Fifth year consists of a series of hospital rotations with a strong emphasis on hands-on experience. Rotations are through medicine, surgery, paediatrics and obstetrics and gynaecology with specific teaching in palliative care and infectious diseases together with an elective term. The major hospitals involved in these rotations include Monash Medical Centre (Clayton and Moorabbin campuses), the Alfred group of hospitals (Alfred Hospital and Caulfield General Medical Centre), and Box Hill, Mornington Peninsula, Dandenong and various country hospitals. The tuition is in many cases strengthened by using a log-book approach to check that all students have been trained in the appropriate procedures and skills.
Prescribed texts
Hull D and Johnston D Essential paediatrics 3rd edn,
Churchill Livingstone, 1993 or
Robinson M J Practical paediatrics 3rd edn, Churchill Livingstone, 1994
and
MacMahon R A An aid to paediatric surgery 2nd edn, Churchill Livingston,
1991
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Behrman R E and Vaughan V C Nelson's `Textbook of
paediatrics' 14th edn, Saunders, 1992
Beishcer N A and Mackay E V Obstetrics and the newborn Saunders, 1986
Bennett J C (ed.) Cecil `Textbook of medicine' 20th edn, Saunders,
1996
Brown R B Clinical urology illustrated Adis Press, 1982
Chamberlain J V P Obstetrics by ten teachers 16th edn, 1995
Chamberlain J V P Gynaecology by ten teachers 16th edn, 1995
Clayton S G (ed) Obstetrics by ten teachers Arnold, 1972
Clayton S G (ed.) Gynaecology by ten teachers Arnold, 1972
Doyle D Oxford textbook of palliative medicine OUP, 1993
Foxen E H N Lecture notes on diseases of the ear, nose and throat 5th
edn, Blackwell Scientific, 1981
Friedin J and Marshall V Illustrated guide to surgical practice
Churchill Livingstone, 1984
Garrey M M and others Obstetrics illustrated Churchill Livingstone,
1980
Gilman A G and others (eds) Goodman and Gilman's `Pharmacological
basis of therapeutics' 9th edn, McGraw-Hill, 1996
Hughes E S R and others Cabrini surgical lectures Hughes, 1989
Hutson J, Beasley S, and Woodward A (eds) Jones' `Clinical paediatric
surgery' 3rd edn, Ure-Smith, 1992
Illingworth R S The normal child 10th edn, Churchill Livingston, 1991
Isselbacher K J Harrison's `Principles of internal medicine' 13th edn,
McGraw-Hill, 1994
Kay A Essentials of neurosurgery Churchill Livingstone, 1990
Kincaid-Smith and others Textbook of clinical medicine 2nd edn, Adis,
1990
Llewellyn-Jones D Fundamentals of obstetrics and gynaecology vol. 1,
Obstetrics Faber, 1982
Macdonald R R (ed.) Scientific basis of obstetrics and gynaecology
Churchill Livingstone, 1985
Mackay E and others Illustrated textbook of gynaecology Saunders,
1983
McGregor I A Fundamental techniques of plastic surgery and their surgical
application 8th edn, Churchill Livingstone, 1989
Novak E R and Woodruff J D Novak's `Gynaecologic and obstetric
pathology' Saunders, 1979
O'Driscoll K and Meagher D Active management of labour 1980
Philipp E E and others Scientific foundations of obstetrics and
gynaecology Heinemann, 1986
Pritchard J A and McDonald P D Williams' `Obstetrics' ACC, 1985
Sapira J D The science of bedside diagnosis Urban Schwarzenberg, 1990
Souhami R L and Moxham J (eds) Textbook of medicine 2nd edn, Churchill
Livingstone, 1994
Stein J H (ed.) Internal medicine 2nd edn, Little Brown, 1987
Tindall V R Illustrated textbook of gynaecology Gower, 1991
Wahlqvist M and Vobecky J (eds) Patient problems in clinical nutrition: a
manual Libbey, 1987
Weatherall D J and others (eds) Oxford textbook of medicine 3 vols, 3rd
edn, OUP, 1996
Wilson J D and others (eds) Harrison's `Principles of internal medicine'
12th edn, McGraw-Hill, 1991
Wood C and Westmore A Test tube conception Hill of Content, 1983