SPECIAL NOTE:
The TSoM Medical Graduate Profile (MGP) defines the outcomes expected of students on completion of the new MBBS curriculum. The curriculum has 5 themes as an organising principle under which the outcomes are grouped. The 5 themes are: 1. Human Health and Disease; 2. Communication and Collaboration; 3. Community Health and Disease; 4. Personal and Professional Development; 5. Integration.
OFFERINGS
Unit
Sem 1
Sem 2
Full Yr
Spring
Summer
Winter
CAM101
H
Key Semester Dates
Semester
Campus
Attendance
Note
Start Date
Census Date
Final WW Date*
End Date
Sem 1
H
On Campus
27-FEB-2012
23-MAR-2012
16-APR-2012
01-JUN-2012
*The Final WW Date is the final date from which you can withdraw from the unit without academic penalty, however you will still incur a financial liability (see
Withdrawal dates explained for more information).
DESCRIPTION This foundations unit aims to give students an organisational framework upon which to base their undergraduate medical studies. This framework will encompass the structural and functional organisation of the body, the skills needed to engage in an active learning environment and an understanding of the role that a medical practitioner plays in the Australian Health Care System and the wider Australian community. Overall this introductory unit has been designed to engage and stimulate whilst giving the appropriate support needed to move from a year 12 educational environment to University learning.This unit will encompass weekly cases focusing on basic,normal and abnormal structure and function of the human body.
Students are required to demonstrate compliance with the Faculty of Health Science and School of Medicine Policies relevant to learning in the workplace, including the Police Check Policy, Infectious Disease Policy and Code of Conduct in order to undertake workplace learning in the clinical rotations. Students who have not complied with these policies will not be placed and will not be able to undertake clinical rotations or placements and therefore will not be able to complete some units of the course.
WEIGHT:
50%
ASSESSMENT: Summative Assessment
Written Exam 1 Theme 1
Written Exam 2 Themes 2-4
Applied Exam
Summative combined MCQ/SAQ Exam to be conductedwithin mid-semester
Information Literacy assessment
Objective Structure Clinical Examination (OSCE)
Portfolio.
Formative Assessment
Formative Written Exam
Formative Practical Exam
Multiple Choice Quizzes
TEACHING PATTERN: The unit is organised around weekly cases. This course consists of lectures, facilitated small group learning sessions (case-based), practicals and tutorials each week.
FLEXIBLE & ONLINE STUDY OPTIONS Note: Class attendance may still be required
Web supported -
H
Online access to some part of this unit online is optional
Resource supported teaching & learning -
H
Additional resources are provided for your optional use; e.g. audio taped lectures
About Flexible Study Options
REQUISITE INFO
Prereq
Year 12, English Communications (ENC315109 or equivalent) or, Year 12, English Studies (ENS315109 or equivalent) or, Year 12, English Writing (ENW315109 or equivalent) and Year 12, Chemistry (CHM315109 or equivalent)
STAFF: Dr D Assenheimer and Dr Anne-Marie Williams(Co-ordinators). Other teaching staff for this unit are listed in the timetables in the CAM101 Student Handbook
Units are offered in attending mode unless otherwise indicated (that is attendance is required at the campus identified). A unit identified as offered by distance, that is there is no requirement for attendance, is identified with a nominal enrolment campus. A unit offered to both attending students and by distance from the same campus is identified as having both modes of study.
Campus - H Hobart, L Launceston, W Burnie. Study Centre - V Sydney, R Rozelle, P Beauty Point. Distance units may also have a campus identifier of I Isolated, N Interstate, O Overseas. Units delivered in Transnational Education (TNE) Programs have a campus identifier of A Hangzhou, F Fuzhou, G Shanghai, K KDU Malaysia, Q Kuwait or Y Hong Kong.
Special approval is required for enrolment into TNE Program units - campuses A, F, G, K, Q and Y click here for more information.
Web supported -
H
