King's College London

Students on this course take modules totaling 120 credits. Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work

• Introduction to Primary Care (15 credits): This module contextualises current primary care and allows students to analyse the current state of healthcare delivery and explore the inception and evolution of primary care in the United Kingdom.
• Research Methods (15 credits): This interactive module will provide a strong grounding in research methods and the types of research that are used in Primary Care. It will equip you with the skills to interpret and use research in your clinical practice, explain the relevance of research to patients and design your own research project. It will be closely aligned with clinical practice and we will be appraising research papers that will add depth to your clinical understanding and are relevant to other modules of the programme and future medical careers.
• Leadership, Management & Quality (15 credits): This module helps you develop essential skills in leadership and quality assurance and improvement methodologies. It will enable you to appreciate and understand the challenges and complexities of Primary Care in modern UK healthcare delivery. You will also be guided towards the importance of teamwork and leadership in real world healthcare practice, developing leadership skills that initiate change in a variety of healthcare settings. This module introduces you to at least 6 key quality improvement tools that you can use in your evolving primary care practice.
• Clinical General Practice (30 credits): In this module you will experience real clinical practice in Primary Care which will help contextualise the learning and research undertaken in the rest of this iBSc. You will be encouraged to consider everyday problems in Primary Care and ways in which quality improvement or research can help improve patient care. This placement will also allow you to maintain and develop your clinical knowledge and skills.
• Research Project in Primary Care (30 credits): In this module you will explore an area of Primary Care research or development in depth and contribute to generating new knowledge. You will choose whether to work on a project that is already partly designed, or part of a larger project, or you can be supported to develop your own research question. Many students have published their work and presented at conferences. Examples of recent projects are:
  • Is there an association between GP access and the number of A&E attendances from each practice?
  • Burnout across clinical specialities during COVID-19 2020-2023: A systematic review

In addition to the required modules, you must study one module from the options below, or any other 15 credit Level 6 module within the School of Bioscience Education, if this is agreed by all parties.

• Teaching in Primary Care (15 credits): This module introduces you to educational practices encountered in Primary Care settings, including basic educational theories related to teaching and learning. You will explore your own autobiography as a learner and the impact these experiences have on your role as a teacher. As part of the module, you will facilitate teaching and learning activities, and be able to apply teaching skills, receive feedback from peers and faculty, and identify evidence-based action plans for developing your skills in future teaching practice in Primary Care.
• Health Inequality (15 credits): This module will focus on and explore health inequalities on local and national levels. Learning will be linked to experience students will have gained on their clinical placement and there will be opportunity for further practical experience: you will meet healthcare practitioners working in health improvement settings and see first-hand how people end up on the margins of our society and the barriers that they face in accessing care. We will study vulnerable groups, explore reasons for health inequalities, look at the challenges in addressing this, evaluate current initiatives and theorise how to further reduce inequality. We will analyse the role that primary care has to play in addressing health inequalities on both a local and a national level.