| CODE | MDS2025 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Medical Leadership - Intrapersonal Communication Skills 1 | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Faculty of Medicine and Surgery | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This seminar is meant to enable the students to understand their personal needs, values, strengths, feelings and motivations. It is aimed to equip the students with strategies that will help them to cope with difficult situations in their personal and professional lives through development of self-awareness, coping mechanisms and resilience. Doctors showing effective leadership and resilience need to draw upon their values, strengths and abilities to deliver high standards of care. This means developing the ability to engage within complex systems and work pressure, managing and coping with change as well as investing in professional and personal development. Healthy doctors are not only interested in their advancement but also in the improvement of the organisation within which they work. It is assumed that students would use their acquired awareness and skills outside the training context. The method of learning is experiential, and for this reason, the course will be residential. It consists of a seminar that will explore the issues of decision making, dealing with negative emotions and stress and burnout. Topics to be covered: - Value clarification and Decision Making; - Dealing with Negative Emotions; - Stress and Burnout. Study-unit Aims: This unit is aimed to equip the students with particular strategies and techniques that will help them to cope with difficult situations in their personal and professional lives, providing skills on stress management, leadership, time management and project management. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Discuss values; - Discuss decision processes; - Discuss negative emotions; - Recognise stress and burnout. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Identify values; - Analyse situations and be more clear about how to reach decisions; - Deal with negative emotions; - Recognise the signs of burnout; - Manage stress. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Material provided during study-unit. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Study-unit: MDS1011 Please note that a pass in each assessment component is obligatory for an overall pass mark to be awarded. Students will be allowed to resit the Assignment component in the September Exam Session if they pass the Competencies component. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Seminar | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Nadya Abdilla Joshua Aquilina Oscar Aquilina Stephanie Bartolo Winston Bartolo Charlene Borg Walter Busuttil Stephanie Caruana David Cassar Doreen Cassar Mary Rose Gauci Louise Ghirlando David Grillo (Co-ord.) Graziella Mercieca Anne Marie Micallef Emma Micallef Ryan Portelli Pullicino Veronica Said Ventura Stephanie Savona Audrey Sciberras |
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