Year 2 Student Doctors (Liverpool)

Placement overview

The Year 2 Clinical placement is an exciting, memorable, and sometimes daunting time. For many student doctors, this will be first time they have met with patients and future colleagues in a clinical environment. For others, who may be already qualified in a clinical profession or who have worked in a clinical environment, there is still an adjustment of focus to be made as the journey towards becoming a doctor begins in a tangible way.

Aims for the Placement

The experience of the ward or environment – the aim should be to begin to practice skills learnt in Communication for Clinical Practice (CCP) and Clinical Skills on real patients; this is an opportunity to practice taking histories, presenting histories, performing examinations and procedural skills and gain feedback from clinicians. The emphasis should NOT be on learning about the particular speciality of the clinical environment. This will be the focus in Years 3 -5 when students rotate around each specialty.

In Year 2, the focus is on learning and practicing these fundamental behaviours and skills.

The experience of the outpatient setting - attending clinics; allowing opportunity to observe an experienced doctor or other clinician in action.

Forming a relationship with a team - where possible, by attending the same ward for each of placement week students will start to feel comfortable with the team around them.

If you would like further information on the Y2 Curriculum please contact the undergraduate admin team on:

Wih-tr.undergraduatecentre@nhs.net