Unit Code: FMD900

Unit Name: Family Medicine IV

Description: FMD900 is the final year of the MMED – Family Medicine programme. Following on from FMD820 and FMD830, this course utilises the prior knowledge, skills and attitudes demonstrated, to enable the candidate to function as a trainee family medicine specialist. This year contains both research and clinical components. The research component is outlined in MED812. As candidates have already passed their exit exams at this point, a broader range of clinical settings may be appropriate for this course. Candidates may undertake an international placement, for example in Australia or New Zealand. In circumstances where the candidates is planned to move to a remote setting following graduation, the candidate may spend part of this year in non-primary care settings, in order to up-skill in preparation. Such non-primary care placements will be at the discretion of the employer and in consultation with the School.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, the students will be able to: 1. Apply an expert knowledge of population health and patterns of disease within the region, and routinely synthesize these principles into primary medical care. 2. Demonstrate expert consultation skills within a diverse range of complex circumstances, incorporating high level counselling techniques, synthesizing patients’ ideas, concerns and expectations and developing person-centred management plans. 3. Formulate and review biopsychosocial preventive health care plans incorporating an expert analysis of the characteristics of individuals, families and communities. 4. Demonstrate expert, evidence based, person centred management of acute presentations, including emergency presentations, within a variety of primary care settings and review patient outcomes to improve systems. 5. Apply expert biopsychosocial analysis of persons with chronic health care needs, including risk factors for chronic disease; negotiate and implement person-centred, culturally appropriate chronic disease care plans in partnership with patients, families and communities. 6. Facilitate expert multidisciplinary teamwork to co-ordinate referral and follow up of complex cases; assume a care-co-ordination and patient advocacy role within health care teams. 7. Demonstrate an ongoing commitment to evidence based best practice via the application of the candidate’s original primary care research to patient care, and through adaptation of international evidence to the primary care environment. 8. Model leadership skill as a specialist primary care practitioner, analyzing health systems and advocating for change where needed to improve health outcomes at a population level.

Prerequisite: FMD830

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 120

Offered In: Semester 1,2