MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Medicine Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Caution
Copyright © Monash University 1996
ISBN 1037-0919
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Sixth year
Sixth year consists of a six-week term of combined clinical and community
health studies followed by six 5-week terms. These cover medicine, surgery,
community medicine, psychological medicine, and specialty areas of medicine and
surgery as well as further aspects of forensic medicine, geriatric medicine,
palliative care, rehabilitation medicine, social and preventive medicine and
therapeutics. During the year an opportunity will be given to students to spend
time in a large private hospital in the city, in a rural attachment and various
levels of involvement in a student internship.
Sixth-year text books
Prescribed texts
- Bloch S and Singh B The foundations of clinical psychiatry MUP, 1993
- Braunwald E (ed.) Heart disease: A textbook of cardiovascular
medicine 4th edn, Saunders, 1992
- Brenner B M and Selwyn A The kidney in health and disease Blackwell
Scientific, 1984
- Champion R H and others Textbook of dermatology (4 vols), 5th edn,
Blackwell Scientific, 1992
- de Vita V T and Hellman S Cancer: Principles and practice of
oncology 3rd edn, Lippincott, 1989
- Firkin F and others (eds) de Gruchy's `Clinical haematology in medical
practice' 5th edn, Blackwell Scientific, 1989
- McCarty D J (ed.) Arthritis and allied conditions 11th edn, Lea and
Febiger, 1989
- Seaton A and others (eds) Crofton and Douglas's `Respiratory
diseases' 4th edn, Blackwell Scientific, 1989
- Sherlock S Diseases of the liver and biliary system 7th edn,
Blackwell Scientific, 1985
- Sleisenger M H and Fordtran J S (eds) Gastrointestinal disease,
pathophysiology, diagnosis and management (2 vols), 4th edn, Saunders, 1989
- Wahlqvist M (ed.) Food and nutrition in Australia 3rd edn, Nelson,
1988
- Walton J N (ed.) Brain's `Diseases of the nervous system' 9th edn,
OUP, 1985
- Williams R H (ed.) Textbook of endocrinology 7th edn, Saunders, 1985
- And regular reading of one (or more) of the following journals:
- The Medical Journal of Australia
- The New England Journal of Medicine
- The Lancet
- The British Medical Journal
Recommended texts
- American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and statistical manual of
mental disorders 3rd rev. edn, APS, 1987
- Beumont P J V and Hampshire R B Textbook of psychiatry Blackwell,
1989
- Bourne S Under the doctor: Studies in the psychological problems of
physiotherapists, patients and doctors Avebury, 1981
- Brocklehurst A Geriatric medicine for students 3rd edn, Churchill
Livingstone
- Cassem N H Massachussetts General Hospital handbook of general hospital
psychiatry 3rd edn, PSG, 1991
- Coni N and others Lecture notes on geriatrics 4th edn, Blackwell
Scientific, 1993
- DeLisa J A (ed.) Rehabilitation medicine: Principles and practice
Lippincott, 1993
- Gelder M and others Oxford textbook of psychiatry Oxford Medical,
1989
- Goldman H H Review of general psychiatry 2nd edn, Lange, 1988
- Kaplan H I and Sadock B J Comprehensive textbook of psychiatry 5th
edn, Williams and Wilkins, 1989
- Kaplan H I and Sadock B J Synopsis of psychiatry Williams and
Wilkins, 1988
- Nicholi A M (ed.) The Harvard guide to modern psychiatry Harvard U
P, 1988
- Penington G and Burry H C Introduction to medical rehabilitation: An
Australian perspective MUP, 1990
- Plueckhahn V D and Cordner S M Ethics, legal medicine and forensic
pathology 2nd edn, MUP, 1991
- Reiser D E and Rosen D H Medicine as a human experience University
Park Press, 1985
- Souhami R L and Moxham J (eds) Textbook of medicine Churchill
Livingstone, 1990
- Warne P A manual of geriatric care Williams and Wilkins
Sixth-year subjects
+ MED6000 Clinical studies
+ MED6001 Community medicine
+ MED6002 Psychological medicine
+ MED6003 Combined clinical and community health studies
+ MED6004 Geriatric and rehabilitation medicine
+ MED6005 Public health and forensic medicine
+ MED6006 Therapeutics
+ MED6007 Medicine (city/rural)
+ MED6008 Surgery (city/rural) and anaesthetics
+ MED6009 Medicine final grade
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