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Curriculum Development
The five-year course structure
Year 1
Year 1 |
Semester
1
13 weeks |
Transition to University
- Personal development
- Self care
- Health enhancement program
- Ethics and law in society
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Health, Knowledge and Society
- Disability
- Position
- Ethnicity, health and illness
- Access to health & healthcare
- HIV/AIDS
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The Fabric of Life:
- Molecular and cellular defence
- Genes and molecules
- Cells and tissues
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- Communication skills
- Basic life support
- Injections
- Teamwork project
- Aseptic technique
- Site visits: GP, chronic care, emergency and specialist
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| PCL Activities (3 hours per week) |
Semester
2
13 weeks |
- Health enhancement program
- Ethics in action
- Introduction to Law
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- Population Health: Research design and statistics
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- Musculoskeletal
- Neuroscience
- Behaviour
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- Review of aseptic technique
- Focused history taking and examination in neurological, musculoskeletal and mental state cases
- Site visits: GP, neurological rehabilitation, geriatric facility and sports injury
- MUCAPS
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| PCL Activities (3 hours per week) |
| Electives (2 hours per week) |
| Rural attachment (1 week) |
Year 2
Year
2 |
Semester 3
14 weeks |
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- Health promotion: program planning phase
- Knowledge management
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Homeostasis:
- Cardiovascular
- Haematology
- Respiratory
- Renal
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- History taking and examination of the cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, haematopoietic systems
- Site visits to GPs
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| PCL activities (3 hours per week) |
| Rural attachment/Urban cohort (50%/50%) (2 weeks) |
Semester 4
14 weeks |
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- Health promotion:
program implementation phase
- Knowledge management
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- Hormones and sex
- Nutrition and growth
- Gastroenterology
- Human lifespan development
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- History taking and examination of the sexual and reproductive, gastrointestinal, liver systems
- Introduction to therapeutics and management
- Site visits to maternal health centre
- Clinical reasoning
- Paediatrics
- Imaging
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| PCL activities (3 hours per week) |
| Electives (2 hours per week) |
| Rural attachment/Urban cohort (50%/50%) (2 weeks) |
Year 3
Year 3 |
Semester 5
16 weeks
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- Preventive medicine
- Quality improvement
- Health economics
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- Multi-system disease
- Degenerative diseases
- Modified lifestyle diseases
- Infectious diseases
- Neuro-pathophysiology
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- Pathophysiology
- Laboratory skills
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- Personal development
- Patient advocacy
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- Integrated medicine and surgery
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- Skills in medicine and surgery
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Semester 6
16 weeks |
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- Preventive medicine
- Quality improvement
- Health economics
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- Multi-system disease
- Degenerative diseases
- Modified lifestyle diseases
- Infectious diseases
- Neuro-pathophysiology
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- Pathophysiology
- Laboratory skills
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- Personal development
- Patient advocacy
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- Integrated medicine and surgery
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- Skills in medicine and surgery
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Year 4
Year 4 |
Semester 7
18 weeks |
- Team Participation
- Professional Judgement
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- Evidence base for specialties
- Health economics
- Proactive use of technology
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- Women's and children's health
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- Skills in women's and children's health
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Semester 8
18 weeks |
- Professional Practice
- Leadership
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- Politics of health
- Public health
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- General practice and psychiatry
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- Skills in general practice and psychiatry
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Year 5
| Year 5 |
Semester 9
18 weeks |
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- Selectives and electives
- Medical informatics in practice
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Semester 10
18 weeks |
- Personal learning
- Self appraisal
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- Public health selective
- Medical informatics in practice
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