Outline

Academic unit	Northern Clinical School
Credit points	8
Prerequisites ?	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 ?	None
Prohibitions ?	None
Assumed knowledge ?	None
Available to study abroad and exchange students	No

Coordinator	Anne Morris, anne.morris@sydney.edu.au

Type	Description	Weight	Due	Length
Participation	Class attendance n/a	0%	-	n/a
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Assignment	Structured written history n/a	0%	-	n/a
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Skills-based evaluation	OSCE Physical Exam Cardiology / Respiratory or Gastroenterological systems	33%	Formal exam period	24 minutes
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In-semester test (Record+)	Term F CAH In-term Clinical task paper/SBA online exam The SBA and CTP paper will be delivered as a single online assessment.	67%	Week 06 Due date: 13 Feb 2022 at 13:00	2 hours
Outcomes assessed:
In-semester test (Record+)	Term G CAH In-term Clinical task paper/SBA online exam The SBA and CTP paper will be delivered as a single online assessment.	0%	Week 12 Due date: 22 Apr 2022 at 13:00	2 hours
Outcomes assessed:
= hurdle task ? = Type B in-semester exam ? = Type B in-semester exam ?

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. Understanding of the therapeutic nature of the patient-doctor relationship and the impact on that relationship of the individual characteristics of both patient and doctor.
LO2. Ability to listen and to identify issues of concern to patients, families, and carers and to respond to those concerns, using whatever means are necessary for effective communication.
LO3. Ability to elicit and interpret clinical symptoms and signs by interviewing and examining patients systematically and with sensitivity, and to use this information to guide further investigations.
LO4. Ability to perform important clinical procedures.
LO5. Ethical behaviour in meeting the needs of patients and families - concern for confidentiality and respect for individual autonomy, enabling patients and their families to make informed decisions in relation to their medical care.
LO6. Understanding of the structure and function of most body systems (e.g., musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, respiratory).
LO7. Apply an understanding of normal and abnormal human structure, function and behaviour to the diagnosis, management, and prevention of health problems.
LO8. Ability to use the best available evidence on outcomes to prevent or cure disease, relieve symptoms, or minimise disability and analyse clinical data and published work to determine their validity and generality.
LO9. Participation in the generation, interpretation, application, and dissemination of significant advances in medical knowledge whilst recognising the limits of scientific knowledge and understanding.

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
Learning outcomes

Alignment with Competency standards

Outcomes	Competency standards
	Australian Medical Council's Graduate Outcome Statements - 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 1.5. Apply knowledge of common scientific methods to formulate relevant research questionsand select applicable study designs 1.6. Demonstrate a commitment to excellence, evidence based practice and the generation of new scientific knowledge 2.1. Demonstrate by listening, sharing and responding, the ability to communicate clearly, sensitively and effectively with patients, their family/carers, doctors and other health professionals 2.10. Integrate prevention, early detection, health maintenance and chronic condition management where relevant into clinical practice 2.11. Prescribe medications safely, effectively and economically using objective evidence. Safely administer other therapeutic agents including fluid, electrolytes, blood products and selected inhalational agents 2.12. Recognise and assess deteriorating and critically unwell patients who require immediate care. Perform common emergency and life support procedures, including caring for the unconscious patient and performing CPR 2.13. Describe the principles of care for patients at the end of their lives, avoiding unnecessary investigations or treatment, and ensuring physical comfort including pain relief, psychosocial support and other components of palliative care 2.14. Place the needs and sfety of patients at the centre of the care process. Demonstrate safety skills including infection control, graded assertiveness, adverse event reportng and effective clinical handover 2.15. Retrieve, interpret and record information effectively in clinical data systems (both paper and electronic) 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 2.3. Perform a full and accurate physical examination, including a mental state examination, or a problem-focused examination as indicated 2.4. Integrate and interpret findings from the history and examination, to arrive at an initial assessment including a relevant differential diagnosis. Discriminate between possible differential diagnoses, justify the decisions taken and describe the processes for evaluating these 2.5. Select and justfy common investigations, with regard to the pathological basis of disease, utility, safety and cost effectiveness, and interpret their results 2.6. Select and perform, safely a range of common procedural skills 2.7. Make clinical judgements and decisions based on the available evidence. Identify and justify relevant management options alone or in conjunction with colleagues, according to level of training and experience 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 2.9. Provide information to patients, and family/carers where relevant, to enable them to make a fully informed choice among various diagnostic, therapeutic and management options
	Australian Medical Council's Graduate Outcome Statements - 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 1.5. Apply knowledge of common scientific methods to formulate relevant research questionsand select applicable study designs 1.6. Demonstrate a commitment to excellence, evidence based practice and the generation of new scientific knowledge 2.1. Demonstrate by listening, sharing and responding, the ability to communicate clearly, sensitively and effectively with patients, their family/carers, doctors and other health professionals 2.10. Integrate prevention, early detection, health maintenance and chronic condition management where relevant into clinical practice 2.11. Prescribe medications safely, effectively and economically using objective evidence. Safely administer other therapeutic agents including fluid, electrolytes, blood products and selected inhalational agents 2.12. Recognise and assess deteriorating and critically unwell patients who require immediate care. Perform common emergency and life support procedures, including caring for the unconscious patient and performing CPR 2.13. Describe the principles of care for patients at the end of their lives, avoiding unnecessary investigations or treatment, and ensuring physical comfort including pain relief, psychosocial support and other components of palliative care 2.14. Place the needs and sfety of patients at the centre of the care process. Demonstrate safety skills including infection control, graded assertiveness, adverse event reportng and effective clinical handover 2.15. Retrieve, interpret and record information effectively in clinical data systems (both paper and electronic) 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 2.3. Perform a full and accurate physical examination, including a mental state examination, or a problem-focused examination as indicated 2.4. Integrate and interpret findings from the history and examination, to arrive at an initial assessment including a relevant differential diagnosis. Discriminate between possible differential diagnoses, justify the decisions taken and describe the processes for evaluating these 2.5. Select and justfy common investigations, with regard to the pathological basis of disease, utility, safety and cost effectiveness, and interpret their results 2.6. Select and perform, safely a range of common procedural skills 2.7. Make clinical judgements and decisions based on the available evidence. Identify and justify relevant management options alone or in conjunction with colleagues, according to level of training and experience 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 2.9. Provide information to patients, and family/carers where relevant, to enable them to make a fully informed choice among various diagnostic, therapeutic and management options
	Australian Medical Council's Graduate Outcome Statements - 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 1.5. Apply knowledge of common scientific methods to formulate relevant research questionsand select applicable study designs 1.6. Demonstrate a commitment to excellence, evidence based practice and the generation of new scientific knowledge 2.1. Demonstrate by listening, sharing and responding, the ability to communicate clearly, sensitively and effectively with patients, their family/carers, doctors and other health professionals 2.10. Integrate prevention, early detection, health maintenance and chronic condition management where relevant into clinical practice 2.11. Prescribe medications safely, effectively and economically using objective evidence. Safely administer other therapeutic agents including fluid, electrolytes, blood products and selected inhalational agents 2.12. Recognise and assess deteriorating and critically unwell patients who require immediate care. Perform common emergency and life support procedures, including caring for the unconscious patient and performing CPR 2.13. Describe the principles of care for patients at the end of their lives, avoiding unnecessary investigations or treatment, and ensuring physical comfort including pain relief, psychosocial support and other components of palliative care 2.14. Place the needs and sfety of patients at the centre of the care process. Demonstrate safety skills including infection control, graded assertiveness, adverse event reportng and effective clinical handover 2.15. Retrieve, interpret and record information effectively in clinical data systems (both paper and electronic) 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 2.3. Perform a full and accurate physical examination, including a mental state examination, or a problem-focused examination as indicated 2.4. Integrate and interpret findings from the history and examination, to arrive at an initial assessment including a relevant differential diagnosis. Discriminate between possible differential diagnoses, justify the decisions taken and describe the processes for evaluating these 2.5. Select and justfy common investigations, with regard to the pathological basis of disease, utility, safety and cost effectiveness, and interpret their results 2.6. Select and perform, safely a range of common procedural skills 2.7. Make clinical judgements and decisions based on the available evidence. Identify and justify relevant management options alone or in conjunction with colleagues, according to level of training and experience 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 2.9. Provide information to patients, and family/carers where relevant, to enable them to make a fully informed choice among various diagnostic, therapeutic and management options
	Australian Medical Council's Graduate Outcome Statements - 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 1.5. Apply knowledge of common scientific methods to formulate relevant research questionsand select applicable study designs 1.6. Demonstrate a commitment to excellence, evidence based practice and the generation of new scientific knowledge 2.1. Demonstrate by listening, sharing and responding, the ability to communicate clearly, sensitively and effectively with patients, their family/carers, doctors and other health professionals 2.10. Integrate prevention, early detection, health maintenance and chronic condition management where relevant into clinical practice 2.11. Prescribe medications safely, effectively and economically using objective evidence. Safely administer other therapeutic agents including fluid, electrolytes, blood products and selected inhalational agents 2.12. Recognise and assess deteriorating and critically unwell patients who require immediate care. Perform common emergency and life support procedures, including caring for the unconscious patient and performing CPR 2.13. Describe the principles of care for patients at the end of their lives, avoiding unnecessary investigations or treatment, and ensuring physical comfort including pain relief, psychosocial support and other components of palliative care 2.14. Place the needs and sfety of patients at the centre of the care process. Demonstrate safety skills including infection control, graded assertiveness, adverse event reportng and effective clinical handover 2.15. Retrieve, interpret and record information effectively in clinical data systems (both paper and electronic) 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 2.3. Perform a full and accurate physical examination, including a mental state examination, or a problem-focused examination as indicated 2.4. Integrate and interpret findings from the history and examination, to arrive at an initial assessment including a relevant differential diagnosis. Discriminate between possible differential diagnoses, justify the decisions taken and describe the processes for evaluating these 2.5. Select and justfy common investigations, with regard to the pathological basis of disease, utility, safety and cost effectiveness, and interpret their results 2.6. Select and perform, safely a range of common procedural skills 2.7. Make clinical judgements and decisions based on the available evidence. Identify and justify relevant management options alone or in conjunction with colleagues, according to level of training and experience 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 2.9. Provide information to patients, and family/carers where relevant, to enable them to make a fully informed choice among various diagnostic, therapeutic and management options
	Australian Medical Council's Graduate Outcome Statements - 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 1.5. Apply knowledge of common scientific methods to formulate relevant research questionsand select applicable study designs 1.6. Demonstrate a commitment to excellence, evidence based practice and the generation of new scientific knowledge 2.1. Demonstrate by listening, sharing and responding, the ability to communicate clearly, sensitively and effectively with patients, their family/carers, doctors and other health professionals 2.10. Integrate prevention, early detection, health maintenance and chronic condition management where relevant into clinical practice 2.11. Prescribe medications safely, effectively and economically using objective evidence. Safely administer other therapeutic agents including fluid, electrolytes, blood products and selected inhalational agents 2.12. Recognise and assess deteriorating and critically unwell patients who require immediate care. Perform common emergency and life support procedures, including caring for the unconscious patient and performing CPR 2.13. Describe the principles of care for patients at the end of their lives, avoiding unnecessary investigations or treatment, and ensuring physical comfort including pain relief, psychosocial support and other components of palliative care 2.14. Place the needs and sfety of patients at the centre of the care process. Demonstrate safety skills including infection control, graded assertiveness, adverse event reportng and effective clinical handover 2.15. Retrieve, interpret and record information effectively in clinical data systems (both paper and electronic) 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 2.3. Perform a full and accurate physical examination, including a mental state examination, or a problem-focused examination as indicated 2.4. Integrate and interpret findings from the history and examination, to arrive at an initial assessment including a relevant differential diagnosis. Discriminate between possible differential diagnoses, justify the decisions taken and describe the processes for evaluating these 2.5. Select and justfy common investigations, with regard to the pathological basis of disease, utility, safety and cost effectiveness, and interpret their results 2.6. Select and perform, safely a range of common procedural skills 2.7. Make clinical judgements and decisions based on the available evidence. Identify and justify relevant management options alone or in conjunction with colleagues, according to level of training and experience 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 2.9. Provide information to patients, and family/carers where relevant, to enable them to make a fully informed choice among various diagnostic, therapeutic and management options
	Australian Medical Council's Graduate Outcome Statements - 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 1.5. Apply knowledge of common scientific methods to formulate relevant research questionsand select applicable study designs 1.6. Demonstrate a commitment to excellence, evidence based practice and the generation of new scientific knowledge 2.1. Demonstrate by listening, sharing and responding, the ability to communicate clearly, sensitively and effectively with patients, their family/carers, doctors and other health professionals 2.10. Integrate prevention, early detection, health maintenance and chronic condition management where relevant into clinical practice 2.11. Prescribe medications safely, effectively and economically using objective evidence. Safely administer other therapeutic agents including fluid, electrolytes, blood products and selected inhalational agents 2.12. Recognise and assess deteriorating and critically unwell patients who require immediate care. Perform common emergency and life support procedures, including caring for the unconscious patient and performing CPR 2.13. Describe the principles of care for patients at the end of their lives, avoiding unnecessary investigations or treatment, and ensuring physical comfort including pain relief, psychosocial support and other components of palliative care 2.14. Place the needs and sfety of patients at the centre of the care process. Demonstrate safety skills including infection control, graded assertiveness, adverse event reportng and effective clinical handover 2.15. Retrieve, interpret and record information effectively in clinical data systems (both paper and electronic) 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 2.3. Perform a full and accurate physical examination, including a mental state examination, or a problem-focused examination as indicated 2.4. Integrate and interpret findings from the history and examination, to arrive at an initial assessment including a relevant differential diagnosis. Discriminate between possible differential diagnoses, justify the decisions taken and describe the processes for evaluating these 2.5. Select and justfy common investigations, with regard to the pathological basis of disease, utility, safety and cost effectiveness, and interpret their results 2.6. Select and perform, safely a range of common procedural skills 2.7. Make clinical judgements and decisions based on the available evidence. Identify and justify relevant management options alone or in conjunction with colleagues, according to level of training and experience 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 2.9. Provide information to patients, and family/carers where relevant, to enable them to make a fully informed choice among various diagnostic, therapeutic and management options
	Australian Medical Council's Graduate Outcome Statements - 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 1.5. Apply knowledge of common scientific methods to formulate relevant research questionsand select applicable study designs 1.6. Demonstrate a commitment to excellence, evidence based practice and the generation of new scientific knowledge 2.1. Demonstrate by listening, sharing and responding, the ability to communicate clearly, sensitively and effectively with patients, their family/carers, doctors and other health professionals 2.10. Integrate prevention, early detection, health maintenance and chronic condition management where relevant into clinical practice 2.11. Prescribe medications safely, effectively and economically using objective evidence. Safely administer other therapeutic agents including fluid, electrolytes, blood products and selected inhalational agents 2.12. Recognise and assess deteriorating and critically unwell patients who require immediate care. Perform common emergency and life support procedures, including caring for the unconscious patient and performing CPR 2.13. Describe the principles of care for patients at the end of their lives, avoiding unnecessary investigations or treatment, and ensuring physical comfort including pain relief, psychosocial support and other components of palliative care 2.14. Place the needs and sfety of patients at the centre of the care process. Demonstrate safety skills including infection control, graded assertiveness, adverse event reportng and effective clinical handover 2.15. Retrieve, interpret and record information effectively in clinical data systems (both paper and electronic) 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 2.3. Perform a full and accurate physical examination, including a mental state examination, or a problem-focused examination as indicated 2.4. Integrate and interpret findings from the history and examination, to arrive at an initial assessment including a relevant differential diagnosis. Discriminate between possible differential diagnoses, justify the decisions taken and describe the processes for evaluating these 2.5. Select and justfy common investigations, with regard to the pathological basis of disease, utility, safety and cost effectiveness, and interpret their results 2.6. Select and perform, safely a range of common procedural skills 2.7. Make clinical judgements and decisions based on the available evidence. Identify and justify relevant management options alone or in conjunction with colleagues, according to level of training and experience 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 2.9. Provide information to patients, and family/carers where relevant, to enable them to make a fully informed choice among various diagnostic, therapeutic and management options
	Australian Medical Council's Graduate Outcome Statements - 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 1.5. Apply knowledge of common scientific methods to formulate relevant research questionsand select applicable study designs 1.6. Demonstrate a commitment to excellence, evidence based practice and the generation of new scientific knowledge 2.1. Demonstrate by listening, sharing and responding, the ability to communicate clearly, sensitively and effectively with patients, their family/carers, doctors and other health professionals 2.10. Integrate prevention, early detection, health maintenance and chronic condition management where relevant into clinical practice 2.11. Prescribe medications safely, effectively and economically using objective evidence. Safely administer other therapeutic agents including fluid, electrolytes, blood products and selected inhalational agents 2.12. Recognise and assess deteriorating and critically unwell patients who require immediate care. Perform common emergency and life support procedures, including caring for the unconscious patient and performing CPR 2.13. Describe the principles of care for patients at the end of their lives, avoiding unnecessary investigations or treatment, and ensuring physical comfort including pain relief, psychosocial support and other components of palliative care 2.14. Place the needs and sfety of patients at the centre of the care process. Demonstrate safety skills including infection control, graded assertiveness, adverse event reportng and effective clinical handover 2.15. Retrieve, interpret and record information effectively in clinical data systems (both paper and electronic) 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 2.3. Perform a full and accurate physical examination, including a mental state examination, or a problem-focused examination as indicated 2.4. Integrate and interpret findings from the history and examination, to arrive at an initial assessment including a relevant differential diagnosis. Discriminate between possible differential diagnoses, justify the decisions taken and describe the processes for evaluating these 2.5. Select and justfy common investigations, with regard to the pathological basis of disease, utility, safety and cost effectiveness, and interpret their results 2.6. Select and perform, safely a range of common procedural skills 2.7. Make clinical judgements and decisions based on the available evidence. Identify and justify relevant management options alone or in conjunction with colleagues, according to level of training and experience 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 2.9. Provide information to patients, and family/carers where relevant, to enable them to make a fully informed choice among various diagnostic, therapeutic and management options
	Australian Medical Council's Graduate Outcome Statements - 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 1.5. Apply knowledge of common scientific methods to formulate relevant research questionsand select applicable study designs 1.6. Demonstrate a commitment to excellence, evidence based practice and the generation of new scientific knowledge 2.1. Demonstrate by listening, sharing and responding, the ability to communicate clearly, sensitively and effectively with patients, their family/carers, doctors and other health professionals 2.10. Integrate prevention, early detection, health maintenance and chronic condition management where relevant into clinical practice 2.11. Prescribe medications safely, effectively and economically using objective evidence. Safely administer other therapeutic agents including fluid, electrolytes, blood products and selected inhalational agents 2.12. Recognise and assess deteriorating and critically unwell patients who require immediate care. Perform common emergency and life support procedures, including caring for the unconscious patient and performing CPR 2.13. Describe the principles of care for patients at the end of their lives, avoiding unnecessary investigations or treatment, and ensuring physical comfort including pain relief, psychosocial support and other components of palliative care 2.14. Place the needs and sfety of patients at the centre of the care process. Demonstrate safety skills including infection control, graded assertiveness, adverse event reportng and effective clinical handover 2.15. Retrieve, interpret and record information effectively in clinical data systems (both paper and electronic) 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 2.3. Perform a full and accurate physical examination, including a mental state examination, or a problem-focused examination as indicated 2.4. Integrate and interpret findings from the history and examination, to arrive at an initial assessment including a relevant differential diagnosis. Discriminate between possible differential diagnoses, justify the decisions taken and describe the processes for evaluating these 2.5. Select and justfy common investigations, with regard to the pathological basis of disease, utility, safety and cost effectiveness, and interpret their results 2.6. Select and perform, safely a range of common procedural skills 2.7. Make clinical judgements and decisions based on the available evidence. Identify and justify relevant management options alone or in conjunction with colleagues, according to level of training and experience 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 2.9. Provide information to patients, and family/carers where relevant, to enable them to make a fully informed choice among various diagnostic, therapeutic and management options

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