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Module 2 Essay

Hi Marwa Hope you are well? We are currently reviewing the Module 2 essays. The results are not yet ready for release as they need to be confirmed/ratified by the external examiner. However, we can advise that unfortunately you did not reach the required grade on this submission. Please do not worry, you will have the opportunity to re-submit. Review the tutor feedback for pointers on how to improve your essay and we also have some usef tool on the resources page which may help: Essay Writing Top tips to improve your score Academic Writing Katie Reed on successful academic writing Feedback from the marker: Unfortunately there are a number of shortcoming in this submission that will require you to submit again. For the first task you are asked to justify whether his glycaemic control should be increased and the reason for this. You have written about the WHO diagnostic criteria but these are not relevant as the patient has already been diagnosed with diabetes. You then go onto to state : "ADA recommendation is supported by the evidence that the low HbA1c targets never minimise the risk of the comprehensive macrovascular complications VADT, ACCORD, and ADVANCE". This seems to suggest that you think that lowering the HbA1c target is detrimental to macrovascular risk. This is at best an inaccurate interpretation of the ADA guidelines. Moreover if you follow this thought through it means that you are considering not giving this patient any further diabetes treatment (in addition to metformin). If this is not what you mean you need to be more careful about how you are presenting your ideas. For the remainder of this first task you need to select a HbA1c target and provide the reasons for this using published evidence and guidelines. For task 2 you have managed to give a list of possible medications for this patient and then discussed the mode of action, benefits and risks. Bromocriptine is an unusual choice for this patient - how often do your patients get this prescribed after metformin? Do you have any evidence for what is happening in your local health economy with respect to bromocriptine prescribing? For task 3 you have given the mode of action of all the drugs and then discussed the benefits of all the drug and then all of their risks. I would suggest a better way of doing this is to write about each drug class at a time. This helps to build a picture of which drug is likely to be helpful for this patient. For task 5 you are asked to provide a detailed case for the drug you have finally recommended for this patient. You have written very little and so you have not been able to present a convincing case for the prescribing of DPP4 inhibitors for this patient. Finally your choice of references seems very limited and does not cover the major guidelines or trials that are relevant . Your turn it in report suggests that you have used this article online : https://www.statpearls.com/articlelibrary/viewarticle/26266/?cv=1&utm_campaign=reviews&utm_content=26266&utm_source=pubmed Which is a poor substitute for your own reading and writing the assignment in your own words. Please note, all resubmissions are capped at the passing grade of 50% The due date for the resubmission is Friday 14 May. Let me know if you have any more questions. Regards Terri