James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2003

MD5101:24

Integrated Clinical Practice (Honours) *

40 hours lectures, 40 hours tutorials, 720 hours clinical experience. Full year, Limited Attendance.

Available to students enrolled in the MBBS(Hons).

Staff: Professor R Hays.

This subject is designed as a single year-long subject which achieves a high level of integration between the basic medical sciences and the knowledge, skills and attitudes required for clinical health care. It will be spent in five eight-week rotations in various clinical health care settings. Students enrolled in honours will undertake an additional task that comprises a detailed exploration of a selected clinical issue based on patients encountered during the clinical rotations within the academic year. Students will be required to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how basic medical and social sciences impact on clinical medical care and to identify potential research questions.

Learning Objectives:

1. ability to take a focused history from and conduct a focused examination on patients with a range of health problems;
2. ability to generate a list of health care problems that patients may have;
3. ability to determine and interpret an appropriate range of clinical investigations relevant to each patient problem;
4. ability to generate a management plan in response to each patient problem;
5. to further understand the personal and professional roles of medical practitioners;
6. to demonstrate a high level mastery of integration of basic and clinical medical sciences;
7. to demonstrate a capacity to analyse the literature and apply it in a clinical context.

Assessment by a written and oral report task for each clinical rotation (sub-total 20%); end-of-year integrate clinical examination (60%); honours project (20%). The grading of honours awarded at the completion of year six will be based on a combination of scores in clinical assessment and for additional tasks.