Undergraduate - UnitMED4171 - Specialty clinical practices 1

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12 points, SCA Band 3, 0.250 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Offered	Clayton First semester (extended) 2012 (Day) Sunway First semester (extended) 2012 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Professor Christine McMenamin

Synopsis

Specialty Clinical Practices I provides clinical teaching in Children's Health, General Practice, Psychiatry and Women's Health. Students will undertake clinical placements in at least 2 specialty areas across the semester. Learning activities, tailored to the specific placement, may include lectures, tutorials, case-based learning, bedside tutorials, practical skills sessions, and specialty teaching clinics and directed learning activities. Students are expected to attend clinical settings, undertake independent learning activities and consolidate knowledge and skills from previous learning. EBCP and Health Systems Management components will be integrated with placement activities.

Outcomes

On successful completion, for the disciplines relevant to each of the clinical placements undertaken, students are expected to be able to:

Theme I: Personal and Professional Development

Demonstrate appropriate communication, and interpersonal and professional skills for hospital and community clinical settings
Recognise legal and ethical issues relevant to the practice of medicine.
Recognise the principles of team-work, and the role of doctors in clinical teams.

Theme II: Population, Society, Health and Illness

Explain the economic perspective on health issues and health care.
Critique evaluations of a health intervention.
Identify organisational factors which impact on patient care and participate in quality improvement processes.
Identify the impact of public health policy on the delivery of health care to the individual.
Identify relevant programs and community resources available to patients and their families.
Identify relevant approaches to health education, illness prevention and rehabilitation.

Theme III: Foundations of Medicine

Apply the knowledge and concepts of basic biological, psychological and social science to common and important clinical conditions.
Identify biological, psychological and social factors pertinent to understanding the illness and its management.
Identify common and important illnesses, conditions and disorders.

Theme IV: Clinical Skills

Elicit and record an accurate clinical history appropriate for the patients and the clinical context.
Perform and accurately record an appropriate physical examination.
Develop differential diagnoses and formulate problems.
Competently perform selected clinical practices, techniques and procedures.
Formulate appropriate patient-centred management plans and discuss management issues.
Identify appropriate and cost-effective investigation strategies.

Assessment

Summative in-semester assessment tasks (written and practical tasks) specific for the discipline area of the clinical attachments (ie Children's Health, General Practice Women's Health, and Psychiatry). Weighting 100%
Hurdle requirements for each area of clinical attachment (ie Children's Health, General Practice Women's Health) such as completion of specified clinical tasks and completion of logbooks. Successful completion of web-based Evidence-Based Clinical Practice and Health Systems Management components.
80% minimum attendance hurdle requirement