MD4001:24
Integrated Pathology and Clinical Medicine
| Townsville | HECS Band 3 |
144 hours lectures, 576 hours clinical placements. Full year.
Available to students enrolled in the MBBS degree.
Staff: Assoc. Professor A Lam, Professor M Humphrey, Professor J LaBrooy, Professor Y Ho, Assoc. Professor T Sen Gupta.
The Year 4 program is designed as a single integrated full year subject because it achieves a high level of integration across basic medical sciences, clinical pathology and clinical medicine. There are four major themes – medicine, surgery, women’s and children’s health and rural health. Approximately 50% of the year will be spent in clinical health care settings in communities across northern Australia, with the other 50% on-campus.
Learning Objectives:
- describe the pathological basis of common and/or important human diseases;
- take a focused history from and conduct a focused examination on patients with a range of health problems;
- generate a list of health care problems that patients may have;
- determine and interpret an appropriate range of clinical investigations relevant to each patient problem;
- further understand the personal and professional roles of medical practitioners.
Assessment by four integrated clinico-pathological case studies, each worth 5%, one each in family study/women’s and children’s health, medicine, surgery, rural medicine (sub-total 20%); three integrated invigilated examinations: MCQ paper of three hours, key features problem paper of three hours, objective structured clinical examination of three hours (80%).