MD6120 - Advanced Clinical Medicine (Honours) Part 2 of 3

Credit points:	09
Year:	2018
Student Contribution Band:	Band 3
Subject chain:	MD6110 MD6120 MD6130
Administered by:	College of Medicine & Dentistry

Available only to MBBS Hons students

This subject is part of a two-year Honours course that includes the normal requirements of the parallel pass degree subjects MD6010, MD6020 and MD6030. It will therefore build on the content of MD5010, MD5020 and MD5030 to achieve a high level of integration between the basic medical sciences and the knowledge, skills and attitudes required for clinical health care, through four ten-week rotations in various clinical health care settings. Students enrolled in the honours course will complete the research task that builds upon the preparatory work for their project in MD5110, MD5120 and MD5130.

Learning Outcomes

• ability to take a focused history from and conduct a focused examination on patients with a range of health problems;
• to 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;
• to generate a list of health care problems that patients may have;
• to undertake an internship in any Australian hospital;
• demonstrate a high level mastery of integration of basic and clinical medical research, a capacity to analyse the literature and apply it in a clinical context.

Prerequisites:	MD6110 ALLOW CONCURRENT WITH MD6110
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	MD7101 MD7102 MD7103 MD7104 MD7105 MD7106

Availabilities
As this subject is part of a subject chain, a final standard grade (e.g. P, C) will only be recorded for each subject after successful completion of all parts of the subject chain.
Townsville, Placement/work experience, Study Period 1
Census Date 22-Mar-2018
Coordinator:	Professor John McBride, jc246242
Lecturers:	Dr Teresa O'Connor, Professor Tarun Sen Gupta, Professor Sarah Larkins, Assoc. Professor Peta-Ann Teague, Professor Richard Murray.
Contact hours:	20 hours lectures - Introductory sessions for each clinical rotation including WOY presentations 20 hours tutorials - Clinical tutorials for each clinical rotation 20 hours workshops/Seminars - Scheduled sessions related to research activities 1250 hours clinical placement
Assessment:	integrated assessment across subject chain (%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Satisfactory attendance is required at community and clinical placements. Satisfactory academic and professional standards, as described in the College program Assessment Guidelines, must be achieved. The Honours requirement includes an Exit Seminar and Thesis.

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.