The University of Liverpool

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Welcome

• The University of Liverpool
• Professor R D Griffiths
• Professor of Medicine (Critical Care)
• School of Clinical Science
• and
• Acting Head of School of Medical Education

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University of Liverpool

• 1779 Liverpool Medical Library
• 1833 Liverpool Medical Society
• 1844 Royal Infirmary Medical School
• 1881 University College Liverpool
• One of the first civic universities
• 1882 incorporates the Medical School to form the
  Faculty of Medicine
• 1890-1978 Waterhouses red brick buildings you
  will see use
• 1899 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
• Ronald Ross, Nobel Laureate (malaria)
• 1903 University of Liverpool (chartered)
• To become one of the 19 Research led Russell
  Group Universities
• 8 Nobel laureates
• 20,000 students
• 4,500 staff in six Faculties 54
  departments/schools

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Faculty of Medicine in Liverpool

• School of Medical Education
• Your point of contact administration
• Other Academic Schools (with many Divisions)
• School of Clinical Sciences
• Neurosciences, Metabolic Cellular Medicine,
  Gastroenterology, Clinical Chemistry, Clinical
  Engineering, Clinical Science, Infection
  immunity
• School of Cancer Studies
• Pathology, Haematology, Surgery Oncology
• School of Population, Community Behavioural
  Sciences
• Public Health, Primary Care, Psychiatry, Clinical
  Psychology
• School of Reproductive Developmental Medicine
• Child Health, Perinatal Reproductive Medicine
• School of Biomedical Sciences
• Pharmacology, Physiology, Human Anatomy Cell
  biology
• School of Infection Host Defence
• Immunology, Medical Microbiology
• School of Tropical Medicine
• School of Health Sciences
• Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy,
  Orthoptics, Radiology
• School of Dental Sciences

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Your teachers

• University
• From across the faculty schools
• Clinical non clinical scientists teachers
• NHS
• Clinicians
• (Doctors, Nurses Allied Health Professions)
• Primary care
• Hospital Trusts

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Your first year is the beginning
Human Anatomy Resource Centre
Problem Based Learning
VITAL
Plenaries
Clinical Skills
Communication Skills
Student Medical Society
Community studies
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What is Medicine?

• Medicine is a vocation in which a doctors
  knowledge, clinical skills, and judgement are put
  in the service of protecting and restoring human
  well-being
• Doctors in Society, Royal College Physicians
  (2005)

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• This purpose is realised through a partnership
  between patient and doctor, one based on mutual
  respect, individual responsibility, and
  appropriate accountability
• What is key to the relationship?

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TRUST the reward of a professional

• Medical Professionalism signifies a set of
  values, behaviours, and relationships that
  underpins the trust the public has in doctors
• We have an obligation to respect and repay that
  trust by being prepared to demonstrate that we
  are worthy of it

Definition from Doctors in Society, Royal College
Physicians (2005)
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Trust a life long commitment

• In their day-to-day practice, doctors are
  committed to
• integrity
• compassion
• altruism
• continuous improvement
• excellence
• working in partnership with members of the
  wider healthcare team.
• These values, which underpin the science and
  practice of medicine, form the basis for a moral
  contract between the medical profession and
  society.

Doctors in Society, Royal College Physicians
(2005)
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HIPPOCRATIC OATH
Hippocrates 460-377 BC

• In 1947 the World Medical Association produced a
  modern restatement of the Hippocratic Oath, known
  as the Declaration of Geneva, and to base upon it
  an International Code of Medical Ethics.
• In our Faculty the Declaration of Geneva has been
  slightly modified so that it is appropriate for
  all health care professions.
• During the Facultys graduation ceremony, the new
  graduates in all these professions each affirm
  the amended version (World Medical Association
  1994 and Liverpool 1995) of the Declaration.
• At the start of your career I ask you to stand
  and read with me the Liverpool declaration as
  testament to your intentions.

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• At the time of being admitted as a Member of my
  Profession,
• I solemnly pledge myself to consecrate my life to
  the service of humanity
• I will give to my teachers the respect and
  gratitude which is their due
• I will practise my profession with conscience and
  dignity
• The health of those in my care will be my first
  consideration
• I will respect the secrets that are confided in
  me, even after a patient has died
• I will maintain by all the means in my power the
  honour and the noble traditions of my profession

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• My colleagues will be my sisters and brothers
• I will not permit considerations of age, disease
  or disability, creed, ethnic origin, gender,
  nationality, political affiliation, race, sexual
  orientation or social standing to intervene
  between my duty and my patient
• I will maintain the utmost respect for human life
  from its beginnings, even under threat,
• and I will not use my specialist knowledge
  contrary to the laws of humanity
• I make these promises solemnly, freely and upon
  my honour.

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