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MD5001:24

Integrated Clinical Practice

Townsville

HECS Band 3

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

Available to students enrolled in the MBBS degree.

Staff:

Professor R Hays.

This subject is designed as a single year-long subject which builds on years one to four of the MBBS and 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.

Learning Objectives:

ability to take a focused history from and conduct a focused examination on patients with a range of health problems;

ability to generate a list of health care problems that patients may have;

ability to determine and interpret an appropriate range of clinical investigations relevant to each patient problem;

ability to generate a management plan in response to each patient problem;

to further understand the personal and professional roles of medical practitioners.

Assessment by a summative written report for each clinical rotation (4% each); an oral presentation task (5%); three integrated invigilated examinations: MCQ paper of three hours (25%), key features paper of three hours (25%) and objective structured clinical examination of three hours (25%). Written documentation of competencies in clinical setting (satisfactory level required). Attendance at clinical placements is compulsory.