This program is an extension of that which is taught in fourth and fifth years. Its focus is on community aspects of palliative care, including management of common symptoms at home and learning communication skills in relation to the terminally ill in the consultation setting.
Recommended texts
Souhami R L and Moxham J (eds) Textbook of medicine Churchill Livingstone, 1990
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Therapeutics
A series of seminars covering a range of medical therapeutic topics forms an important part of the multidisciplinary seminars which all students attend throughout the final year. Therapeutics teaching will also be incorporated into individual problem-based seminars and will continue to be taught as part of the bedside clinical tutorial program.
Assessment
Assessment is incorporated into the 40% component of sixth-year examinations comprising long cases and objective structured clinical assessments.
reg. Hospitals and other institutions where teaching takes place
The hospitals in which students gain the majority of their clinical experience are:
* The Alfred Group of Hospitals (incorporating Caulfield and Caulfield General Medical Centre)
* Box Hill Hospital
* Dandenong and District Hospital
* Fairfield Hospital
* Mornington Peninsula Hospital
* Larundel Hospital
* Monash Medical Centre (incorporating campuses at Clayton and Moorabbin)
* Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital.
A significant proportion of our students also gain further clinical experience within the following hospitals and institutions:
* Addcare Alcohol and Drug Counselling
* Angliss Hospital
* Baker Medical Research Institute
* Bendigo Base Hospital
* Bethesda Hospital
* Bethlehem Hospital
* Camberwell Day Hospital
* Caulfield Cardiac Rehabilitation Centre
* Cedar Court Rehabilitation Hospital
* Claremont Day Hospital
* Clarendon Clinic
* Dandenong Psychiatric Centre
* Delmont Private Hospital
* East Bentleigh Community Health Centre
* Eastern Suburbs Geriatric Centre
* Epworth Hospital
* Evancourt Hospital
* Footscray Psychiatric Hospital
* Hobson Park Psychiatric Hospital
* Hampton Rehabilitation Hospital
* Heatherton Hospital
* Kingston Centre Geriatric Hospital
* Latrobe Regional Hospital (incorporating Central Gippsland Hospital - Traralgon Campus; and Latrobe Valley Hospital - Moe Campus)
* Learning and Living Centre (Yooralla Society of Victoria)
* Malvern Clinic
* Maroondah Hospital
* Maroondah Psychiatric Unit
* Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria
* Montclair Private Hospital
* Mordialloc-Cheltenham Community Hospital
* Moreland Hall Alcoholism and Drug Treatment Centre
* Odyssey House Community Involvement Centre
* Multiple Sclerosis Society of Victoria
* Pleasant View Centre
* Prince Henry's Institute for Medical Research
* Sandringham and District Memorial Hospital
* St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Hospital
* Task Force Counselling Program
* Transport Accident Rehabilitation Centre
* Trentwood Hospital
* West Gippsland Hospital
* Western Region Health Centre Ltd
* Williamstown Hospital