Phase 2

Phase II learning is organised into three key components:

Academic blocks (AB1, AB2 and AB3)

SSC1 (runs alongside AB1)

Core Clinical Education blocks (CCE1, CCE2 and CCE3).

Each academic block is followed by a clinical placement block.

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 

• Blocks focus on Medicine, Surgery and Specialties
• Each of the blocks has same learning outcomes regardless of location.
• 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)

'T-Docs' is short for Tomorrow's Doctors Outcomes for graduates – Practical skills and procedures - GMCand 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.