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Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Subject Lists
First Year
Second Year
Third Year
Fourth Year
Fifth Year
Sixth Year
516-011 Anatomy
516-012 Medical Biology
610-005 Medical Chemistry
585-011 Health and Illness in Society
536-011 Physiology
640-124 Biomedical Physics
516-021 Anatomy
516-023 Medical Biology
521-021 General Biochemistry
536-021 Physiology
516-022 Neuroscience
512-021 Behavioural Science
521-022 Functional Biochemistry
536-022 Integrated Body Function
531-031 Pathology 1
534-031 Pharmacology
526-032 Microbiology and Immunology
585-031 Public Health and Community Medicine
510-304 Advanced Study Units
510-302 Introduction to Clinical Medicine
510-490 Clinical Medicine and Surgery
510-492 Advanced Study Units
531-491 Pathology 2
510-591 Pediatrics
510-592 Psychiatry
510-593 Obstetrics and Gynaecology
510-594 General Practice and Community Medicine
Prescribed texts: As for Fourth Year Medicine and Surgery, Fifth Year Pediatrics, Psychiatry, General Practice and Community Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, plus: Wyngarden J B and Smith L H Textbook of Medicine 18th ed. 1988 Saunders or Stein J H Internal Medicine 2nd ed. 1987 Little Brown or Souhami & Morham Textbook of Medicine 1990 Churchill Livingstone or Rubinstein & Wayne Lecture Notes in Clinical Medicine 1991.
Options
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.
Description: The objective is to give students the opportunity to widen their experience and knowledge in an area or areas of interest to them. Examples of how this may be achieved include: 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; working in situations giving greater responsibility in the care of patients than ordinarily applies in the undergraduate course; sampling the broad demands of medical practice in the community; travelling away from the parent hospital to experience health care in the country, or in interstate or overseas hospitals; studying an academic or professional field not taught within the course but which could be of value in later professional life; experiencing possible fields of future specialisation so as to facilitate later 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.
510-691 Medicine
510-692 Surgery
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