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MEDI2013 Professional Practice 3

Credit Points 12
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale JMP Semester 2 On Campus
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 MED1015
Co-requisites None
Restrictions None
Notes None
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Suha Tazami (stazami@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

Continues from MEDI1014 and MEDI2011, ensuring that students further develop the skills and knowledge required to deal with patients who have problems of the neurological, psychiatric and endocrine systems.
Materials Textbook information will be displayed approximately 8 weeks prior to the commencement of the teaching period. Please note that textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment Assessment information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. demonstrate the ability to communicate appropriately with patients, health professionals and the public;
  2. demonstrate an appropriate professional attitude as a medical student, recognising that the primary professional responsibility is to the health interest of the patient;
  3. demonstrate the skills required for taking a limited, problem-focussed, structured medical history in relation to the nervous and endocrine systems;
  4. perform an accurate, limited physical examination of the nervous and endocrine systems;
  5. describe and evaluate relevant common diagnostic procedures of the nervous and endocrine systems;
  6. participate in common procedures that are appropriate, and practical forms of treatment in relation to the nervous and endocrine systems;
  7. recognise key features of the history and communicate these to other health care professionals;
  8. distinguish and apply relevant ethical principles and basic legal responsibilities in the areas of nervous and endocrine medicine;
  9. demonstrate initial understanding of the management of common conditions of the nervous and endocrine systems including the use of appropriate pharmacological, physical, nutritional, psychological and unorthodox therapies;
  10. demonstrate understanding of the principles of epidemiology and public health as applied to problems of the nervous and endocrine systems;
  11. know how to interact safely with patients and professionals in the health care system, with due regard for hospital and system safety and OH&S standards;
  12. understand the role that community organisations can play in contributing to the health care systems in NSW.

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 True
5 Life-Long Learning
Included as an element of Professional Practice and includes Medical Science 		True True
6 Problem Solving
Curriculum design is PBL 		True True True
7 Social Responsibility
Embedded in Clinical training 		True True True
8 Team Work
Embedded in PBL curriculum design 		True True True
   

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