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Susan Shelmerdine

Dear University of Sheffield,

I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the intercalated BSc degrees undertaken by medical students at your medical school.

1) In your undergraduate medical degree course, is it compulsory or optional for students to undertake an intercalated BSc degree during their medical studies?

2) Do you offer intercalated BSc modules on any/all of the following topics (or related topics)? If so, please could you list which ones you provide options to study:

a. Anatomy/ anatomical sciences/ dissection
b. Radiology/ medical imaging
c. Medical physics

3) In the last 5 academic years of students (Sept 2016 to 2021) could you tell me how many students in total have completed an intercalated BSc (per year), and of these how many chose to undertake the above modules (relating to anatomy, radiology, medical physics).

Please provide numbers of students per year, per subject module and whether you have information on the average mark and range of ranks achieved (e.g. % score or grade)

4) Is there a requirement for students to also conduct original research and produce a dissertation/thesis as part of any of these study modules/topics; or are they just examined by a written test?

5) If there is a need to produce a dissertation/thesis as part of the module selected, would it be possible to provide the titles of the dissertations submitted over the last 5 years for these modules? Please provide the dissertation titles per year and per subject module.

Thank you very much for your help in advance.

Yours faithfully,

Susan Shelmerdine

Freedom Of Information, University of Sheffield

Dear Susan
Thank you for your request for information from the University of
Sheffield regarding intercalated BSc degrees undertaken by medical
students at the Medical School.
The University holds the information you have requested. Please see the
information colleagues have provided below. 

1)      In your undergraduate medical degree course, is it compulsory or
optional for students to undertake an intercalated BSc degree during their
medical studies?

 

Optional

 

2)      Do you offer intercalated BSc modules on any/all of the following
topics (or related topics)? If so, please could you list which ones you
provide options to study:

 

We don’t offer core modules in these areas for our 2 BSc courses. However,
clinical and academic staff offer research projects each year and we may
have projects offered in the areas as marked below. The students select
the projects as a result some offered projects are not taken up in an
academic session.

 

a.      Anatomy/ anatomical sciences/ dissection  - not at UG BSc level.

b.      Radiology/ medical imaging - Yes we may get around 5 projects
offered in this area per year, they might not all be taken up.

c.      Medical physics - again, we may get up to 2 projects offered in
this area but they may not be selected by students.

 

3)      In the last 5 academic years of students (Sept 2016 to 2021) could
you tell me how many students in total have completed an intercalated BSc
(per year), and of these how many chose to undertake the above modules
(relating to anatomy, radiology, medical physics).

 

NB: the figures provided are only for Sheffield intercalated bachelors.
Students can go externally as well but we don’t keep records for modules
on those courses. Changed the Bachelors from a BMedSci award to BSc in
2019/20.

 

No. taking radiology/anatomy/medical physics/ total no. of students
registered to the course.

┌─────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┬───────────┐
│Year │Type of course │Totals │
├─────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤
│2016/17 │Intercalation BMedSci Sheffield │ 11/69│
├─────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤
│2017/18 │Intercalation BMedSci Sheffield │ 0/33│
├─────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤
│2018/19 │Intercalation BMedSci Sheffield │ <5/34│
├─────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤
│2019/20 │Intercalation BSc Sheffield │ <5/29│
├─────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┼───────────┤
│2020/21 │Intercalation BSc Sheffield │ <5/30│
└─────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘

Where the number of students totals less than five, the total is presented
as '<5' in line with section 40(2) of the Act protecting the disclosure of
personal data. Similarly, for q5 the titles for 2018/19-2020/21 have been
presented together.  

Please provide numbers of students per year, per subject module and
whether you have information on the average mark and range of ranks
achieved (e.g. % score or grade)

All students do a core set of modules on Ethics, Statistics and Research
Skills. They then do a research dissertation and a clinical
portfolio/surgical skills module if they are doing our BSc in Medical
Sciences (Surgery). These marks are aggregated for the final degree result
and classification.

Our mean overall mark is usually: 70-72%

On average 70% approximately of students receive a first class honours.

4)      Is there a requirement for students to also conduct original
research and produce a dissertation/thesis as part of any of these study
modules/topics; or are they just examined by a written test?

 

Yes - they do a dissertation on their research project area.

 

5)      If there is a need to produce a dissertation/thesis as part of the
module selected, would it be possible to provide the titles of the
dissertations submitted over the last 5 years for these modules? Please
provide the dissertation titles per year and per subject module.

 

2016/17

A Clinical & Radiological Review of Children Presenting with Possible
Sepsis of the Hip: identification of the spectrum of differential
diagnoses, and the construction of an algorithm to assist diagnosis and
treatment.

Magnetic resonance imaging And Phenotyping of PAINful diabetic neuropathy
(MAP-PAIN)

Image analysis of lung CT scans and cardiac and pulmonary vascular MRIs.
Statistical analysis to determine how important cardiac and pulmonary
vascular disease is in patients with COPD.

Use magnetic resonance imaging to study a large cohort of patients with
heart failure and pulmonary vascular disease. Measure changes in the right
and left ventricles and determine how they interact and assess the impact
on patient outcome.

Magnetic resonance imaging And Phenotyping of PAINful diabetic neuropathy
(MAP-PAIN)

Thermal Imaging Compared to Skeletal Survey for Diagnosis of Fractures in
Suspected Inflicted Injury in Children Below 2 Years of Age: A Prospective
Diagnostic Accuracy Study

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Heart & Brain in Diabetes

What is the value of follow-up radiographs in suspected child physical
abuse?

Bladder Sphericity: A pilot study for the ultrasonographic assessment of
bladder shape in women with overactive bladder (BLAST Study)

3-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging of perianal fistulas

Advanced magnetic resonance spectroscopy of cardiac cells and tissues

2018/19-2020/21

Hi-Res Infrared thermography as a diagnostic and prognostic tool in
necrotising enterocolitis - a pilot feasibility study

Determining MRI ventilation scan properties of value in the assessment of
asthma.

Wrist fracture screening using thermography

Assessment of bladder shape changes during urodynamics

The use of accelerometry to describe joint movement in active knee
arthritis of children and young people with juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Comparison of three systems for predicting myocardial ischaemia from
coronary angiograms

Optimisation and validation of a new low-profile thermal compliance sensor
for monitoring spinal orthosis wear time in scoliosis

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On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 13:43, Susan Shelmerdine <[3][FOI #862897 email]>
wrote:

Dear University of Sheffield,

I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of
Information Act, details in respect to the intercalated BSc degrees
undertaken by medical students at your medical school.

1)      In your undergraduate medical degree course, is it compulsory or
optional for students to undertake an intercalated BSc degree during
their medical studies?

2)      Do you offer intercalated BSc modules on any/all of the
following topics (or related topics)? If so, please could you list which
ones you provide options to study:

a.      Anatomy/ anatomical sciences/ dissection
b.      Radiology/ medical imaging
c.      Medical physics

3)      In the last 5 academic years of students (Sept 2016 to 2021)
could you tell me how many students in total have completed an
intercalated BSc (per year), and of these how many chose to undertake
the above modules (relating to anatomy, radiology, medical physics).

Please provide numbers of students per year, per subject module and
whether you have information on the average mark and range of ranks
achieved (e.g. % score or grade)

4)      Is there a requirement for students to also conduct original
research and produce a dissertation/thesis as part of any of these study
modules/topics; or are they just examined by a written test?

5)      If there is a need to produce a dissertation/thesis as part of
the module selected, would it be possible to provide the titles of the
dissertations submitted over the last 5 years for these modules? Please
provide the dissertation titles per year and per subject module.

Thank you very much for your help in advance.

Yours faithfully,

Susan Shelmerdine

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