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This is the first 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: plenaries, tutorials, placements, visits to services and patients, and meetings between the student and patients without direct supervision.

This first patient pathway will enable you to:

• gain exposure to patients, carers, health and social care professionals from all walks of life and to a range of health and social care services in the community; they meet patients/clients, professionals and community volunteers in small group work and community visits to discuss their experiences of health/illness and/or of delivering support
• learn to explore people’s personal histories and take account of their social context when considering health and social support needs
• learn to reflect on interactions with others
• learn to consider how their own attitudes, values, beliefs, perceptions and personal biases may affect their interactions with others
• consider how diversity, vulnerability, stigma, inequalities and discrimination affect people’s lives and their access to services