SPECIAL NOTE:
Students are required to enrol concurrently inCAM515 and CAM516.
In order to commence workplace learning outside of the University of Tasmania (including clinical placements and visits) students are required to demonstrate compliance with the Faculty of Health Science and School of Medicine policies relevant to workplace based learning. These include the Police Check Policy and Procedures,
Infectious Disease Policy, Code of Conduct and Student Placement Agreement. Students who do not comply with these policies will not be placed or will be removed from placements and therefore will not be able to complete this unit. Students who have not complied or are unsure of the policies should seek guidance from the School.
OFFERINGS
Unit
Sem 1
Sem 2
Full Yr
Spring
Summer
Winter
CAM515
H
Key Semester Dates
Semester
Note
Start Date
Census Date
Final WW Date*
End Date
Sem 1
22-FEB-2010
23-MAR-2010
12-APR-2010
28-MAY-2010
*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).
This unit is integrated with the programme in the following year of the course. There will be clinical attachments in a range of specialties to encompass the areas of Women and Children's Health, Psychiatry, General Practice, Medical and Surgical Specialties. Overall objectives are organised by the themes of Human Health & Disease (HHD), Communication & Collaboration (C&C), Community Health & Disease (CHD), Personal & Professional Development (PPD) and Integration (INT).
Weekly integrated teaching sessions will cover key common problems in the Australian Health Sector, will be case-based, and will require self-directed learning approaches. Therapeutics teaching will include the web-based resource of the National Prescribing Service educational programme and there will be an emphasis on the rational use of investigative procedures and treatments.
On completion of CAM515 (HCS students), CAM512 (LCS students) or CAM513 (RCS students) students receive an XX (results shown in another unit) result. The final result for this unit is granted on completion of either CAM516 (HCS students), CAM512 (LCS students) or CAM514 (RCS students).
WEIGHT:
50%
ASSESSMENT:
Formative Assessment:
Portfolio of Learning
The formative components of the portfolio may vary across Clinical Schools. There are essential components of the portfolio which are common to all schools and become part of the summative assessment. During the year, students will be assessed on the components of their portfolios and will have an opportunity for formative assessment of OSCE stations. The exact nature of these formative assessment components will be determined by each clinical school and can be found in the Year 5 Handbook.
Summative Assessment:
All three clinical schools share a single summative assessment. This will consist of a written (MCQ/EMQ), clinical (OSCE) components, and portfolio assessment (see handbook for detailed criteria).
The essential components of the portfolio are:
1 . a log of skills, in which procedures seen and/or performed during the hospital and community placements are recorded;
2 . three Reflective Journal Pieces, written in a prescribed format of at least 1000 words in length that reflect the learning objectives of the themes Personal and Professional Development and Communication and Collaboration;
3 . an assessment for each clinical attachment signed off by the supervising consultant based on performance during the attachment including performance in written and clinical assessment tasks set by the discipline concerned during the attachment;
4 . at least 3 satisfactory Objective Structured Long Examination Records (OSLERs). Students are required to submit 6 satisfactory OSLERs by the end of 6th year, with a minimum of 3 to be completed in 5th year. It is a requirement that 4 OSLERs be from different disciplines with at least one each year to be assessed by Clinical School staff.
5 . Evidence of participation in CBL sessions.
*All elements of the portfolio must be submitted prior to the November MCQ/EMQ and OSCE summative assessment, or the candidate will be deemed to have failed the course.
Students are required to pass both the MCQ/EMQ and the OSCE and portfolio components of the assessment to pass overall. The result awarded for this unit is an ungraded pass (UP).
TEACHING PATTERN: Case-based class teaching;presentation of topics relating to key common problems; ward based and school-based small group tutorials for development of clinical skills, clinical attachments to hospital staff andgeneral practitioners.
FLEXIBLE & ONLINE STUDY OPTIONS Note: Class attendance may still be required
TEXTS Information about any textbook requirements for Semester (Sem 1) will be available from mid November 2009
STAFF: Coordinators: Assoc Prof JH Vial. Teaching by academic members of the clinical disciplines of the School of Medicine, consultants of the RHH and affiliated hospitals, general practitioners.
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. 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, J Indonesia, K KDU Malaysia, Q Kuwait or Z New Zealand.
Special approval is required for enrolment into TNE Program units - campuses A, F, G, J, K, Q and Z click here for more information.