1. Trials and Treatments
Unit 11: Science in Medicine Assessed by Teresa Greer
Start date: March 2nd 2009 Hand in date: June 12th 2009
Purpose
This unit will provide students with a greater understanding of how disorders are treated
and how the tools to treat them are developed. Students will look at the following:
✓ Drugs and techniques used to treat specific disorders
✓ Diagnosis techniques
✓ Drug development and limitations
✓ Who uses and who doesn’t get medicine
✓ Who chooses not to accept certain treatment that are available to them
Scenario
You are going to write a full report on treatment for disorders, starting at how disorders are
diagnosed right through to how drugs are created specific to conditions. There will be
some controversial aspects to this assignment, considering who is allowed access to medi-
cines and who refuses treatments that are available to them. Your report is designed to be a
full consideration of the way disease is dealt with and should be informative to all.
Task 1 This provides evidence for P1
For this task you will identify and describe two physical diagnostic techniques and two
biological diagnostic techniques from a brainstorm created in class. For each technique
find a suitable image and describe what the test is and what information it can give us.
Hand in date March 9th 2009
Task 2 This provides evidence for M1
For each technique discussed in task 1 you will discuss the scientific principles behind it
in a short report. What is the technique testing for and how does it test for it? Add this re-
port to the end of your description.
Hand in date March 9th 2009
Task 3 This provides evidence for D1
For each of the techniques you have described and discussed create a table of disadvan-
tages and advantages of the techniques. How efficient are they? what can go wrong?
hand in date March 16th 2009
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Task 4 This provides evidence for P2
Identify three therapeutic drugs that are used to treat specific disorders. Create a profile for
each drug and the disorder it is used to treat.
Hand in date April 3rd 2009
Task 5 This provides evidence for M2
For each therapeutic drug you have chosen describe how they are used to treat the given
disorders. Add this to the profile you have started in task 4
Hand in date April 22nd 2009
Task 6 This provides evidence for D2
For each of the therapeutic drugs explain the action of the drug. What are the active ingre-
dients and what do they target? Add this to the profile you have started in task 4.
hand in date April 22nd 2009
Task 7 This provides evidence for P3
Identify two therapeutic techniques that are used to treat specific disorders. Create a pro-
file for each technique and the disorder it is used to treat.
Hand in date April 29th 2009
Task 8 This provides evidence for M3
For each of the two therapeutic techniques discuss and explain the functions of each
technique. What is the technique trying to achieve and how? Add this to the profile started
in task 7.
hand in date April 29th 2009
Task 9 This provides evidence for D3
We will have a whole class discussion and brainstorm some of the reasons why some
people refuse to take medicines. From the list created choose one of the reasons that you
are most interested in. Prepare a presentation on your chosen issue to be filmed for a short
film on refusing medicine.
hand in date May 8th 2009
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Task 10 This provides evidence for P4
After playing the pfizer drug development game outline the stages in a flow diagram that
are needed when identifying, synthesizing and marketing a new drug. For each stage write
a brief description of the exact legal requirements, make sure to include the types of trials
needed for new medicines.
hand in date May 15th 2009
Task 11 This provides evidence for M4
Alongside your flow diagram add a box at each stage saying what can go wrong in the
process of creation of a new medicine.
Underneath this write a summary about whether or not you think it is difficult or easy to
make a new drug.
hand in date May 15th 2009
Task 12 This provides evidence for D4
For this task you need to review some of the legal requirements that are surrounded with
developing a new drug. You should pay particular attention to what must occur before a
first clinical trial can take place with emphasis on the case study about the clinical trial
gone wrong.
hand in date June 1st 2009
Task 13 This provides evidence for P5
Here we will focus on what limits access to drugs for particular patients. You will be pre-
sented with a budget and a set of patients on which you can spend your money on. How
will you prioritise who gets medicine and who doesn’t? Why don’t some patients get the
medicines they need? Create a table that has a list of limiting factors, what this means, and
whether or not you think this is fair
Hand in date June 8th
Task 14 This provides evidence for M5
All medicines carry a risk when you take them. For this task you will examine the list of
side effects for a set of common over the counter medicines. You will create a profile for
each discussing the risk of using this medicine.
Hand in date June 12th
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Task 15 This provides evidence for D5
Based on task 13 we are going to examine the specific limitation of availability of cancer
drugs. We’ll look primarily at Avastin as this has been in the media a significant amount in
recent years. For this task you will describe the controversy that surrounds limitation of
cancer drugs to some patients, with a full evaluation of why these are limited and whether
or not you think this is fair.
hand in date June 12th
To achieve a pass grade the To achieve a merit grade the To achieve a distinction
evidence must show that the evidence must show that the grade the evidence must
learner is able to: learner is able to: show that the learner is able
to:
M1
P1 D1
Identify and describe two explain the scientific principles evaluate the advantages and
biological and two physical underlying the two biological disadvantages of using the
procedures used to diagnose and two physical procedures two biological and two
illness physical procedures
P2 M2 D2
identify the therapeutic drugs describe how the therapeutic explain why the actions of
used to treat three given drugs are used to treat these therapeutic drugs are used to
illnesses illnesses treat given illnesses
P3 M3 D3
describe two therapeutic explain the functions of each of evaluate the reasons why some
techniques that are available to these techniques in given individuals, religions and
treat given examples of treatment processes cultires choose not to take
illnesses advantage of all types of
available treatment
P4 M4 D4
describe how a new drug is explain why very few of the review the legal requirements
identified and developed to compounds which start the for the introduction of a new
production and marketing process of development ever drug into the UK market
stages of development succeed through to become
licensed drugs
P5 M5 D5
describe the factors affecting explain the risks involved in all explain the reasons why
availability of drugs and types of drug treatments decisions to give prescriptions
treatments to patients drugs to some and not to others
are always controversial
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Assessed by: Teresa Greer
Internally verified by:
Hand in date: June 12th 2009
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