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MEDI3018 Chronic Diseases and Sub Speciality: Clinical Practice 2

Updated: 03 September 2009
Credit Points 12
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study Online Level
Armidale JMP Semester 2 On Campus D - Comp/internet essential
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites MEDI1011 and MEDI1012 and MEDI1013 and MEDI1014 and MEDI1015 and MEDI2011 and MEDI2012 and MEDI2013 and MEDI2014 and MEDI3017
Co-requisites MEDI3014
Restrictions None
Notes

Attendance includes mandatory Clinical Placements

Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) To be advised
Unit Description

This unit provides clinical skills in Chronic Diseases and Sub-Specialities with consideration of the role of general practice, public health, palliative care, risk factor management, ethics, evidence-based medicine and access to health care.

Materials Text information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Disclaimer Offer of some subjects is subject to viability. Information in these unit descriptions is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.
Assessment
Title Exam Length Weight Mode No. Words
Assignments 60%
Assessment Notes
Essays/assignments
Final Examination 3 hrs 20%
Assessment Notes
OSCE
Final Examination 3 hrs 20%
Assessment Notes
Multiple Choice Questions

Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. Demonstrate the ability to take an accurate, organised and focused medical history for a range of Chronic and Lifestyle Diseases.
  2. Demonstrate the ability to appreciate and integrate questions regarding demographic, educational and psychological factors into the medical history, regardless of the presentation
  3. Demonstrate the ability to perform a systematic and confident physical examination of each system
  4. Demonstrate the ability to recognise common presentations in all fields of medicine and surgery
  5. Demonstrate the ability to interpret and integrate the history and physical examination findings to develop appropriate differential diagnoses
  6. Demonstrate the ability to select and use the most appropriate and cost effective diagnostic procedures, including an appreciation of principles of efficient and equitable resource allocation and use of finite resources
  7. Demonstrate the ability to formulate a management plan that integrates relevant factors affecting the physical and psychological wellbeing of patients (e.g. demographic, educational, psychological factors) along with management of their physical condition, and to plan management in conjunction with the patient
  8. Demonstrate the ability to communicate with patients and their families in a respectful, sensitive manner, which is also mindful of demographic and educational issues relevant to the family
  9. Demonstrate the ability to work effectively in a team with other health care professionals
  10. Demonstrate the ability to identify and critique research literature relevant to a person's presentation and apply this clinical evidence appropriately in therapeutic choices
  11. Demonstrate the ability to integrate relevant prevention and screening practices (including risk factor management) into the management plan of a patient
  12. Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of how to deal with diagnostic uncertainty often inherent in primary health care
  13. Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of interaction between humans and their social and physical environment, and ways in which these factors may impact on a person's clinical presentation, access to health care and ability to comply with a management plan
  14. Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of the effect of resource maldistribution in the delivery of health to a population, and how this may impact on prevention, risk factor management
  15. Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of the role of primary health care in Australia and internationally
  16. Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of epidemiology, public health issues, evidence-based medicine and risk factor management of common conditions seen in primary health care
  17. Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of principles of prevention and screening for common disease in primary health care including risk factor management and public health issues
  18. Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of the nature of chronic disease and need for a multidisciplinary input into care in chronic disease
  19. Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of the complexity of ethical issues related to illness
  20. Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of interventions at the individual level for common public health issues such as smoking, diet, alcohol and physical activity
  21. Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of mechanism of action of vaccines currently used in Australia and the programs to ensure high population coverage
  22. Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of healthy public policy in relation to alcohol use and abuse
  23. Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of epidemiology of respiratory epidemics and appropriate preventive measures
  24. Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of a capacity for appropriate inter-professional communication and behaviour with colleagues
  25. Demonstrate the ability to effectively and sensitively carry out a history and examination on Indigenous patients
  26. Demonstrate the ability to reflect how the history, social and cultural determinants of health might affect an Indigenous person's current health status
  27. Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of Indigenous Health challenges
  28. Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of key health indicators for Indigenous Australians and ways of redressing health inequity issues
  29. Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of the centrality of family and kinship ties for Indigenous Australians in regard to health

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1 Knowledge of a Discipline
Knowledge of the Discipline is embedded throughout
True True True
2 Communication Skills
BMed is a Problem Based Learning curriculum with communication skills at its core
True True True
4 Information Literacy
The nature of PBL embeds ITC skills throughout learning
True False True
5 Life-Long Learning
Included as an element of Professional Practice
False False True
6 Problem Solving
Curriculum design is PBL
True True True
7 Social Responsibility
Embedded in Clinical training
False False True
8 Team Work
Embedded in PBL curriculum design
True True True
   

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