Family Attachment Scheme The Family Attachment Scheme How to produce a good report Dr Kieran McGlade

Family Attachment Scheme Deadline Friday 29 th April 2006 Week 10 of the second semester to allow time for revising for other exams.

Family Attachment Scheme A few Do’s Work with your partner(s) Think about the structure of your report Think about who is going to read it Look at past reports in the department of General Practice

Family Attachment Scheme A few Don’ts Leave it to the last minute Fall out with your partner(s) Put lots of brochures and leaflets in the appendices Try to cover every single learning outcome in your report

Family Attachment Scheme Writing your report An account of your visits An account of your impressions Draw on what you have learned in the “Individual in Society” and “Science, Society and Medicine” courses. Draw on what you have learned from others in your tutorial group.

Family Attachment Scheme Tips for preparing for the Report Use a diary Include information from tutorials and other parts of the course as well as your visits Look at exemplars of previous reports but write your own Do not pad the appendices! Don’t have to be nice about the course!

Family Attachment Scheme Dept of General Practice, Queen’s University Belfast Visit Date: Duration: Dialogue Student/Patient/FamilyIssues ArisingResponse Any -biomedical -psychosocial -professional -factual Issues that arise which the student needs to or should find out more about – should be jotted down here For example: - social class -various conditions ( medical) -odd behaviour requiring interpretation What did the student do to resolve/ address Issues Eg Looked up Spoke to etc Miss X volunteered with great feeling how much she missed her mother and how she had been a great source of strength at difficult times in her life Found it a bit embarrassing when Mrs X got distressed talking about her mother. Must bring this up in the tutorial group – what is the best way to deal with these situations – what should you say or do. Why did Miss X never marry? What proportion of the population remain unmarried? What influence has the unmarried state on health? We were surprised at how profoundly this elderly lady still missed her mother Useful discussion in tutorial group about loneliness and also about changing composition of society and extended family. See if we can get answers to how many people do not marry etc. from census data Example of a student learning log

Family Attachment Scheme COMMENTS V GoodGoodAdequatePoor Introduction and background. Description of how the study was carried out. Ability to interpret and critically evaluate the “family’s” life experiences Ability to draw parallels with experience gained from other parts of the course / other students’ experiences. Ability to quote from the relevant literature and relate this to own learning experiences in the family. Writing style Salient personal commentary and conclusions Appendices and documentation provided

Family Attachment Scheme Introduction and Background Putting the family in context –The area –How far did this family’s environment and experience differ from your own? Background to the Family Attachment Scheme Brief summary of your work

Family Attachment Scheme How study was carried out Brief description of the visits (how many, how often etc) How any difficulties were addressed in arranging visits How you went about recording information Confidentiality issues

Family Attachment Scheme Interpret and Critically evaluate What did YOU make of the things you learned from the patient(s)? Did anything surprise you? Why? What meaning did the patients confer on their illness experience?

Family Attachment Scheme Parallels / Connections Draw parallels and connections between what you have learned through direct experience in the FAS and –What you have discussed/learned in other parts of the course Science Society & Medicine The Individual and Society Your Family Attachment Tutorials and other Students’ insights

Family Attachment Scheme Other Aspects Writing style Personal Commentary –Do not repeat what you have already said in the main report –Don’t say how wonderful course was Appendices –Directly referred to –Relevance explained well in the text

Family Attachment Scheme Literature Don’t quote for the sake of it Use the library and the web to find answers to questions in your log. You can quote a web reference. You can use references from other parts of the course BUT Make the relevance to your report CLEAR

Family Attachment Scheme Sources of Information ate/FAS.htmlhttp:// ate/FAS.html mily/ mily/ Queens Online NB Other Courses! –Second Year – The Individual in Society –First Year – Science Society and Medicine

Family Attachment Scheme The Report For regulations see para 12.3 of the study guide Combined effort (two or three students) Main part (4,000 words) Personal reflection (750 words) in appendix

Family Attachment Scheme The Report Your GP tutor may wish to have a copy of your final report Your tutor may be happy to review a draft of your report but will not be assessing it

Family Attachment Scheme Deadline Friday 29 th April 2006 Week 10 of the second semester to allow time for revising for other exams.