MMED9350 Medicine 3A

Students enrolled in this topic must meet a number of requirements including fitness for clinical placement, immunisation, criminal history check and student registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.

This topic includes work integrated learning clinical placements offered as a continuum over year 3 and 4. Students undertake supervised experience within Medicine, Surgery, Anaesthesia, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, General Practice and Psychiatry over Years 3 and 4. Students participate in a range of activities in clinical settings, attend lectures and tutorials and undertake self-directed learning. Students will focus on acquiring important knowledge and principles in all clinical disciplines and developing their ability to diagnose and manage common clinical problems.

Students will gain competence in communication and patient interaction skills, clinical skills and minor procedures within disciplines. Clinical skills learned in previous years are extended and applied within clinical settings and new skills and procedures are developed. Teaching and learning takes place within structured clinical skills workshops, bedside and ambulatory teaching and individually supervised sessions. Students will demonstrate self-regulated learning development across all eight course learning outcomes.

This topic aims for students to continue to build on the medical knowledge they have gained in their pre-clinical years and apply this knowledge in a clinical setting. Students will demonstrate their competence in communication and patient interaction skills, clinical skills and minor procedures in Medicine, Surgery, Anaesthesia, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, General Practice and Psychiatry. The clinical skills and procedures learned in previous years are developed within the clinical settings and new skills are acquired. Students will also continue to improve their capabilities in self-regulated learning, being a responsible group member and leader, and in demonstrating appropriate professionalism.

1. Demonstrate ongoing acquisition, consolidation and integration of evidenced-based medical and health related research; and a sound understanding of research methods; relating to biological and clinical knowledge of health and illness, epidemiological, social and behavioural science
2. Demonstrate growing competency in applying core and integrated medical and scientific knowledge to individual patients in the clinical practice environment and to populations and health systems
3. Demonstrate higher level ability to make complex decisions about patient health status, and begin to apply preventative and therapeutic interventions safely, legally and ethically, with reference to social and societal environment
4. Develop competency in clear and effective communication, with cultural safety, in the context of diverse and inter-professional healthcare teams, to elicit information needed in the care of patients and patient populations
5. Demonstrate further understanding of the Australian health care system, the social determinants of health, and variance of health and illness in different contexts of society
6. Demonstrate independence, collaboration, and self-regulated learning; with an awareness of limitations of their own knowledge and capabilities
7. Demonstrate leadership competency in communicating and working and learning in inter-professional teams
8. Exhibit professional behaviour towards patients and their families, staff, health care teams and other students, in accordance with Australian Medical Board's document: Good Medical Practice: A Code of Conduct for Doctors in Australia July 2010.