Student Selected Components

for the MBChB degree programme

SSC Menu Module List 2021/22

Year 2 SSC Menu Modules

  • Academic Aspects of Surgery
  • Clinical Research Advancing healthcare for the future
  • COMET The Social determinants health &tackling health inequalities, General Practice and Primary Care
  • Creation of Anatomy E-tutorials
  • Discovering the psychological determinants of unhe
  • Epidemic & pandemic disease: causes, characteristics, effects, diagnosis, management & prevention
  • European Narratives of Illness: Med... 1783 - 1933
  • Forensic Toxicology & Graduate Attributes
  • Genetic Disease: From the lab to the Clinic
  • Genetics
  • Genetics in Disease Causation, Diagnosis Management and Treatment
  • Global and Travel Health - an introduction
  • Graphic Medicine: exploring patient experience and formation of professional identity
  • Introduction to Pain Management
  • Introduction to Precision Medicine
  • Mapping the SDGs in MCBhB year 1 and 2
  • Medical Education Podcasting
  • Medical Education
  • Medical SSC Stage 1: Chinese
  • Medical SSC Stage 1: Spanish
  • Medical SSC Stage 2: French
  • Patient Perspective in Research
  • Patient safety and adverse events
  • Reviewing different types of written assessment and writing MCQs
  • Rock Climbing
  • Skin Biology in Cancer and Disease
  • SSC in Research Methods
  • Surgical Oncology: Colorectal Cancer
  • Virology

Year 3 SSC Menu Modules

  • A prospective national registry of Barretts Oesophagus patients in Scotland
  • Acute knee surgery and lower limb trauma surgery
  • Acute Medicine
  • Acute Medicine (Dumfries)
  • Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) in Scotland
  • Adult Critical care
  • Adult Interventional Radiology
  • Advancing healthcare for the future
  • An introduction to Burns and Plastic Surgery
  • An introduction to vascular surgery and outcome based research
  • Anaesthesia
  • Anaesthesia and management of the Unconscious patient
  • Anaesthesia and perioperative medicine
  • Anaesthesia, Peri-operative Care and Audit
  • Autoimmune endocrine disease in children
  • Basics of Critical Care Medicine
  • Breast cancer surgery
  • Breast cancer- The Patient Journey
  • Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices: Technological Advances in Cardiology
  • Child and adolescent Psychiatry
  • Clinical Haematology
  • Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience and Nootropics From an Ethical Perspective
  • Conflicts of interest and screening
  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Deep End patients and General Practice
  • Design in Healthcare
  • Different surgical approaches for neurovascular patients
  • Diversity in Medical Education: academic enrichment programme for widening participation
  • students
  • Early intervention in type 2 diabetes
  • Effect of COVID on thyroid disease in Children
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Epidemic & pandemic disease, causes, characteristics (Remote)
  • Epidemiology and Clinical Outcomes in Orthopaedics & Surgery
  • Fetal and Maternal Medicine
  • General Haematology with Haemostasis
  • General overview of Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine
  • Genetics (Remote)
  • Head and Neck Cancer – research
  • Head and Neck Oncology
  • History of Medicine
  • Imaging modalities for neurovascular patients
  • Impact of COVID on neurosurgery referrals
  • Inherited Cardiac Conditions - clinical attachment and audit
  • Innovations in Sexual Health
  • Introduction to Clinical Genetics and Genomics
  • Introduction to clinical orthopaedic surgery
  • Limb reconstructive surgery / peripheral nerve surgery
  • Liver disease - diagnosis, assessment and treatment.
  • Modern Lower Limb Arthroplasty
  • Neonatal Medicine
  • Nephrology and Transplantation
  • Neurotology and Vestibular Disorders: Keeping the Balance
  • Obstetric Anaesthesia
  • Ophthalmology
  • Orthopaedic Research & Audit
  • Overview of Respiratory Medicine and Pleural Diseases
  • Paediatric Anaesthesia and Pain Control
  • Paediatric Endocrinology
  • paediatric infectious diseases and immunology
  • Paediatric Surgery: The Scottish Congenital Anomalies Network
  • Palliative Care in the Hospice
  • Pelvic Surgical Oncology
  • Perinatal Psychiatry
  • Practical Medical Law
  • Problem Asthma: Determinants and Management
  • Quality Improvement in the Emergency Department
  • Renal cancer surgery
  • Renal Transplant and Renal failure surgery
  • Reproductive Medicine
  • Respiratory medicine
  • Role of imaging in diagnosis and management of Lung Cancer
  • Skeletal development and growth in childhood chronic and endocrine disorders
  • SSC in Neonatology with Team RAH
  • SSC in Urogynaecology (Gynae & Obs)
  • Sustainability in Surgery
  • Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis: Prevalence of Heart Failure in Diabetes
  • The Climate Crisis and Emerging Infectious Diseases in Primary Care
  • The Hearing Impaired Child
  • The Highs and Lows of Metabolic Disorders
  • The role of sleep in paediatric health and disease
  • Type 1 Diabetes Management – education or technology
  • Upper GI Surgery
  • Vascular Surgery
  • Vertebral artery anatomy, population study
  • What does a neurologist do in a DGH?

Year 3 SSC Self-Proposed Modules

  • A Clinical experience in epilepsy
  • A History of the Contaminated Blood Scandal
  • Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) in Scotland
  • Adult Congenital Heart Disease in Oman
  • An insight into gastroenterology
  • An Introduction to Interventional Radiology
  • An Introduction to Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • An Introduction to Vascular Surgery and Outcome Based Research
  • Anorexia Nervosa: Aetiology, Pathogenesis, Effects & Management
  • Aortic Dissection Presenting as Pulmonary Embolism
  • Cardio-oncology: overview of the detection and management of cancer-derived cardiotoxicity
  • Cardio-Oncology: The Overlap of Cancer and Heart Failure
  • Clinical and scientific aspects of colorectal cancer
  • Clinical and Surgical Aspects of Colorectal Cancer (CRC)
  • Clinical Experience in General Dermatology and Skin Cancer Management
  • Clinical Research in Neurosurgery
  • CT analysis of patients undergoing colorectal resections
  • Dermatology
  • Emergency Medicine Research – Focus on opioid/opiate overdose and naloxone use
  • Endoscopic ultrasound in the diagnosis and follow-up of gastric subepithelial lesions
  • Exploring the public health burden of chronic and difficult to treat conditions, and using a rehabilitation centre in London
  • General/Internal Medicine
  • HaematoOncology in the Adult, Adolescent, BMT and Paediatric Settings
  • Impacts of SIMD on Child & Adolescent Mental Health Outcomes
  • Internal Medicine and General Surgery
  • Introduction to Adult Psychiatry
  • Introduction to Clinical and Public Health aspects of endocrinology
  • Introduction to clinical geriatrics
  • Introduction to Neurology from a Research and Clinical Basis
  • Introduction to Neurosurgery
  • Introduction to Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Introduction to Paediatric Neurosurgery
  • Introduction to plastic surgery & neuroprosthetics
  • Introduction to Renal Medicine
  • Introduction to the management of major blood loss in pre-hospital and emergency department setting
  • Introduction to Trauma and Emergency Radiology
  • Intubations during trauma
  • Meta-review of literature on machine learning in cardiometabolic diseases
  • Oncoplastic Breast Surgery
  • Paediatric Neurology: Utility of Video Diagnostics for Epilepsy
  • Pre-hospital and retrieval Medicine
  • Prognostic factors in laryngeal cancer
  • Robotic Surgery for Kidney Cancer
  • Sexual Health for Gender and Sexual Minorities
  • SSC in dermatology
  • SSC in Ophthalmology
  • Surgery in Urology
  • Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis: Prevalence of Heart Failure in Diabetes
  • The use of cannabis derived products in children with cancer'
  • The Utilisation of Physician Associates in the Emergency Department
  • Vascular surgery
  • Virtual patients in medical education
  • Widening access to medicine

Year 4 SSC Menu Modules

  • Academic Aspects of Surgery
  • Acute Medicine
  • Adolescent health and General Practice or Covid-19 and General Practice
  • Adult Congenital Heart Disease in a national centre
  • An introduction to vascular surgery and outcome based research
  • Anaesthesia and management of the Unconscious patient
  • Anaesthesia and perioperative medicine
  • Anaesthesia, Peri-operative Care and Audit
  • Anaesthesia: experiencing the peri-operative journey
  • Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
  • Care of the Newborn Infant
  • Clinical Dermatology
  • Clinical Research: Advancing healthcare for the future
  • Cognitive neuroscience and nootropics from an ethi
  • Critical Care
  • Deep End and General Practice
  • Dermatology
  • Design in Health Care
  • Early intervention in type 2 diabetes
  • Emergencies in children's ENT
  • Emergency medical admissions
  • Endocrinology and Diabetes
  • Epidemiology and Clinical Outcomes in Orthopaedics & Trauma
  • Gender based violence, health impacts and General Practice or Adolescent health and General Practice or Covid-19 and General Practice
  • General Surgery
  • Haematology
  • Haematology Malignancy a student and patient's perspective
  • Head and neck cancer
  • Hearing Impaired Child
  • Hospice Palliative Care Module
  • Hypertension management in paediatric CKD3-4
  • Impact of the pandemic on functional neurological symptoms
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Innovations in Sexual Health
  • Interventional Radiology - focus on fenestrated grafting and patients outcomes
  • It Takes a Village Child Protection
  • Liaison psychiatry: Interface between Physical and Mental Health
  • Mapping the SDGs in MBChB 1 and 2
  • Medical Research; Big Questions
  • Medicine in Fiction
  • Neonatal medicine
  • Neonates
  • Neurotology and Vestibular Disorders
  • Obstetric Anaesthesia
  • obstetrics and gynaecology
  • Overview of respiratory medicine and pleural diseases
  • Paediatric Anaesthesia and Pain Control
  • Paediatric Cardiology
  • Paediatric Endocrinology
  • Paediatric haematooncology
  • Paediatric infectious diseases and immunology
  • Patient Reported Outcome Measures in Diabetes
  • Patient’s perspectives of primary care
  • Pelvic Surgical Oncology
  • Plastic Surgery including Perineal Reconstruction
  • Preoperative Medicine: Anaesthetic pharmacology and enhanced recovery
  • Problem Asthma: Determinants and Management.
  • Quality Improvement in the Emergency Department
  • Renal cancer surgery
  • Renal Medicine and Transplantation
  • Renal transplantation and renal failure surgery
  • Respiratory Medicine
  • Role of Imaging in the diagnosis and management of Lung cancer
  • Sleep medicine
  • Surgical intervent in paed congenital heart diseas
  • The Hidden Depths of Old Age Psychiatry
  • The highs and lows of metabolic disorders
  • The journey of a stroke patient: from ED to rehabilitation
  • The role of multidisciplinary team work in rare cancers, such as sarcomas. How can MDT ensure safe, equitable, best
  • The use of clinical neurophysiology in the ICU
  • Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Type 1 Diabetes Management – education or technology
  • Upper Gastrointestinal Surgical Oncology
  • Vascular Surgery
  • What does a neurologist do in a DGH?

Year 4 SSC Self-Proposed Modules

  • An Introduction to Emergency Medicine
  • A Friend in Need: Mutual benefits from augmenting clinical placements with student-patient buddy up
  • A fundamental understanding of Motor Neuron Disease
  • A Further Exploration of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease: Clinical Features & Electrophysiology, Management, and the Patient Experience
  • Acute Medicine
  • An Audit of Patient Pain Scoring in Spinal Surgery
  • An Insight into Internal Medicine
  • An Insight into Internal Medicine
  • An introduction into the main ophthalmology presentations and the new technological advancements in ophthalmology
  • An introduction to Anaesthesia and associated sub-specialties
  • An introduction to Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • An investigation in to financial conflicts of interest and screening for atrial fibrillation in the UK
  • An SSC in Critical Care
  • An SSC in Dermatology
  • Anaesthetics and critical care
  • Analysing the lung cancer pathway: from chest X-ray to treatment
  • Artificial Intelligence in Radiology
  • Audit of rapid access chest pain clinics pre- and post-COVID in NHS GGC
  • Burns and Plastic Surgery
  • Cardiac MRI Audit – An audit of CMR findings of patients referred for CMR with suspected myocarditis
  • Cardiothoracic Surgery, Anaesthesia & Intensive Care
  • Chinese Language SSC
  • Clinical and Academic Anaesthesia
  • Clinical Dermatology 2021
  • Clinical Experience in General Dermatology in Bahrain
  • Clinical neurology
  • Clinical oncology: the role of radiotherapy in cancer care
  • Clinical Practice and Research in a Lower-Middle-Income Country
  • Clinical Radiology in Colorectal Cancer
  • Cochlear implants in Congenital Hearing Loss
  • Cognitive neuroscience and PTSD
  • Congenital Heart Disease
  • Critical care and an observational analysis of cardiac output monitoring in critically ill patients
  • Designing clinical placements
  • Dupuytrens Contracture – Molecular, cellular and clinical aspects
  • Elective and Traumatic Orthopaedic Knee Surgery
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Exploring effective studying techniques of medical students
  • Fundamentals and applications of Interventional Radiology
  • General overview of Paediatric Critical Care Medicine
  • General Paediatrics
  • General/Internal Medicine
  • Genetic Markers and Radiological Characteristics of Glioblastomas
  • Genetic testing for long QT syndrome (LQTS) in the West of Scotland
  • Global Seasonality of Human Coronaviruses: A Systematic Review
  • Herbalism and Holistic Care
  • Impact of male FSH levels on the fertility journey of men with azoospermia
  • Innovation in healthcare
  • Insight into Clinical Endocrinology
  • Insight into Perinatal Psychiatry
  • Introduction to Critical Care
  • Introduction to Obstetrics
  • Introduction to Ophthalmology
  • Introduction to paediatric radiology
  • Introduction to Perinatal Psychiatry
  • Introduction to reconstructive plastic surgery, focusing on perineal disease
  • investigate conflicts of interest in public discussions of atrial fibrillation screening
  • Major Trauma and Reconstruction
  • Military Medicine at a Defence Medical Group hospital
  • Molecular, cellular and pre-clinical aspects of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
  • Outcomes in boys with cryptorchidism
  • Paediatric Cardiology
  • Paediatric Intensive Care
  • Paediatric Neurology
  • Paediatric Oncology Presentations
  • Paediatric Opthalmology
  • Palliative Medicine
  • Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
  • Plastic Surgery: The development of an AR model of the Cranial Nerves
  • Postoperative complications COVID 19
  • Primary Hyperparathyroidism and Parathyroid Surgery
  • Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery including Burns
  • Research & Audit in General Practice
  • Rheumatology
  • Service Evaluation of QEUH’s Trauma Provision
  • Skeletal development, growth & in-childhood chronic disorders
  • Smoking Cessation in Cardiology
  • Speckle tracking to assess cardiac function in congenital diaphragmatic hernia
  • Sports Orthopaedics at a glance
  • SSC in Accident and Emergency
  • SSC in Medical Education
  • SSM: Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
  • Standardising The Care of Patients Presenting With Orofacial Granulomatosis to an Oral Medicine Department
  • Stroke Medicine
  • Tendinopathy - Molecular, cellular and clinical aspects
  • The Impact of Covid-19 on Contraceptive Services in a Deep End Practice
  • To explore how the cycle of trauma and physical illness can alter perceptions of memory and cause consequences for a secure sense- of self for patients with personality
  • disorder
  • Trauma and Limb Reconstruction at Glasgow Royal Infirmary
  • Use of machine learning for characterization of medication adherence patterns
  • Use of Thromboprophylaxis Immediately Following Orthopaedic Surgery and its Implementation in the ED