MED6007

Medicine (city/rural)

(MED)

Professor N Thomson, Associate Professor B McGrath and Dr H Newnham

5-week /student intern0 rotation and 9-week teaching blocks combined with surgery in a rural hospital, a private city hospital and the specialty wards and clinics of a major city teaching hospital.

Synopsis: The major city teaching hospital rotation consists of a continuous attachment to a general medical unit with integration of activities with junior staff members of the unit and involvement in all activities involving the full medical unit; clerking of patients entering the unit and documenting illness details, a problem list and plan of investigation and management in the patient folder. In the private and rural hospital setting and the specialty clinic and unit attachment in the major city teaching hospital, involvement in outpatient clinics and ward-based activities with supervised clinical work.

Assessment: Continuous assessment (satisfactory faculty requirement)