Internationalisation of Curriculum for MBBS
In this Curriculum map there has been a deliberate emphasis on the relevant graduate attributes associated with intercultural competence. For the purposes of our MBBS course, internationalisation has been further interpreted to emphasise a transformative process where:
- our international students are optimally accepted & integrated and,
- all our students understand and practice inter-cultural competence through critical culturism.
Theme 1: Human health & disease
Graduate Medical Profile outcome | Specific Outcome | Teaching activity or experience | Unit location | Key word |
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1. Understands the scientific basis of health and disease | 1.4 Describes the pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of a range of specific common diseases | Rabies & lyssavirus lecture | CAM 304 |
Tropical disease, HIV Malaria, TB dengue Parasitic diseases |
1.5 Understands the use of common therapeutic interventions in health care | Tropical Medicine 3 wk Selective | Yr 4 | ||
2. Understands the relevance of basic science to the clinical setting | Differential diagnosis (and interpretation of lab tests) in different settings | |||
4. Demonstrates the ability to systematically elicit and interpret clinical symptoms and signs | 4.1 Demonstrates the ability to take a systematic history in all clinical settings | Clinical history in diverse populations | ||
4.2 Demonstrates the ability to examine a patient on both a regional and a systems basis | Physical examination | |||
5. Demonstrates the ability to perform clinical procedures, especially those required in life saving situations | 5. 1 Demonstrates the ability to perform all clinical procedures outlined in the "clinical procedures" section of the learning portfolio document | |||
6. Understands the limitations to scientific knowledge | 6.3 Understands the role and contribution of medical science to overall concepts of health and disease in individuals and populations | |||
6.4 Understands the effect that social, mental and spiritual factors have on health and disease |
Theme 2: Communication & Collaboration
Graduate Medical Profile outcome | Specific outcome | Teaching activity or experience | Unit location | Key word |
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7. Demonstrates an understanding of the therapeutic relationship between patient and doctor | 7.2 Demonstrates respect for patients differing cultures and values, and understands how these effect the therapeutic relationship | Cultural respect practices and differences workshops x2 DHHS & Migrant Resource Centre | CAM 101 | Multi-cultural health Cultural competence & safety Interpreters |
Dignity and diversity case study | CAM 101 | |||
Our cultural norms and expectations lecture AM BW | CAM 102 | |||
Wholistic and general practice approach to refugee & migrant health CB | CAM 102 | |||
Dignity lecture | CAM 201 | |||
Cross cultural knowledge and practices lecture | CAM 101 | |||
Cultural competence lectures 2 (EDS) | CAM 201 | |||
Kids and Family Program | CAM 101 | |||
Online module/peer discussion on Multicultural Health | CAM 304/5 | |||
Elective Program – 5th yr Symposium, 4th yr orientation, Pre-departure workshop ^ | CAM 434/435/436 | |||
Use of Interpreters workshop NC Intercultural consultation Wshop NC |
CAM 532 CAM 43$ | |||
9. Demonstrates the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues in the healthcare team setting | 9.1 Understands theoretical concepts of teamwork | Teamwork | ||
9.2 Demonstrates the ability to work in teams with other medical students/doctors | ||||
10. Understands the principles of leadership and providing a leadership role, where appropriate to health care teams | 10.2 Identifies the application of leadership skills in a health care team environment | CAM 202 |
Leadership Entrepreneurialism Activism |
Theme 3: Community Health & Disease
Graduate Medical Profile outcome | Specific outcome | Teaching activity or experience | Unit location | Key word |
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11. Understands the Australian Health care System including its funding, planning and major national priorities and contrasts this with the global context of healthcare provision. | 11.8 Compares and contrasts the Australian health care system with those in SE Asia, Europe & North America |
Indian Medicine lecture Chinese medicine lectureDA |
CAM101 CAM101 | Health systems |
12. Understands the social, political, economic, environmental, cultural and spiritual factors that impact on the health of individuals and communities | 12.1 Understands the WHO definition of health and its relevance to 21st century Australia |
Reflective essay: What does health mean to me? The social gradient and health outcomes |
CAM101 CAM101 | Definition of health |
12.2 Understands the principles of primary health care |
Introduction to health promotion lecture Health determinants & PHC lecture |
CAM101 CAM101 | Primary health care | |
12.3 Critically appraises health related political policies |
Workshop: Doctors & activism Humanitarian health care & MSF lecture |
CAM201 CAM101 | Geo-political effects on health | |
12.6 Understands the relationships between the environment (natural and man made) and the health of individuals and communities |
Medicine & environment lecture Occup. & environmental health (climate change, disasters) MD Social & environmental determinants of health lecture MD Global health Workshop NC |
CAM201 CAM201 CAM101 CAM432 |
Climate change Zoonosis Biodiversity Disasters | |
13 Understands the principals involved in the effective utilisation of hospital and community based resources and networks | 13.1 Understands the burden of disease upon populations |
Refugee Health CD- self directed and as part of workshops Migrant health lecture CVD epidemiology in developing countries Refugee CBL 4th yr LCS Filed visit MRC and Refugee clinic LCS |
CAM 201 CAM201 CAM 201 CAM 435 CAM 435 | Refugee health, Multicultural health |
13.5 Understands the roles of community based/charitable organisations in the provision of healthcare |
Humanitarian health care –MSF lecture Career pathway lecture |
CAM201 CAM101 | Health systems | |
14. Understands the various roles of the doctor in health promotion, health maintenance, disease prevention and treatment at both population and individual patient levels | 14.2 Understands the concepts of health promotion, health maintenance and disease prevention |
Rural week Introduction to health promotion lecture MD Health promotion/research project tutorial MD |
CAM201 CAM101 CAM305 | Health promotion |
14.5 Understands public and population approaches to health and healthcare |
Intro to Population health lecture Urban health lecture Population health & national health priority areas Public health lecture MD |
CAM101 CAM101 CAM102 CAM102 |
Population health Public health | |
15 Demonstrates an understanding of knowledge generation and application through community based research and education programs | 15.2 Understands the means by which medical practitioners can engage with their community in research and education programs including the identification of barriers and strategies to overcome these |
Rural week Primary care rotation – research project |
Yr 2 Yr 4 | Research |
15.3 Understands methods that allow interaction with other health professionals in the community around research education collaboration | Collaboration | |||
16 Understands the special needs of certain communities including access and equity issues | 16.1 Understands the socio-cultural perspectives of health and health care needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders |
"Walk with us" program Yr 1 Riawunna staff- cultural awareness and safety 2 x3 hr W/shop Lecture: Health inequalities Community visits CBLs Lecture : Intro to Aboriginal health |
CAM101 CAM101 |
Aboriginal health Remote health |
16.3 Understands the cultural practices of non-Western people around traditional healing methods and practices | Multicultural health | |||
16.4 Understands how the context of health care setting influences clinical practice | Kids & Family Program "Far from Care" Issues and solutions seminar CBLs | 102-304 CAM101 | Multicultural health Global patterns of disease Remote and rural health Culture shock |
Theme 4: Personal & Professional Development
Graduate Medical Profile outcome | Specific outcome | Teaching activity or experience | Unit location | Key word |
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17. Demonstrates a commitment to compassionate, professional and ethical behaviour | 17.2 Demonstrates the ability to gain informed consent for medical procedures |
Lecture: Intro to bioethics Lecture: Varieties of ethics Lecture: Ethics in everyday life Lectures: Professionalism 1 & 2 + discussion Lecture: Paying organ donors Lecture: Individual v Family Lecture: Competent refusal of care Lecture: Confidentiality & privacy Lecture: Reporting of bad behaviour by colleagues Lecture: Consent |
CAM 101 CAM 101 CAM101 CAM101 CAM 102 CAM101 CAM101 CAM101 CAM201 CAM101 |
Ethics Professionalism |
18. Demonstrates the ability to recognise one owns strengths and weaknesses and to be open to assistance from others when needed | 18.1 Demonstrates the ability to critique their own performance | Self reflection | ||
18.2 Demonstrates the ability to recognise the limitations of their own expertise in caring for a patient | Self reflection | |||
20. Understands the need for respect for the inherent dignity of every human being and demonstrates its relevance to medical practice | 20.1 Demonstrates the ability to explore their own reactions to patients with physical or mental disability, social disadvantage, aging and death in terms of the normative aspects of health and their own personal value system |
Lecture : How useful is the concept of dignity Lecture: Autonomy & its limits Lecture: Health inequalities Lecture: Equality & justice |
CAM201 CAM201 CAM201 CAM 201 |
Ethics Professionalism |
21.Understands the principles of quality improvement, risk management, and patient safety | 21.1 Understands concepts of open disclosure and safety and quality principles in terms of trust, ethics and systems | Lecture: Medical uncertainty & medical error | CAM 201 | Ethics |
23 Understands and applies concepts of reflective practice | 23.1 Demonstrates a commitment to life long learning, self-appraisal and reflection |
Guide to Reflective learning- Booklet Respect and reflective learning lecture Perspectives on Aging seminar series |
CAM 101 CAM 202 | Reflective learning |
23.2 Demonstrates ability to define their own learning needs in a given situation | Career pathway lecture- including remote & indigenous health | CAM 101 | Personal development |
Theme 5: Integration
Graduate Medical Profile outcome | Specific outcome | Teaching activity or experience | Unit location | Key word |
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24. Demonstrates an ability to apply critical and creative thinking to a range of problems | 24.1 Creates and defends reasonable, individualised differential diagnoses for a variety of patient presentations |
Clinical reasoning in different contexts Epidemiology of disease in different environments Infectious diseases | ||
24.3 Enunciates and defends appropriate ethical positions in relationship to proposed actions in a variety of clinical situations. |
See 17 Lecture: Ethics and EBM | CAM102 | Ethics | |
25. Demonstrates an ability to integrate and synthesise disparate material to arrive at the most appropriate solution to a problem | 25.1 Understands the principles of evidence-base healthcare, health economics and decision analysis | Lecture: Health service economics & justice | CAM 210 |
Health systems Geopolitical effects on health Business |
26. Demonstrates the ability to develop, in consultation an appropriate patient centred management plan | 26.1 Enunciates the extent and limitation of contributions by other health professionals to the management of a given patient |
Rural week Career pathway lecture- including remote & indigenous health | CAM 101 | Teamwork |
26.2 Outlines the appropriate medical interventions for a variety of patient presentations, in various clinical settings | Context of treatment |