Attendance includes mandatory Clinical Placements

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material. Please note that textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.

Clinical Examination: A Systematic Guide to Physical Diagnosis

ISBN: 9780729539050

Talley, N.J. and O'Connor, S., Elsevier 6th ed. 2009

Text refers to: JMP Semester 1 , On Campus

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 abiliti 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 o fprinciples 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; and
29. demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of the centrality of family and kinship ties for Indigenous Australians in regard to health.