Monash University

Leader: Dr Amanda Walker and Dr Danielle Wilkins

Offered

Clayton First semester (extended) 2008 (Day)
Clayton Second semester (extended) 2008 (Day)
Sunway First semester (extended) 2008 (Day)
Sunway Second semester (extended) 2008 (Day)

Synopsis

MED4082 provides clinical teaching in Women's & Children's Health. It includes patient clerking, involvement in patient management for both in-patient and ambulatory settings. Structured learning activities include specialty teaching clinics, tutorials and case-based learning. Experience newborn care, paediatric emergencies, tertiary and community based paediatric medical and surgical programs. Experience delivery suite, antenatal, gynaecology clinics - family planning, infertility, sexual counselling, sexually transmitted diseases, fetal diagnosis, high risk obstetrics, genetics. EBCP, Health Economics, Health Systems Mgt will be integrated into teaching/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 clinical skills tutorials and completion of a clinical skills logbook. Students will be expected to demonstrate satisfactory performance in clinical skills activities in order to pass the unit. In addition, students must satisfactorily complete in-semester assessment tasks for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice and Health Systems Management or Health Economics. Summative assessment may include written examinations (EMQ, MCQ), oral presentation and OSCEs. In-semester summative assessment tasks contribute 30%; written examination contributes 35%; and OSCE contributes 35% to overall mark in MED4082. Hurdle requirement: Students must attend a minimum of 80% tutorials and clinical placements to pass this unit. 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

Co-requisites

Must be enrolled in the MBBS or MBBS/LLB