MD6101 - Advanced Clinical Medicine (Honours)

Credit points:	24
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 3
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Available to students enrolled in the MBBS (Hons) degree.

This subject is part of a two-year Honours course that includes the normal requirements of the parallel pass degree subject MD6001. It will therefore build on the content of MD5101 to achieve a high level of integration between the basic medical sciences and the knowledge, skills and attitudes required for clinical health care, through five eight-week rotations in various clinical health care settings. Students enrolled in the honours course will undertake a research-based task in their elective rotation (one of the five) that builds upon the preparatory work for their project in MD5101.

Learning Outcomes

• take a focused history from and conduct a focused examination on patients with a range of health problems and 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 and generate a management plan in response to each patient problem;
• further understand the personal and professional roles of medical practitioners;
• demonstrate high level mastery of integration of basic and clinical medical sciences;
• demonstrate a capacity to analyse the literature and apply it in a clinical context.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to speak and write logically, clearly and creatively;
• The ability to use and interpret different media;
• The ability to use a variety of media and methods to retrieve, analyse, evaluate, organise and present information;
• The ability to learn independently and in a self-directed manner.

Prerequisites:	MD5101
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	MD6001

Availabilities
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Census Date 06-May-2005
Non-standard start/end 17-Jan-2005 to 02-Dec-2005
Face to face teaching 17-Jan-2005 to 18-Nov-2005
Coord/Lect:	Professor Richard Hays.
Contact hours:	40 hours 40 hours 720 hours
Assessment:	(5%); (80%); (15%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Attendance at clinical placements is compulsory. <i> Students requiring remediation in up to two clinical disciplines will be required to undertake remedial clinical placements during the Clinical Elective period.</i>
Restrictions:	An enrolment quota applies to this offering.

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.