Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

 Medicine

Table of Contents

Subject Lists
    First year
    Second year
    Third year
    Fourth year
    Fifth year
    Sixth year

First year

510-110 Principles of Biomedical Science
510-111 Health Practice 1
510-112 Nutrition Digestion & Metabolism
510-113 Health Practice 2

Second year

510-210 Cardio-respiratory & Locomotor Systems
510-211 Health Practice 3
510-212 Control Systems,Growth and Development
510-213 Health Practice 4

Third year

526-032 Microbiology & Immunology
531-031 Pathology 1 - 3rd Year M.B.,B.S.
534-031 Pharmacology - 3rd Year M.B.,B.S.
585-031 Public Health and Community Medicine
510-304 Advanced Study Units - 3rd Yr.M.B.,B.S.#
510-302 Introduction To Clinical Medicine #

Fourth year

510-490 Clinical Medicine, Surgery & Pathology
510-492 Advanced Study Units (Fourth Year) #

Fifth year

510-591 Paediatrics
510-592 Psychiatry
510-593 Obstetrics & Gynaecology
510-594 General Practice and Community Medicine

Sixth year

Prescribed texts: As for Fourth Year Medicine and Surgery, Fifth Year Pediatrics, Psychiatry, General Practice and Community Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, plus: Bennett J C & Plum, Cecil's Textbook of Medicine20th ed. 1996 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 - 6th Year M.B.,B.S.
510-692 Surgery - 6th Year M.B.,B.S.

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