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Medicine Year 5 - 5A unit (CAM524)

Location: Cradle Coast, Hobart, Launceston

Professional Experience Placement (PEP)

Students will be allocated PEP within individual health care agencies. Students must be available 5 days a week (40 hours) during the allocated PEP, and must be prepared to undertake a range of shifts – morning, evening and nightshift, which may include weekends, as per roster provided by the healthcare agency. Students may be expected to relocate and are expected to travel to where PEP is available. To be eligible to undertake PEP, all students must be ‘Verified’ as meeting College of Health and Medicine PEP Safety in Practice Compliance as per the Course Entry Requirements.

Students who cannot or do not comply with these requirements will not be allocated PEP and therefore will not be able to complete this unit.

PEP dates MAY differ from University of Tasmania calendar semester dates.

Grade

At the completion of CAM524 an AO (Assessment Ongoing) grade is awarded because of the year long nature of some assessments. The result for year two (CAM524 and CAM525 combined) will be released at the end of semester two.

Introduction

This unit is an integrated Clinical Placement year. Students are placed in a range of clinical placements. Student learning outcomes are organised to deliver the Australian Medical Council (AMC) medical student outcomes. This unit is integrated with the programme in the following year of the course. Case based learning sessions will cover core clinical issues and will be delivered by a mixture of learning opportunities and will require self-directed learning approaches. The MBBS curriculum uses the AMC 4 domains as an organising principle under which the outcomes are assessed. The 4 domains are: Clinical Practice (the medical graduate as practitioner), Professionalism and Leadership (the medical graduate as a professional and leader), Health and Society (the medical graduate as a health advocate), and Science and Scholarship (the medical graduate as scientist and scholar). On completion of CAM524 students receive an AO (Assessment Ongoing) result. A final result is granted on completion of CAM525. Note: Students are required to enrol concurrently in CAM524 and CAM525. In order to commence workplace learning outside of the University of Tasmania (including clinical placements and visits) students are required to demonstrate compliance with the College of Health and Medicine and Tasmanian School of Medicine policies relevant to workplace based learning. These include the Police Check Policy and Procedures, Infectious Disease Policy, Code of Conduct and Student Placement Agreement. Students who do not comply with these policies will not be placed or will be removed from placements and therefore will not be able to complete this unit. Students who have not complied or are unsure of the policies should seek guidance from the School.

Summary

Unit name Medicine Year 5 - 5A
Unit code CAM524
Credit points 50
College/School Health
School of Medicine
Discipline Medicine
Coordinator Doctor Nara Jones
Delivered By University of Tasmania
Level Postgraduate

Availability

Specific information on 2027 unit availability will be available in August

Key Dates

Study Period Start date Census date WW date End date
Half Year Period 1 24/1/2027 15/3/2027 7/4/2027 19/6/2027

* The Final WW Date is the final date from which you can withdraw from the unit without academic penalty, however you will still incur a financial liability (refer to How do I withdraw from a unit? for more information).

Unit census dates currently displaying for 2027 are indicative and subject to change. Finalised census dates for 2027 will be available from the 1st October 2026. Note census date cutoff is 11.59pm AEST (AEDT during October to March).

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Learning Outcomes

  • Meet the learning objectives of each discipline as listed in the Year 5 Learning Outcomes.
  • Meet the learning objectives for Case-Based Learning as listed in the Year 5 Learning Outcomes.
  • Meet the standards of the AMC Medical Graduate Outcomes.

Fee Information

2027 fee information will be available in August.

Requisites

Prerequisites

CAM419

Mutual Exclusions

You cannot enrol in this unit as well as the following:

CAM518

Teaching

Teaching Pattern

15 weeks of clinical attachment and 4 weeks of group learning at allocated clinical school.

AssessmentProfessional Portfolio
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Textbooks

Required

Required readings and other resources will be provided through MyLO.

Recommended

You can access the reading list for this unit from the link in MyLO or by going directly to the reading lists page on the University Library website.

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