GMED5009 (v.1) Medicine 8
| Area: | Curtin Medical School |
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| Credits: | 100.0 |
| Contact Hours: | 5.0 |
| TUITION PATTERNS: | The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline. |
| Lecture: | 11 x 2 Hours Semester |
| Practical: | 10 x 2 Hours Semester |
| Workshop: | 1 x 1 Hours Weekly |
| Fieldwork: | 1 x 7.5 Hours Semester |
| UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: | The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline. |
| Syllabus: | Medicine 7 and 8 are delivered as a continuum and build on the knowledge, skills and attitudes developed over the previous four years of the course in a series of work based clinical placements with an emphasis on pre-intern training to be fully work-ready on graduation. Students will develop a competent level of practise demonstrating skill development and an integrated body of knowledge derived from the physical, biological, behavioural and social sciences. Student will show empathy for patients and have recognition of their own limitations. The placements will enable students to integrate health promotion and disease prevention with the management of illness and injury as well as give consideration to patient safety and quality of care. It will enable students to practise with due regard to available resources and cost-effective measures in a manner which encourages patients to assume increasing responsibility for their own health and to participate in decisions about their health care. Students will recognise the need for lifelong learning in the practise of medicine and medical education including further training and medical research. |
| Field of Education: | 060101 General Medicine |
| Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
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