Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
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Prescribed texts: As for Fourth Year Medicine and Surgery, Fifth Year Paediatrics, Psychiatry, General Practice and Community Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, plus: Wyngarden J B and Smith L H Textbook of Medicine 18th edition 1988 Saunders or Stein J H Internal Medicine 2nd edition 1987 Little Brown or Souhami & Morham Textbook of Medicine 1990 Churchill Livingstone or Rubinstein & Wayne Lecture Notes in Clinical Medicine 1991.
Contact: A minimum of eight weeks devoted to an approved program of study. The period may be subdivided into two 4-week periods, but periods of attachment of less than five weeks are unlikely to be approved. Attachments may begin during the long vacation and the timing can be varied.
Special requirements: Students must make their own arrangements for options, which should be planned during fifth year. A proposal stipulating the duration of attachment, nature of the work and its location, and a proposed supervisor must be submitted through the Clinical Dean for approval by the faculty. Students should seek advice from the Clinical Dean of their teaching hospital, the Head of the Department of Community Medicine (with respect to general practice), or the Heads of other academic departments.
Objectives: Students are to widen their experience in one of the following ways: by examining in greater depth some aspect of medicine, either through supervised work on a project, or by close contact in clinical activities with members of the teaching staff or other members of the profession; by working in situations giving greater responsibility in the care of patients than ordinarily applies in the undergraduate course; by sampling the broad demands of medical practice in the community; by travel away from the parent hospital and experience of health care in the country, in interstate or overseas hospitals; by study in an academic or professional field not taught within the course but which could be of value in later professional life; experience of possible fields of future specialisation so as to facilitate career choice.
Content: One of the following: examination of an aspect of medicine in greater depth, either through supervised project work or close contact in clinical activities with members of the teaching staff or other members of the profession. Work with greater responsibility in patient care than ordinarily applies in the undergraduate course. Sampling the broad demands of medical practice in the community. Experience of health care in the country, in interstate or overseas hospitals. Study in an academic or professional field not taught in the course which could be of value in later professional life. Experience of possible fields of future specialisation to facilitate career choice.
Assessment: The Clinical Dean or the Head of the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine will obtain reports from both student and supervisor. Remedial options will be undertaken by students who have failed one subject in the fifth year of the course; these will be followed by supplementary assessment in the unit concerned. With this exception, options will not be approved which consist of normal clinical teaching in the general teaching hospitals.
Note: See the Faculty Office for information about loans to assist in overseas travel.
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 10 1995 Last modified: Oct 10 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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