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510-113 Health Practice 2 | |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 3 |
Coordinator | Dr A. Nori |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | Health and society: 28 hours of lectures and tutorials. Human mind and behaviour: 28 hours of lectures and tutorials. Introduction to clinical medicine: Six 2-hour tutorials/demonstrations and six 2-hour clinical placements/tutorials |
Subject Description | This semester builds on concepts in Semester 1. The health and society component will provide an introduction to clinical reasoning and decision making in medical care and how evidence can be used in clinical practice. Content areas include addressing the social, ethical, legal and financial aspects in clinical decision making. This will be supported by teaching students the fundamental skills of quantitative reasoning of population data, critical appraisal of research data to inform clinical decisions. The human mind and behaviour component will investigate the concepts of development, personality and coping and explore their inter-relationships. The introduction to clinical medicine component will introduce the structured medical interview with emphasis on nutrition, the gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary systems and abdominal physical examination. |
Assessment | Health and society and human mind and behaviour: 1.5-hour written examination (60%); written assignments of not more than 1500 words in total (10%). Introduction to clinical medicine: performance-based assessment in the form of an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) which includes direct observation of medical interview, communication skills and physical examination (30%). |
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