Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

1. Act in a respectful and courteous manner towards patients, other students, staff, and members of the public.
2. Observe confidentiality and privacy requirements.
3. Obtain informed consent from patients and volunteer patients where necessary.
4. Participate in a constructive and cooperative manner within group learning activities and course activities.
5. Carry out the reasonable directions of teaching/supervisory staff.
6. Be punctual and meet the expected attendance requirements.
7. Demonstrate reflective practice and self-appraisal, including awareness of one’s own clinical competence and preparedness to act within that competence.
8. Demonstrate safe practice in accordance with available evidence and institutional policies.
9. Describe and explain the place of peer review in safe professional practice, agree upon specific assessment criteria for their year group and experience the impact of peer review and feedback on their professional development in a coherent learning experience.
10. Demonstrate behaviour that displays sensitivity to cultural diversity, gender, disability and illness, religious, sexual preference and/or racial differences and is in accordance with ethical and legal responsibilities.

Work Integrated Learning

Other

Students may engage with WIL partners (internal/external) as a component of the course

Indicative Assessment

1. Formal Peer review (Hurdle) (0) [LO 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,10]
2. Formal Clinical tutor appraisal (Hurdle) (0) [LO 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
3. Formal Peer review (Hurdle) (0) [LO 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,10]
4. Formal Clinical tutor appraisal (Hurdle) (0) [LO 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
5. Completion of Kuracloud lessons (Hurdle) (0) [LO 7,10]
6. No adverse findings from the SMP Professional Behaviours Committee (Hurdle) (100) [LO 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]

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Workload

This course must be enrolled in twice over two consecutive semesters.

As a co-requisite, zero unit course, the workload is covered in the co-requisite.

Inherent Requirements

Inherent requirements for the ANU Doctor of Medicine and Surgery are guided by the Medical Deans of Australia and New Zealand Inclusive Medical Education guidance note:

Professionalism

• Medical students will be expected to demonstrate capabilities consistent with those of a medical professional, including a commitment to making the care of patients their priority, and to practise safely and effectively, treat people with dignity and respect, and be aware of the limits of their own knowledge, skills and health. They will also be required to comply with the law, regulations and any other university codes or policies.

Insight into their own health and behaviour

• Medical students will be expected to demonstrate an ability to recognise when they experience poor health and put in place effective processes to ensure their own health or behaviours do not pose a risk to others.

Team work

• Medical students will be expected to work willingly and cohesively as part of a team, taking responsibility for their actions as well as recognising and respecting the skills of other professionals.

Requisite and Incompatibility

Prescribed Texts

N/A

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