Year 4 Primacy Care Clinical Teaching

Session: Men’s Health/Urology – Day 1

Plan for the day:

09:30: Urology initial task
10:15: Watch VPC: 133A Watch patient with scrotal pain 10.21
10:45: Coffee Break
11:00: Urology Quiz
11:45: Men’s Health (PPT)
12:30: Lunch
13:30: Undifferentiated cases

ILOs covered today:

 Know the most common reasons why men have poorer health and shorter life
expectancy in the UK and worldwide- for example higher rates of suicide, smoking and
risk taking behaviour. 
 Be aware that the most common causes of death for young men (dependent upon
age) are trauma and suicide and for men over 50 is heart disease. 
 Know strategies that have been attempted to address common causes of death in
young men and men over 50, including public health initiatives such as ‘well man clinics’,
and be aware of their limitations. 
 Causes of scrotal swellings, groin lumps and penile abnormalities 
 Describe the presenting features, examination findings and primary care management of:
 Epididimo-orchitis

 Varicocoele
 Hydrocoele
 Hypospadias
 Lower abdominal hernias
  Testicular torsion
 Testicular cancer

Resources
Students

Tutors

For next week:

Please read through:

Advising men without symptoms of prostate disease who ask about the PSA test - GOV.UK
(www.gov.uk)

PCRMP_patient_info_sheet_draft_March_2022_new.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Erectile dysfunction | Health topics A to Z | CKS | NICE