MMED8202 Introduction to Clinical Performance

2012

9

13 x 6-hour lectures per semester
4 x 6-hour tutorials per semester
1 x 6-hour practical weekly
1 x 20-hour clinical placement once-only
1 x 4-hour independent study weekly
1 x 1-hour on-line exercises fortnightly
1 x 4-hour exam (medicine only) per semester

1 Admission into BMBSG-Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (Graduate Entry)
1a Admission into BCLSBMBS-Bachelor of Clinical Sciences/Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
1b Admission into BMBS-Bachelor of Clinical Sciences/Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
1c Admission into BCLSMD-Bachelor of Clinical Sciences/Doctor of Medicine
1d Admission into MD-Doctor of Medicine
1e Admission into MDC-Bachelor of Clinical Sciences/Doctor of Medicine
1f Admission into MDJ-Doctor of Medicine
2 MMED8100 - First Year Medicine Aggregate (36 Units)
Must Satisfy: ((1 or 1a or 1b or 1c or 1d or 1e or 1f) and 2)

Assignment(s); Examination; Placement; Oral; Tutorial participation and presentation; Practical work.

The topic is an integrated practical & theoretical introduction to the practice of medicine, surgery, rehabilitation & chronic care. Students participate in programmed sessions dealing with communication and patient interaction skills, clinical procedures, history taking and physical examination in medical practice. The following knowledge, skills & procedures are reinforced & developed as part of the Transition to Clinical Practice program embedded in this topic: clinical interviewing, communication skills, history taking, physical examination, intimate examinations, verbal and written presentation skills, clinical procedures, basic and intermediate emergency care, ethical and legal concerns related to clinical skills; personal development, student-patient, student-hospital, student-doctor and student-allied health professional relationships; the effects of gender, class & ethnicity on communication and the development of professional relationships.

The topic aims to continue to familiarise students with the scientific basis of medicine by providing them with knowledge of the normal structure and function of the human body at the molecular, cellular, organ and total individual levels of organisation. In addition the more practical aspects of medical practice are given greater emphasis than before in order to prepare students for their clinical placements in the following year.

Students are expected to develop competence in:

• communication skills

• patient interaction

• clinical history taking

• physical examination

• patient presentation skills (written and verbal)

• basic/Intermediate Life support

• clinical procedures

By the end of this topic students will have advanced their clinical history taking and physical examination skills, and learned some basic procedural skills, in preparation for clinical work in the following year.