MED4082

Women's and children's health ( 24 points, SCA Band 3, 0.500 EFTSL)

Leader: Dr Carol Lawson & Dr Pam Brewster

Offered:
Clayton 1-32 2006 (Day)
Clayton 2-32 2006 (Day)

Synopsis: MED4082 provides clinical teaching including patient clerking (history taking and examination), patient management for both in-patient and outpatient settings. Structured learning activities including specialty teaching clinics, tutorials and case based learning for key concepts. Experience in newborn care, paediatric emergencies and paramedical programs. Attachment to delivery suite, antenatal and gynaecology clinics including family planning, infertility, sexual counselling, sexually transmitted diseases, fetal diagnosis, high risk obstetrics and genetics. EBCP, health economics and health systems management will be integrated into teaching and learning activities in this unit.

Objectives: On successful completion of Year 4, for each of the key discipline areas, students are expected to be able to: Theme 1: Personal and Professional Development 1. demonstrate appropriate communication, and interpersonal and professional skills for hospital and community clinical settings; 2. recognise legal and ethical issues relevant to the practice of medicine; 3. recognise the principles of team-work, and the role of doctors in clinical teams; Theme 2: Population, Society, Health and Illness 4. explain the economic perspective on health issues and health care; 5. critique evaluations of a health intervention; 6. identify organisational factors which impact on patient care and participate in quality improvement processes; 7. identify the impact of public health policy on the delivery of health care to the individual; 8. identify relevant programs and community resources available to patients and their families; 9. identify relevant approaches to health education, illness prevention and rehabilitation; Theme 3: Foundations of Medicine 10. apply the knowledge and concepts of basic biological, psychological and social science to common and important clinical conditions; 11. identify biological, psychological and social factors pertinent to understanding the illness and its management; 12. identify common and important illnesses, conditions and disorders; Theme 4: Clinical Skills 13. elicit and record an accurate clinical history appropriate for the patients and the clinical context; 14. perform and accurately record an appropriate physical examination; 15. develop differential diagnoses and formulate problems; 16. competently perform selected clinical practices, techniques and procedures; 17. formulate appropriate patient-centred management plans and discuss management issues; and 18. identify appropriate and cost-effective investigation strategies.

Assessment: Assessments are continuous and will be both formative and summative. Formative assessment may include written instruments such as EMQs and short answer questions linked with case based learning scenarios together with observation of clinical skills and completion of a clinical skills logbook. Students will be expected to demonstrate satisfactory performance in clinical skills activities during clinical attachments in order to pass the unit. In addition, students must satisfactorily complete in-course assessment tasks for evidence-based clinical practice and health systems management or health economics. Summative assessment may include written examinations (EMQ, MCQ, short answer), oral presentations and OSCEs. Full details of assessment instruments and weightings will be notified at the start of the year. After successful completion of MED4071 and MED4082 students will undertake a written vertically integrated assessment (VIA) examination. Students must achieve a satisfactory performance in the VIA examination to complete the medical course. An overall result for Year 4 will be based upon achievement in MED4071, MED4082 and the VIA examination.

Contact Hours: This is a 24 point unit over 18 weeks in continuous rotations through clinical attachments.

Prerequisites: MED3051, MED3062