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MED3051

Medicine and surgery 1 ( 24 points, SCA Band 3, 0.500 EFTSL)

Undergraduate
(MED)

Leader: Professor Julian Smith + Associate Professor William Sievert

Offered:
Clayton 1-32 2005 (Day)

Synopsis: Medicine 3051 is an integrated medicine/surgery curriculum based on the four themes of the medical curriculum: Personal and professional development; population, society, health and illness; foundations of medicine; and clinical skills. Evidence-based educational approaches support students in acquiring appropriate knowledge, attitudes and skills in medicine, surgery, clinical skills, evidence-based clinical practice, occupational and environmental medicine, patho-physiology, pharmacology, ethics and law. Previous learning will be extended.

Objectives: loss.

Assessment: Assessments are continuous and will be both formative and summative. Formative assessments may include written instruments such as EMQs and short answer questions linked with PBLs together with observation of clinical skills through Observed Clinical Encounters (OCEs) and completion of a clinical skills logbook. Students must demonstrate satisfactory participation and performance in clinical skills activities during clinical attachments. Portfolio components must be completed as required. Pass grade only (PGO).

Contact Hours: Weekly there will be approximately 13 hours of structured teaching and learning, 10 hours of unstructured learning in clinical settings and 10 hours of unstructured individual learning (private study).

Prerequisites: MED2031, MED2042