units

MFM5007

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

18 September 2017 22 November 2024
Monash University

Postgraduate - Unit

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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12 points, SCA Band 3, 0.250 EFTSL

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LevelPostgraduate
FacultyFaculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational UnitDepartment of General Practice
OfferedClayton First semester 2014 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)Dr Peter Barton

Synopsis

This unit is a compulsory core unit for the MFM(Clin) course. It discusses the general practitioner as a learner and a teacher, what is learning, what is teaching, instructional design, educational technology, small group process, large group process, assessment and evaluation.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit participants should be able to:

  1. Enhance the knowledge and skills of students in the areas of learning and teaching family medicine;
  2. Enable students to apply these skills in a range of educational settings, including the consultation, groups of lay people, medical undergraduates and postgraduates, peers and allied health professionals;
  3. Recognise the nature of assessment and program evaluation;
  4. Carry out assessment and simple evaluation tasks (Masters students) which indicate that an appreciation of these areas has been achieved;
  5. Demonstrate and record two teaching sessions which reflect an acquisition of the microskills of teaching (all students).

Assessment

Journals (40%), Classroom presentations (60%)

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Peter Barton