Monash University Medicine handbook 1995

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MDN5001 * SUR5005

Medicine and surgery

Medicine and surgery teaching in fifth year aims to provide students with core teaching in these disciplines with respect to both knowledge and clinical skills development. Acquisition of practical clinical skills, as well as bedside clinical skills, and a knowledge of the natural history of common medical and surgical illnesses, form the basis of core clinical skills teaching. Teaching in therapeutics will move more to the bedside and will build on the basic and clinical pharmacology principles taught in the preceding years. Learning will focus on specific therapeutic issues relating to patient problems and will highlight the areas of adverse drug reactions and polypharmacy. To achieve these aims students are attached, for an eight-week period, to medical and surgical units in major hospitals where they become part of the medical team of that unit fulfilling, as much as possible, the role of junior doctors. This is supplemented with a structured teaching program including lectures, demonstrations, bedside tutorials and self-learning activities, using a small group format whenever possible. Subspecialty teaching is included in this program as well as instruction in palliative care, anaesthesia, aspects of clinical pathology and radiological sciences and critical care. Time in the accident and emergency departments is part of the formal instruction and includes attendance on a rostered basis out-of-hours. Live-in facilities are now available only to students rostered on-call, except in restricted locations where such facilities are also available during the entire surgical rotation. As part of their involvement in day-to-day patient assessment and management in the respective units, students spend time with paramedical staff, including nurses, physiotherapists, occupational and speech therapists and social workers.

Recommended texts (Medicine)

As listed for fourth year plus the following:

Gilman A G and others (eds) Goodman and Gilman's `Pharmacological basis of therapeutics' 8th edn, Pergamon, 1991

Sapira J D The science of bedside diagnosis Urban Schwarzenberg, 1990

Souhami R L and Moxham J (eds) Textbook of medicine Churchill Livingstone, 1990

Stein J H (ed.) Internal medicine 2nd edn, Little Brown, 1987

Wahlqvist M and Vobecky J (eds) Patient problems in clinical nutrition: A manual Libbey, 1987

Weatherall D J and others (eds) Oxford textbook of medicine 2 vols, 2nd edn, OUP, 1987

Wilson J D and others (eds) Harrison's `Principles of internal medicine' 12th edn, McGraw-Hill, 1991

Wyngaarden J B and others (eds) Cecil `Textbook of medicine' 19th edn, Saunders, 1992

Preliminary reading (Surgery)

As listed for fourth year

Prescribed texts (Surgery)

As listed for fourth year

Recommended texts (Surgery)

General surgery

Friedin J and Marshall V Illustrated guide to surgical practice Churchill Livingstone, 1984

Hughes E S R and others Cabrini surgical lectures Hughes, 1989

Specialty surgery

Brown R B Clinical urology illustrated Adis Press, 1982

Foxen E H N Lecture notes on diseases of the ear, nose and throat 5th edn, Blackwell Scientific, 1981

Kay A Essentials of neurosurgery Churchill Livingstone, 1990

McGregor I A Fundamental techniques of plastic surgery and their surgical application 7th edn, Churchill Livingstone, 1980



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