MED4200 · Integrated clinical studies

Overview

Integrated Clinical Studies builds upon learning in the specialty clinical areas of Children's Health, General Practice, Psychiatry and Women's Health. You will undertake clinical placements in each specialty clinical areas across the year. Learning activities specific to each specialty area will be linked to the specific clinical placement and may include lectures, tutorials, case-based learning, bedside tutorials, practical skills sessions, and specialty teaching clinics and directed learning activities. You are expected to consolidate knowledge and skills through both experiential learning in clinical settings and self directed study.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook lists an examination for this unit.

Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment tasks. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Demonstrate ethical, professional and personal responsibility and behaviours consistent with good clinical practice and professional codes of practice.
2. Apply the knowledge, skills and conduct necessary for safe, compassionate, and patient-centred health care.
3. Acknowledge own social determinants of health and access to health care and suggest ways to promote culturally responsive practice in primary health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients and families.
4. Source, interpret and critically review medical and scientific literature pertinent to health care.
5. Relate key concepts in population health, epidemiology and measurement of health and disease in populations to health care practices observed in clinical settings.
6. Explain key concepts in health system management and the judicious, sustainable use of health care resources.
7. Elicit accurate histories and perform relevant physical examinations, and interpret findings to formulate differential diagnosis.
8. Select investigations relevant to clinical findings, pathology of the disease and practicality, interpret the results, and develop management plans.

Workload

This is a 24 credit point unit over 2 x18 week semesters in continuous rotations through clinical attachments. 80% minimum attendance hurdle requirement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.