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Consists of five components, Rural Health, Paediatrics and Child Health, Psychiatry, General Practice and Obstetrics and Gynaecology with a combined weight of 10%.
A - Rural Health. Provides students with a primary health care experience in a rural community. The rural health attachment involves a two-week placement at a Rural Health Teaching Site. Students work as a small group to carry out a community based health related mini research project. Students also have the opportunity to spend time with GPs, community nurses and other health professionals.
B - General Practice. Provides an introduction to general practice with an emphasis on developing consultation and communication skills. A combination of sessions with Hobart GPs and classroom based reflective and experiential learning will be used.
C - Paediatrics. Provides an understanding of normal and abnormal growth and development of children; an understanding of and a clinical approach to children and adolescents; teaches communication and history taking skills and how to conduct the physical examination and developmental screening of children; introduces the common conditions of paediatrics and child health and the prevention of disease and disability in childhood; studying the influence of family and social factors on child health; providing a knowledge of the services available for the support of children and adolescents. The unit continues the ‘Kids and Families’ program.
D - Psychiatry. Teaches students to recognise psychiatric phenomena and syndromes; alerting them to the relevance of emotional processes to the practice of medicine; teaching the biological and psychological foundations of psychiatry; enabling students to appreciate the extent of psychiatric phenomena, both in the study of psychiatry and in other clinical disciplines.
E - Obstetrics & Gynaecology. Introduces students to: gynaecological history taking, and examination; obstetric history taking and examination; the physiological and pathological bases of common gynaecological and obstetric problems; current controversies, including place of birth, abortion, hysterectomy and sterilisation.
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