Course overview
This work-ready program aims to equip students for internship through mixture of didactic lectures, interactive small group workshops, simulation sessions, online modules as well as completion of assignments and e-portfolio tasks. One whole day per week during internship semester is devoted to the program. Assignments include a cultural awareness guided case study reflection, review of a coroner's case, teaching skills and simulation-based assessment tasks. Students are also required to complete modules from the National Prescribing Curriculum and an Essential Competencies Portfolio.
Course learning outcomes
- Competently perform all skills/procedures in the Essential Competencies Portfolio
- Perform immediate assessment and management of acute and common presentations of illness (Including emergency management)
- Prescribe common medications
- Describe how and when to obtain assistance with managing patients
- Describe the impact of intern working hours and strategies for self care
- Demonstrate scholarship and self-appraisal skills; actively seek and engage with feedback to facilitate continuous professional development
- Order common investigations in a rational manner
- Demonstrate cultural competency appropriate to intern tasks