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(MED)
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Leader: Professor Julian Smith + Associate Professor William Sievert
Offered:
Clayton 2-32 2005 (Day)
Synopsis: Medicine 3062 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. By the end of the semester students must be capable of undertaking history and clinical examinations of patients with straightforward conditions.
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 will receive feedback from tutors and peers on their participation in group activities. There will be integrated content as well as theme based content in formative assessments such as pathology and evidence based clinical practice. Students will be expected to demonstrate satisfactory performance in clinical skills activities during clinical attachments. Objective structured clinical examinations: 30% + Extended matching questions: 30% + Observed clinical encounters: 20% + Integrated clinical appraisal activity: 10% + Group assessment: 10% + Portfolio: Satisfactory completion (Hurdle requirement for progress to Year 4).
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).