Fifth year


General information


Fifth year consists of a series of hospital rotations with a strong emphasis on hands-on experience. Rotations are through medicine, surgery, paediatrics and obstetrics and gynaecology with specific teaching in palliative care and infectious diseases together with an elective term. The major hospitals involved in these rotations include Monash Medical Centre (Clayton and Moorabbin campuses), the Alfred group of hospitals (Alfred Hospital and Caulfield General Medical Centre), and Box Hill, Mornington Peninsula, Dandenong and various country hospitals. The tuition is in many cases strengthened by using a log-book approach to check that all students have been trained in the appropriate procedures and skills.

Fifth-year text books

Prescribed texts

Hull D and Johnston D Essential paediatrics 3rd edn, Churchill Livingstone, 1993 or
Robinson M J Practical paediatrics 3rd edn, Churchill Livingstone, 1994 and
MacMahon R A An aid to paediatric surgery 2nd edn, Churchill Livingston, 1991

Recommended texts

Behrman R E and Vaughan V C Nelson's 'Textbook of paediatrics' 15th edn, Saunders, 1996
Beischer N A and Mackay E V Obstetrics and the newborn Saunders, 1986
Bennett J C (ed.) Cecil 'Textbook of medicine' 20th edn, Saunders, 1996
Brown R B Clinical urology illustrated Adis Press, 1982
Chamberlain J V P Obstetrics by ten teachers 16th edn, 1995
Chamberlain J V P Gynaecology by ten teachers 16th edn, 1995
Clayton S G (ed) Obstetrics by ten teachers 12th edn, Arnold, 1972
Clayton S G (ed.) Gynaecology by ten teachers 13th edn, Arnold, 1980
Doyle D Oxford textbook of palliative medicine 2nd edn, OUP, 1998
Foxen E H N Lecture notes on diseases of the ear, nose and throat 5th edn, Blackwell Scientific, 1981
Friedin J and Marshall V Illustrated guide to surgical practice Churchill Livingstone, 1984
Garrey M M and others Obstetrics illustrated 4th edn, Churchill Livingstone, 1989
Gilman A G and others (eds) Goodman and Gilman's 'Pharmacological basis of therapeutics' 9th edn, McGraw-Hill, 1996
Hughes E S R and others Cabrini surgical lectures Hughes, 1989
Hutson J, Beasley S, and Woodward A (eds) Jones' 'Clinical paediatric surgery' 4th edn, Ure-Smith, 1992
Illingworth R S The normal child 10th edn, Churchill Livingston, 1991
Kay A Essentials of neurosurgery 2nd edn, Churchill Livingstone, 1997
Llewellyn-Jones D Fundamentals of obstetrics and gynaecology vol. 1, Obstetrics 6th edn, Faber, 1994
Macdonald R R (ed.) Scientific basis of obstetrics and gynaecology 3rd edn, Churchill Livingstone, 1985
Mackay E and others Illustrated textbook of gynaecology 2nd edn, Saunders, 1992
McGregor I A Fundamental techniques of plastic surgery and their surgical application 8th edn, Churchill Livingstone, 1989
Novak E R and Woodruff J D Novak's 'Gynaecologic and obstetric pathology' 8th edn, Saunders, 1979
O'Driscoll K and Meagher D Active management of labour 3rd edn, 1993
Philipp E E and others Scientific foundations of obstetrics and gynaecology 4th edn, Heinemann, 1991
Pritchard J A and McDonald P D Williams' 'Obstetrics' 17th edn, ACC, 1985
Sapira J D The science of bedside diagnosis Urban Schwarzenberg, 1990
Souhami R L and Moxham J (eds) Textbook of medicine 3rd edn, Churchill Livingstone, 1997
Stein J H (ed.) Internal medicine 4th edn, Little Brown, 1994
Stone R (ed) Harrison's 'Principles of internal medicine' 14th edn, McGraw-Hill, 1998
Tindall V R Illustrated textbook of gynaecology Gower, 1991
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 3 vols, 3rd edn, OUP, 1996
Wood C and Westmore A Test tube conception Hill of Content, 1984

Fifth-year subjects