Paediatrics & Child & Adolescent Health (MEDI4012)
Information valid for Semester 2, 2020
Course level
Undergraduate
Faculty
Units
3
Duration
One Semester
Delivery mode
Internal
Class hours
25 hours per week
Assessment methods
Clinical examinations; Consultant Assessment. To pass this course, students must pass a component entitled "Fitness to Practise" which includes Clinical Skills, Population Health, Ethics, Laboratory Medicine and Medical Imaging.
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Course description
The Paediatrics and Child and Adolescent Health rotation is based in a hospital within a Clinical School. It is an 8 week clinical rotation which integrates teaching across all related disciplines giving students exposure to Neonatology, Paediatric General Medicine, Surgery, Adolescent Medicine, Psychiatry, Radiology and the specialties of ENT, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Dermatology, Emergency Paediatrics and others. Students will be exposed to case discussions based on common paediatric problems.
