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MD Discovery 1: Foundation (MEDS90039)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Overview
Availability | Semester 1 (Extended) April April March April |
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This subject is the first in a series of four MD Discovery subjects embedded within the Doctor of Medicine course. Students will engage in 87.5 credit points of discovery-based learning in areas of interest across their course. Discovery learning allows medical students to engage in flexible, personalised and increasingly complex situational learning as they progress, providing opportunities to reflect on the professional practice of medicine in a variety of contexts and settings.
Every medical practitioner has areas in which they have a particular interest, both within medicine and more broadly. Discovery learning allows medical students to explore in greater depth an area of interest within which they would like to develop expertise, enhancing their professional practice and life experience.
Discovery learning in the first year of the Doctor of Medicine provides students with opportunities to engage with and explore their chosen area of interest at a foundational level. Learning Advisors support students in selecting their discovery pathway from a curated range of options, including complete subjects that may be substituted as well as smaller modules. The Learning Advisors will also ensure that any option or combination will meet the subject learning outcomes. Each of the options will also align with the overarching Doctor of Medicine Course Intended Learning Outcomes and are designed to enhance the student’s personal and professional growth. Students with limited prior learning in the enabling biosciences will be encouraged to choose options that address these areas, based on a learning needs analysis, although their choices will remain broad.
This subject, “MD Discovery 1: Foundation” may be taken as a stand-alone learning experience or as part of a vertical thread throughout the course.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should:
As a Scientist and Scholar:
- Develop a critical understanding of the relevant theory and knowledge that underpin the nominated area of interest.
As a Medical Practitioner:
- Relate their chosen topics to the medical practitioner's role, including patient assessment, clinical reasoning and partnership with patients.
As a Health Advocate:
- Draw on their learning to reflect on the role of the of the medical practitioner as a health advocate.
As a Professional and Leader:
- Effectively communicate the relationship between Discovery learning and future professional practice.
Generic skills
Students completing MD Discovery subjects will display skills in:
- Choosing educational pathways that best prepare them for professional practice
- Analysing the content of a wide variety of educational options and integrating it to their professional development
- Managing their time and clinical responsibilities in order to meet the requirements of these subjects
- Understanding health as broader concept beyond the individual clinical interaction, including, community, national and global aspects.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Corequisites
Non-allowed subjects
Recommended background knowledge
Course advice about Discovery subject selection will be based on students’ past experiences and knowledge.
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
Please see the Doctor of Medicine (MD) core participation requirements.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Oral presentation or equivalent (10 minutes by individual, 15 minutes by pair or 20 mins by three-person group)
| First half of the teaching period | N/A |
Written assignment/s or equivalent (max 3000 words equivalent)
| Second half of the teaching period | N/A |
ePortfolio reflective piece
| During the assessment period | N/A |
Professional behaviour Hurdle requirement: Must maintain a satisfactory standard in professional behaviour, as demonstrated by observed Professional Behaviour Assessment. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Attendance Hurdle requirement: 100% attendance at any synchronous or face to face teaching sessions, clinical placements and supervisor meetings or similar. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1 (Extended)
Principal coordinator Cate Scarff Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours This availability relates to the 'Foundations of Point of Care Ultrasound' topic Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 21 June 2024 Last self-enrol date 25 February 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 28 June 2024 - April
Principal coordinator Cate Scarff Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours This availability relates to the following topics: 'Death and Dying: Lifting the Lid', 'Sexual Health Across Clinical Contexts' & ' Discover Cancer' Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 15 April 2024 to 2 August 2024 Last self-enrol date 7 May 2024 Census date 10 May 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 July 2024 Assessment period ends 9 August 2024 - April
Principal coordinator Cate Scarff Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours This availability relates to the 'Teaching and Learning in Medical Education' topic Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 15 April 2024 to 9 August 2024 Last self-enrol date 14 April 2024 Census date 10 May 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 July 2024 Assessment period ends 16 August 2024 - March
Principal coordinator Cate Scarff Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours This availability relates to the following topics: 'Human Health in the Space Environment' & 'Foundations in Translational Clinical Medicine' Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 4 March 2024 to 4 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 3 March 2024 Census date 19 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 26 July 2024 Assessment period ends 11 October 2024 - April
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours This availability relates to the 'Rural Health - Foundations' topic Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 15 April 2024 to 20 September 2024 Last self-enrol date 14 April 2024 Census date 24 May 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 2 August 2024 Assessment period ends 4 October 2024
What do these dates mean
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- Your tuition fees, academic transcript and statements.
- And for Commonwealth Supported students, your:
- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
Last updated: 31 January 2024