Learning in Phase II is based in hospital and community settings.  

Phase II learning is organised into three key components: Academic blocks (AB1, AB2 and AB3), SSC1 (runs alongside AB1) and Core Clinical Education blocks (CCE1, CCE2 and CCE3). In the new Phase II curriculum, each academic block is followed by a clinical placement block.

This is the first block the students undertake during Phase II. It runs for 7 weeks starting at the beginning of August. Following this, students have a consolidation week.

Each week of the block has a different theme, content from phase I is built on and more advanced and complex subjects are covered: 

Week 2: Chronic Health Conditions

Week 3: Maternal Health

Week 4: Child Health and Adolescence

Week 5: Frailty and Confusion

Week 6: Cancer and Palliative Care

Week 7: Healthcare in the Community

Academic Block 2

This runs for two weeks in January and covers the following themes.

Week 1: Cardiovascular Conditions

Week 2: Chronic Health Conditions

Academic Block 3

This runs for two weeks in April and covers the following themes.

Week 1: Infectious diseases

Week 2: Autoimmune conditions

Learning Objectives

Become competent and confident at:  

• History taking  
• Examination  
• Constructing basic differential diagnosis  
• Planning investigations  
• Basic Management  
• Communicating with patients and in teams  
• Common and important conditions  
• Understanding the culture of the NHS  

We expect them to gain experience in common and important conditions.

CCE is a 30 week clinical placement in Phase II 

• There are 3 x ten week blocks running from September to June. The blocks are focussed on Medicine, Surgery and Specialties.
• Students are based in the Trusts - UHCW, GEH, SWFT and also spend one day per week (either Tuesday or Wednesday) in a GP surgery. Students also have community placements during the specialties block.
• Each of the three blocks has same learning outcomes regardless of location.
• In the NHS Hospital Trusts your students rotate between UHCW and one DGH (SWFT or GEH). Your students are attached in small groups to faculty teams. If you teach Phase II students you need to know the other named consultants in your faculty team. This is important so that you can share information with each other about the students, and so you can cover for each other if you are unable to teach your students one week (for example, if you are on call or on annual leave) 
• Students also attend one Phase II Day during each CCE block.
• Case Based Learning sessions – CBL continues throughout the course. If you have a Phase II student, please ask them how their CBL case is going that week. If you can find a patient to link with the topic of the week that will help the students apply their new knowledge.
• Students must all attend T-DOCS / Skills lab sessions:

'T-Docs' is short for Tomorrow's Doctors and refers to the list of clinical skills that the GMC requires newly qualified doctors to be able to do.  

Students are taught these by a team of clinical skills facilitators in the clinical skills labs. Students are required to attend their slots for T-Docs teaching. Once they have been taught in the lab, they are allowed to perform these skills supervised in clinical placement.