Teaching methods
The hospital-rotation teaching method focuses on clinical clerking with involvement in ward activities and the practice and acquisition of practical skills. This is supplemented by lectures, demonstrations, bedside tutorials and self-directed learning activities.
Assessment
Formal assessment in each block provides a mark which will contribute 10 per cent from each discipline towards the student's final score at the end of sixth year. This mark is made up of three components of approximately equal weighting: knowledge, clinical skills and continuous assessment. Log books, patient summaries, case studies, multiple-choice question papers, objective structured clinical assessment (OSCA) examinations and clinical case presentations are all utilised in these assessments which take place in the final days of the eight-week rotation.
Aspects of both the continuous and final assessments are utilised in providing feedback to students regarding individual progress and performance in relevant areas of clinical skills development.
Coordinators
Year coordinators
Professor S Holdsworth (Medicine) and Associate Professor T M Adamson (Paediatrics)
Subject coordinators
Infectious diseases: Dr A Yung
Medicine: Associate Professor B McGrath (MMC); Dr M Hall (Alfred)
Obstetrics and gynaecology: Professor D Healy
Paediatrics: Associate Professor T M Adamson
Surgery: Associate Professor P Hunt (MMC); Mr C Christophi (Alfred)