Teaching methods
During sixth year, students participate in patient-centred small teaching groups, large multidisciplinary lecture-seminars, student presentations and much hands-on tuition during each rotation period.
Assessment
Assessment in the sixth year includes an extension of the fifth-year assessment procedure into both community medicine and psychological medicine rotations. Each of these therefore, contributes a total of 10 per cent of the students' final examination mark and as in fifth year, is made up of three components of approximately equal weighting: knowledge, clinical skills and continuous assessment. Clinical presentations, multiple-choice question papers and structured clinical examinations are amongst the methods used to derive these block assessment marks.
At the completion of the sixth year of the course, a final clinical examination will be held which will be multidisciplinary and include two long case assessments and presentations, and a series of structured clinical examination stations. The total exam will integrate medicine and surgery including their specialties, pathology and immunology, microbiology, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, community medicine, geriatric medicine, rehabilitation medicine, palliative care, forensic medicine, psychological medicine, social and preventive medicine and therapeutics. Overall, this will contribute 40 per cent of the students' final mark, the other 60 per cent coming from the six assessments each worth 10 per cent as outlined in the fifth-year assessment section above.
Assessment at a less formal level will occur in each of the components of the sixth-year program. A `satisfied faculty requirement' (SFR) grade is required for each component to enable the student to pass the year.
Coordinators
Year coordinators
Professor S Holdsworth (Medicine) and Professor N Christophidis (Geriatrics)
Subject coordinators
Community medicine: Dr M Burke
Forensic medicine: Professor S Cordner
Geriatrics: Dr B Workman
Medicine: Professor S Holdsworth (MMC); Professor N Thomson/Professor H H Salem (Alfred/Box Hill)
Palliative care: Dr R Redpath (MMC); Associate Professor M Schwarz (Alfred)
Psychological medicine: Dr D Clarke (MMC); Dr G Conron (Alfred)
Rehabilitation medicine: Dr A Nunn
Social and preventive medicine: Dr D Goddard
Surgery: Associate Professor D Scott (MMC); Mr M Grigg/Mr J Dawson (Alfred/Box Hill)
Therapeutics: Professor A McLean