning objectives that are assessed in the form of one short reflective piece broadly covering their understanding of the healthcare needs for population group(s) encountered on their placement; e.g. where they demonstrated knowledge of the applicable public health policies; appropriate preventative care or demonstrated a working knowledge of key social and health challenges around resource allocation for the group(s) they identify.

What the placement involves

One student will attend your practice for four weeks. Students should be timetabled for eight clinical sessions per week. There should be a minimum of four patient-facing clinics with close supervision in preparation for F1.

Students should also review patient records to summarise health needs, and review pathology results and patient-related documentation such as discharge and clinic letters.

Four flexible clinical sessions may include:

• investigating services available to the practice population, including third sector services;
• seeing patients with palliative care conditions/hospice work;
• specific chronic disease management, for example, diabetes and learning disabilities;
• GP with a speciality interest (GPwSI) sessions;
• community services, for example, heart failure nurses, outreach services, mental health, alcohol and drug services, community paediatrics, MDT meetings, and OOHs.

Students can also attend NHS locality meetings (e.g. LHB), considering resource allocation. They can attend patient and carers’ groups, and experience ‘new models of care’ including intermediate care, respite care and social services, with supervision. This will be dependent on the services each practice has.

Two sessions per week are assigned to personal study and remote learning. Mandatory online webinars occur on Wednesday afternoons in the block. The students do not need to be in practice for this.

GP responsibilities

You will:

• meet the students for induction at the start of the placement to agree a timetable and suitable learning objectives;
• provide opportunities to complete mandatory sign-offs;
• complete a mid-placement review and end of placement sign-off;
• timetable four patient-facing clinical sessions per week, and four flexible clinical sessions per week to accommodate the specific Career / Population Health learning objectives;
• provide feedback on attendance and engagement;
• mark two short reflective piece (500 words each) on the student iPad.

Support for GPs

Career / Population Health supervisors will have access to online training and ongoing support from the CBME team. Additional opportunities are available to attend organised University educational events.

Dates for 2024-25

There will be two blocks running this year

• 24.03.25 – 17.04.25
• 22.04.25 – 16.05.25

Payment

Payment will be £2201.50 per student.

Contact us

Get in touch to sign up or ask a question:

Years 3-5 Administrator (CBME) – years3-5cbme@manchester.ac.uk