MMED8302 Clinical Performance 3A

2012

13.5

1 x 3-hour lecture weekly
1 x 3-hour tutorial weekly
1 x 24-hour clinical placement weekly

1 Admission into BCLSMD-Bachelor of Clinical Sciences/Doctor of Medicine
1a Admission into MD-Doctor of Medicine
1b Admission into MDC-Bachelor of Clinical Sciences/Doctor of Medicine
1c Admission into MDJ-Doctor of Medicine
2 MMED8200 - Second Year Medicine Aggregate (36 units)
Must Satisfy: ((1 or 1a or 1b or 1c) and 2)

1 of MMED9350, MMED9352 has been successfully completed

Assignments; Examination; Placement; Seminar; Tests.

This topic is taught and assessed as a continuum with MMED8303 (Clinical Performance 3 B).

Students are provided with supervised experience in the disciplines of Medicine, Surgery, Anaesthesia, Paediatrics and Child Health, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, General Practice and Psychiatry. Students will participate in a range of activities in clinical settings, attend lectures and tutorials and undertake self-directed learning. During their attachments, they will focus on the acquisition of important knowledge and principles in each of the clinical disciplines and the development of abilities in the diagnosis and management of common clinical problems.

Students gain competence in communication and patient interaction skills, clinical skills and minor procedures in medicine, surgery and anaesthesia, women's and children's health, general practice and psychiatry. The clinical skills learned in previous years are extended and applied within the clinical settings and new skills and procedures developed. Teaching and learning takes place within ward attachments, outpatient clinics, community settings and in general practice. There is a combination of structured clinical skills workshops, bedside and ambulatory teaching and individually supervised sessions.

This topic aims to provide students with a range of clinical experiences supported by a formal program of tutorials and workshops. Students will have the opportunity to develop a clinical approach to working through common presentations and achieve the following learning outcomes. Assessments are all based on clinical presentations requiring a clinical process of working.

In this topic students gain competence in communication and patient interaction skills, clinical skills and minor procedures in medicine, surgery, anaesthesia, women's and children's health, general practice and psychiatry. The clinical skills and procedures learned in previous years are developed within the clinical settings and new skills are acquired.

On completion of this topic, students should be able to:

• Practice patient care as part of a clinical team

• Recognise common disease states and to assess patients presenting with these problems

• Apply the scientific basis of medicine and be proficient in medical diagnosis and in the formulation of management plans

• Demonstrate an adequate knowledge base for understanding common problems in clinical medicine

• Demonstrate practical clinical reasoning and problem solving skills at the bedside

• Use a PBL approach in recognition, assessment and management of common conditions

• Apply Information Technology skills to the understanding of specific medical and health problems

• Demonstrate the professional attitudes of a clinical practitioner

• Demonstrate a broad range of clinical skills, including performing accurate clinical histories and examinations from a wide range of patients

• Apply clinical skills to assess and manage a wide range of common clinical and psychosocial problems

• Demonstrate an understanding of the significance of family and carers in treatment and rehabilitation, and the ongoing management of chronic disease and disability
• Enhance communication skills, especially in the areas of documentation, reporting, health promotion and counselling including breaking bad news

• Demonstrate skills in building a relationship with patients

• Refelct on how patients experience illness within the health care system

• Apply principles of cultural safety to clinic practice

• Recognise ethical issues in health care

• Describe the role of general practice within the health care system

• Demonstrate an awareness of the need to look after their own health to be effective doctors

• Demonstrate skills in simple clinical procedures

• Demonstrate basic in-hospital emergency skills.