Medicine

Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
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Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

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    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

510-310 Defence Mechanisms and Their Failure
510-311 Health Practice 5
510-320 Advanced Medical Science 1

Fourth year

510-420 Advanced Medical Science 2
510-511 Integrated Clinical Studies

Fifth year

510-610 Women's and Children's Health
510-611 Specialty Health Rotations

Sixth year

Elective options

Contact: A minimum of eight weeks devoted to an approved program of study. The period may be subdivided into two four-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 electives, 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 General Practice and Public Health (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 General Practice 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, electives will not be approved which consist of normal clinical teaching in the general teaching hospitals.

Note: See the School of Medicine office for information about loans to assist in overseas travel.

Prescribed texts: As for old curriculum fourth-year medicine and surgery, fifth-year paediatrics, psychiatry, general practice and community medicine and obstetrics and gynaecology, plus: J C Bennett & F Plum, Cecil's Textbook of Medicine, 20th edn, Saunders, 1996; or J H Stein, Internal Medicine, 3rd edn, Little Brown, 1990 or R L Souhami & J Morham, Textbook of Medicine, 3rd edn, Churchill Livingstone, 1997 or D Rubinstein, Lecture Notes in Clinical Medicine, 5th edn, Blackwell Livingstone, 1997.

510-691 Medicine - 6th Year M.B.,B.S.
510-692 Surgery - 6th Year M.B.,B.S.