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This is the second of four patient pathways in the Clinical and Professional Practice (CPP) curriculum which runs 'vertically' across the 'horizontal' modules in each year of the programme.

CPP is organised into three module groupings:

• Integrated Clinical and Professional Practice;
• Overall Themes;
• and Student-Centred Learning, Person-Centred Learning.

These four formal patient pathways in the Student-Centred Learning, Person-Centred Learning grouping are designed to create opportunities for students to understand the experience of illness from the patient perspective, but you will also be encouraged to follow individual patients through their treatment in areas such as breast cancer, liaison psychiatry, COPD etc.

The patient pathways teaching and learning includes some or all of: lectures, presentations, tutorials, placements, visits to services and patients, and meetings between the student and patients without direct supervision.

This second patient pathway consists of six small group work sessions, four of which involve patients with either cardiovascular or diabetic disease. The sessions are facilitated by doctors who are specialists in cardiometabolic disease. Week by week, the tutors introduce students to skills of history-taking and investigative techniques used in diagnosis and they explore the impact of illness on their patients. Students are encouraged to interact and practice their communication skills within this supported environment.