510-211 Health Practice 3

This semester explores systematic approaches to understanding causality of illness and identifying risk factors. The role of genetic, social, psychological and environmental factors will be explored. Students will be introduced to the concept of evidence-based medicine and systematic methods for collecting and critically appraising evidence. Individual and population-based intervention strategies will be discussed together with aspects of disease prevention and health promotion. Students will be expected to be able to take a clinical smoking history, asthma history, chest-pain history and dyspnoea history, and to be able to develop a diagnostic hypothesis.

Please refer to Health Practice 1.

Written assignment of no more than 2500 words (30%); end-of-semester written examination of 2 hours (50% - hurdle requirement), performance-based assessment in the form of an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) which includes direct observation of a clinical interview (20%) and physical examination (hurdle requirement). Hurdle requirement: 75% attendance at lectures, tutorials and practical classes and 100% attendance at clinical placements and field visits.