MD5001 - Integrated Clinical Practice

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

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 Outcomes

• ability to determine and interpret an appropriate range of clinical investigations relevant to each patient problem;
• ability to generate a list of health care problems that patients may have;
• ability to generate a management plan in response to each patient problem;
• ability to take a focused history from and conduct a focused examination on patients with a range of health problems;
• to further understand the personal and professional roles of medical practitioners.

Prerequisites:	MD4001
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	MD5101

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
Coordinator:	Professor Richard Hays
Lecturers:	jc122670, Professor Richard Hays.
Contact hours:	40 hours 40 hours 720 hours
Assessment:	(75%); (25%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	<i>Satisfactory performance in the five clinical rotations assessments is required to sit the end of year examinations.</i> Written documentation of competencies in clinical settings at a satisfactory level is required. Attendance at clinical placements is compulsory.

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.