2TiMe workshop: Organising SSCs and attachments

1. Organising SSCs and attachments
Dr Kaz Iwata (Clinical Teaching Fellow)

2. SSCs
• Student selected components
• Student selected modules (SSMs)
• Optional module
• Student selected options

3. Objectives
• Know why SSCs are required
• Be aware of the practicalities and logistics of proposing
SSCs or attachments to medical schools
• Draft a proposal for a clinical attachment or SSC

4. • Why do we have SSCs?

5. • Types of SSC
– Clinical: explore potential career options
– Academic skills: teaching, literature review
– Research: library-based research project
– Humanities to broaden horizon in medicine (eg. language
courses, history of medicine)

6. • What can you offer in your specialty/clinical
setting/role?

7. Practicalities
• Being familiar with the medical school curriculum
• Must know what the medical school requires at each
stage of learning
• Is your working environment able to meet the learning
needs of those students?
• Draft a proposal and suggest to undergraduate
teaching leads – title differs between medical school

8. • What are the difficulties of organizing an SSC as a
trainee?

9. Difficulties as a trainee
• Rotation to different hospitals – how do you maintain
continuity with medical school?
• “Credibility”
– Potential solution is collaborate/appoint an academic or
consultant to be the nominal lead
• Will the working environment (clinical environment,
your commitments) allow you to do this?

10. Task
• Drafting a proposal
– Aims
– Learning objectives
– Activities
– Methods of assessment
– Additional information

11. Objectives
• Know why SSCs are required
• Be aware of the practicalities and logistics of proposing
SSCs or attachments to medical schools
• Draft a proposal for a clinical attachment or SSC

12. • Thanks for attending