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MDMP5318: Population Medicine 7

Semester 1, 2023 [Normal day] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney

In Stage 3, students will apply their understanding of the principles of population medicine acquired in Stages 1 and 2 to their clinical practice through interactions with patients. The program will allow them to consider the experiences of their patients in the broader context of their lives and their communities. Students will be able to describe how an understanding of population medicine fosters patient­centered care and better management outcomes, especially in the context of chronic disease

Unit details and rules

Academic unit Northern Clinical School
Credit points 2
Prerequisites
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MDMP5111 and MDMP5112 and MDMP5113 and MDMP5114 and MDMP5122 and MDMP5123 and MDMP5124 and MDMP5125 and MDMP5126 and MDMP5211 and MDMP5212 and MDMP5213 and MDMP5214 and MDMP5221 and MDMP5222 and MDMP5223 and MDMP5224 and MDMP5225
Corequisites
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None
Prohibitions
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None
Assumed knowledge
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None

Available to study abroad and exchange students

No

Teaching staff

Coordinator Christopher Harrison, christopher.harrison@sydney.edu.au
Type Description Weight Due Length
Online task hurdle task Required reading quiz
Short quiz based on the pre-reading for the tutorial
0% Multiple weeks n/a
Outcomes assessed: LO1 LO4 LO3 LO2
Participation hurdle task Tutorial attendance and participation
preparation, attendance and active participation
0% Multiple weeks 1.5 hours each x 4 tutorials
Outcomes assessed: LO1 LO4 LO3 LO2
Assignment hurdle task Prep activities
For use in tutorial discussions and display evidence of learning
0% Multiple weeks n/a
Outcomes assessed: LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4
hurdle task = hurdle task ?

Assessment summary

Please see the unit’s Canvas site for full assessment information

Assessment criteria

Grades allocated for this unit of study will be pass or fail (satisfied requirements or not) as defined in Schedule 1 of the Coursework Policy 2014.

For more information see guide to grades.

Late submission

In accordance with University policy, these penalties apply when written work is submitted after 11:59pm on the due date:

  • Deduction of 5% of the maximum mark for each calendar day after the due date.
  • After ten calendar days late, a mark of zero will be awarded.

Academic integrity

The Current Student website provides information on academic integrity and the resources available to all students. The University expects students and staff to act ethically and honestly and will treat all allegations of academic integrity breaches seriously.

We use similarity detection software to detect potential instances of plagiarism or other forms of academic integrity breach. If such matches indicate evidence of plagiarism or other forms of academic integrity breaches, your teacher is required to report your work for further investigation.

Use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and automated writing tools

You may only use generative AI and automated writing tools in assessment tasks if you are permitted to by your unit coordinator. If you do use these tools, you must acknowledge this in your work, either in a footnote or an acknowledgement section. The assessment instructions or unit outline will give guidance of the types of tools that are permitted and how the tools should be used.

Your final submitted work must be your own, original work. You must acknowledge any use of generative AI tools that have been used in the assessment, and any material that forms part of your submission must be appropriately referenced. For guidance on how to acknowledge the use of AI, please refer to the AI in Education Canvas site.

The unapproved use of these tools or unacknowledged use will be considered a breach of the Academic Integrity Policy and penalties may apply.

Studiosity is permitted unless otherwise indicated by the unit coordinator. The use of this service must be acknowledged in your submission as detailed on the Learning Hub’s Canvas page.

Outside assessment tasks, generative AI tools may be used to support your learning. The AI in Education Canvas site contains a number of productive ways that students are using AI to improve their learning.

Simple extensions

If you encounter a problem submitting your work on time, you may be able to apply for an extension of five calendar days through a simple extension.  The application process will be different depending on the type of assessment and extensions cannot be granted for some assessment types like exams.

Special consideration

If exceptional circumstances mean you can’t complete an assessment, you need consideration for a longer period of time, or if you have essential commitments which impact your performance in an assessment, you may be eligible for special consideration or special arrangements.

Special consideration applications will not be affected by a simple extension application.

Using AI responsibly

Co-created with students, AI in Education includes lots of helpful examples of how students use generative AI tools to support their learning. It explains how generative AI works, the different tools available and how to use them responsibly and productively.

WK Topic Learning activity Learning outcomes
Multiple weeks Social context of health, Risk and prevention, Cost of care, Advocacy. Tutorial (1.5 hr) LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4

Attendance and class requirements

  • Attendance: There are 4 face-to-face tutorials. Tutorials are arranged by Concord clinical school. Attendance at these tutorials is compulsory as per the Sydney Medical School Attendance Policy. Tutorial attendance contributes a maximum of 20 marks to the final mark.

Study commitment

Typically, there is a minimum expectation of 1.5-2 hours of student effort per week per credit point for units of study offered over a full semester. For a 2 credit point unit, this equates to roughly 40-50 hours of student effort in total.

Required readings

All readings for this unit can be accessed through the Library Reading List (Leganto), available on Canvas.

Learning outcomes are what students know, understand and are able to do on completion of a unit of study. They are aligned with the University's graduate qualities and are assessed as part of the curriculum.

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. Evaluate the distribution of and risk factors for disease and injury and understand how to use disease and injury prevention practices in the care of individual patients and communities.
  • LO2. Make evidence-based, ethical and economically responsible decisions about the most appropriate management of health problems in individuals and in communities.
  • LO3. Identify the economic, psychological, occupational and socio-cultural factors that contribute to the development and/or continuation of poor health and explain how it impacts on individuals and communities.
  • LO4. Evaluate the economic, political, social and legal factors which determine the way that individuals and communities respond to health problems and describe how public and population health strategies are systematically planned and implemented.

Graduate qualities

The graduate qualities are the qualities and skills that all University of Sydney graduates must demonstrate on successful completion of an award course. As a future Sydney graduate, the set of qualities have been designed to equip you for the contemporary world.

GQ1 Depth of disciplinary expertise

Deep disciplinary expertise is the ability to integrate and rigorously apply knowledge, understanding and skills of a recognised discipline defined by scholarly activity, as well as familiarity with evolving practice of the discipline.

GQ2 Critical thinking and problem solving

Critical thinking and problem solving are the questioning of ideas, evidence and assumptions in order to propose and evaluate hypotheses or alternative arguments before formulating a conclusion or a solution to an identified problem.

GQ3 Oral and written communication

Effective communication, in both oral and written form, is the clear exchange of meaning in a manner that is appropriate to audience and context.

GQ4 Information and digital literacy

Information and digital literacy is the ability to locate, interpret, evaluate, manage, adapt, integrate, create and convey information using appropriate resources, tools and strategies.

GQ5 Inventiveness

Generating novel ideas and solutions.

GQ6 Cultural competence

Cultural Competence is the ability to actively, ethically, respectfully, and successfully engage across and between cultures. In the Australian context, this includes and celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, knowledge systems, and a mature understanding of contemporary issues.

GQ7 Interdisciplinary effectiveness

Interdisciplinary effectiveness is the integration and synthesis of multiple viewpoints and practices, working effectively across disciplinary boundaries.

GQ8 Integrated professional, ethical, and personal identity

An integrated professional, ethical and personal identity is understanding the interaction between one’s personal and professional selves in an ethical context.

GQ9 Influence

Engaging others in a process, idea or vision.

Outcome map

Learning outcomes Graduate qualities
GQ1 GQ2 GQ3 GQ4 GQ5 GQ6 GQ7 GQ8 GQ9

Alignment with Competency standards

Outcomes Competency standards
LO1
Australian Medical Council's Graduate Outcome Statements - AMC
1. Domain 1- Science and Scholarship: the medical graduate as a scientist and scholar. On entry to professional practice, Australian and New Zealand graduates are able to:
1.1. Demonstrate an understanding of established and evolving biological, clinical, epidemiological, social, and behavioural sciences
1.2. Apply core medical and scientific knowledge to individual patients, populations and heath systems
1.6. Demonstrate a commitment to excellence, evidence based practice and the generation of new scientific knowledge
2. Domain 2- Clinical Practice: the medical graduate as practicioner. On entry to professional practice, Australian and New Zealand graduates are able to:
2.2. Elicit an accurate, organised and problem-focussed medical history, including family and social occupational and lifestyle features, from the patient, and other sources
3. Domain 3- Health and Society: the medical graduate as a health advocate On entry to professional practice, Australian and New Zealand graduates are able to:
3.1. Accept responsibility to protect and advance the health and wellbeing of individuals, communities and populations
3.2. Explain factors that contribute to the health, illness, disease and success of treatment of populations, including issues relating to health inequities and inequalities, diversity of cultural, spiritual and community values, and socio-economic and physical environment factors
3.3. Communicate effectively in wider roles including health advocacy, teaching, assessing and appraising
3.4. Understand and describe the factors that contribute to the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and/or Maori, including history, spirituality and relationship to land, diversity of cultures and communities, epidemiology, social and political determinants of heath and heath experiences. Demonstrate effective and culturally competent communication and care for Aborginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and/or Maori
3.9. Demonstrate an understanding of global health issues and determinants of health and disease including their relevance to health care delivery in Australia and New Zelanad and the broader Western Pacific region
4.2. Demonstrate professional values including commitment to high quality clinical standards, compassion, empathy and respect for all patients. Demonstrate the qualities of integrity, honesty, leadership and partnership to patients, the profession and society.
4.7. Demonstrate awareness of and explain the options avaialble when personal values or beliefs may influence patient care, including the obligation to refer to another practitioner
LO2
Australian Medical Council's Graduate Outcome Statements - AMC
1.1. Demonstrate an understanding of established and evolving biological, clinical, epidemiological, social, and behavioural sciences
1.2. Apply core medical and scientific knowledge to individual patients, populations and heath systems
1.4. Access, critically appraise, interpret and apply evidence from the medical and scientific literature
1.6. Demonstrate a commitment to excellence, evidence based practice and the generation of new scientific knowledge
2.5. Select and justfy common investigations, with regard to the pathological basis of disease, utility, safety and cost effectiveness, and interpret their results
2.8. Elicit patients' questions and their views, concerns and preferences, promote rapport, and ensure patients' full understanding of their problem(s). Involve patients in decision-making and planning their treatment, including communicating risk and benefits of management options
3. Domain 3- Health and Society: the medical graduate as a health advocate On entry to professional practice, Australian and New Zealand graduates are able to:
3.2. Explain factors that contribute to the health, illness, disease and success of treatment of populations, including issues relating to health inequities and inequalities, diversity of cultural, spiritual and community values, and socio-economic and physical environment factors
3.4. Understand and describe the factors that contribute to the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and/or Maori, including history, spirituality and relationship to land, diversity of cultures and communities, epidemiology, social and political determinants of heath and heath experiences. Demonstrate effective and culturally competent communication and care for Aborginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and/or Maori
3.5. Explain and evaluate common population heath screening and prevention approaches, including the use of technology for surveillance and monitoring of the health status of populations. Explain environmental and lifestyle health risks and advocate for healthy lifestyle choices
3.6. Describe a systems approach to improving the quality and safety of health care
3.7. Understand and describe the roles and relationships between health agencies and services, and explain the principles of efficient and eqitable allocaiton of finite resources, to meet individual community and national health needs
3.8. Describe the attributes of the national systems of health care including those that pertain to the health care of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and/or Maori
3.9. Demonstrate an understanding of global health issues and determinants of health and disease including their relevance to health care delivery in Australia and New Zelanad and the broader Western Pacific region
LO3
Australian Medical Council's Graduate Outcome Statements - AMC
1.1. Demonstrate an understanding of established and evolving biological, clinical, epidemiological, social, and behavioural sciences
1.2. Apply core medical and scientific knowledge to individual patients, populations and heath systems
1.3. Describe the aetiology, pathology, clinical features, natural history and prognosis of common and important presentations at all stages of life
1.4. Access, critically appraise, interpret and apply evidence from the medical and scientific literature
2.5. Select and justfy common investigations, with regard to the pathological basis of disease, utility, safety and cost effectiveness, and interpret their results
3. Domain 3- Health and Society: the medical graduate as a health advocate On entry to professional practice, Australian and New Zealand graduates are able to:
3.1. Accept responsibility to protect and advance the health and wellbeing of individuals, communities and populations
3.2. Explain factors that contribute to the health, illness, disease and success of treatment of populations, including issues relating to health inequities and inequalities, diversity of cultural, spiritual and community values, and socio-economic and physical environment factors
3.4. Understand and describe the factors that contribute to the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and/or Maori, including history, spirituality and relationship to land, diversity of cultures and communities, epidemiology, social and political determinants of heath and heath experiences. Demonstrate effective and culturally competent communication and care for Aborginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and/or Maori
3.5. Explain and evaluate common population heath screening and prevention approaches, including the use of technology for surveillance and monitoring of the health status of populations. Explain environmental and lifestyle health risks and advocate for healthy lifestyle choices
3.6. Describe a systems approach to improving the quality and safety of health care
3.7. Understand and describe the roles and relationships between health agencies and services, and explain the principles of efficient and eqitable allocaiton of finite resources, to meet individual community and national health needs
3.8. Describe the attributes of the national systems of health care including those that pertain to the health care of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and/or Maori
3.9. Demonstrate an understanding of global health issues and determinants of health and disease including their relevance to health care delivery in Australia and New Zelanad and the broader Western Pacific region
LO4
Australian Medical Council's Graduate Outcome Statements - AMC
1.1. Demonstrate an understanding of established and evolving biological, clinical, epidemiological, social, and behavioural sciences
1.2. Apply core medical and scientific knowledge to individual patients, populations and heath systems
1.3. Describe the aetiology, pathology, clinical features, natural history and prognosis of common and important presentations at all stages of life
1.4. Access, critically appraise, interpret and apply evidence from the medical and scientific literature
2.5. Select and justfy common investigations, with regard to the pathological basis of disease, utility, safety and cost effectiveness, and interpret their results
3. Domain 3- Health and Society: the medical graduate as a health advocate On entry to professional practice, Australian and New Zealand graduates are able to:
3.1. Accept responsibility to protect and advance the health and wellbeing of individuals, communities and populations
3.2. Explain factors that contribute to the health, illness, disease and success of treatment of populations, including issues relating to health inequities and inequalities, diversity of cultural, spiritual and community values, and socio-economic and physical environment factors
3.3. Communicate effectively in wider roles including health advocacy, teaching, assessing and appraising
3.4. Understand and describe the factors that contribute to the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and/or Maori, including history, spirituality and relationship to land, diversity of cultures and communities, epidemiology, social and political determinants of heath and heath experiences. Demonstrate effective and culturally competent communication and care for Aborginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and/or Maori
3.5. Explain and evaluate common population heath screening and prevention approaches, including the use of technology for surveillance and monitoring of the health status of populations. Explain environmental and lifestyle health risks and advocate for healthy lifestyle choices
3.6. Describe a systems approach to improving the quality and safety of health care
3.7. Understand and describe the roles and relationships between health agencies and services, and explain the principles of efficient and eqitable allocaiton of finite resources, to meet individual community and national health needs
3.8. Describe the attributes of the national systems of health care including those that pertain to the health care of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and/or Maori
3.9. Demonstrate an understanding of global health issues and determinants of health and disease including their relevance to health care delivery in Australia and New Zelanad and the broader Western Pacific region
4.2. Demonstrate professional values including commitment to high quality clinical standards, compassion, empathy and respect for all patients. Demonstrate the qualities of integrity, honesty, leadership and partnership to patients, the profession and society.

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