MD8001:03
Foundations of Rural or Remote Medicine: Reflections on Practice
Townsville
60 hours. Flexible delivery. First and second semester.
Available to any experienced medical practitioner currently working in a rural or remote location.
Staff: Dean of School of Medicine.
This subject assists rural health practitioners to critically review their current practice in a rural or remote context and to understand their professional learning needs as a guide to selection of other subjects available in the program.
Learning Objectives:
- understanding of student’s personal medical practice, including the health care needs of their community and practice population and the range of services they provide or do not provide;
- relationships between student’s practice, other health care services and the community in which they live.
Assessment by review of a completed learning portfolio that documents the care provided to a series of patients encountered during the term (a range of different patient encounters will be required, such as: requiring urgent referral, requiring resuscitation, suffering from a mental health problem, suffering from chronic illness, etc.); an assignment that describes their community, its health care needs, the types of health care services provided by the student and how the practice relates to other health care services in the region (3,000 words).