Pathways Experience A (MEDI6202A)

Student enrolment is semester based, MEDI6202A (Semester 1) and MEDI6102B (Semester 2), with the delivery of the academic content occurring across the full year. Pathways Experience is the Year 5 component of a student directed selective, chosen from a broad group of special topics, that are designed to finalise the extension of student capabilities beyond, and to greater depth than core threshold learning outcomes. In Year 5, the student will be following a negotiated learning plan around the chosen topic/specialty created during the Pathways to Medical Practice unit in Year 4. The areas to be chosen from are: Rural Health, Indigenous Health, Laboratory Medicine, Global Health, and Health Education.

In their chosen pathway, students, in conjunction with a mentor or mentors, will undertake an extended period of study that may include a clinical attachment, community placement, laboratory setting or other contexts appropriate to topics/specialties. For most students, the pathway will articulate with an identified career path or special interest. For some students it may be used to gain an insight, or to set themselves a challenge, in an area that they might ordinarily not contemplate, for example, an alternative or supplement to an envisaged career path such as neonatology for paediatrics, or Indigenous health as a component of global health.