Unit Code: NAP884

Unit Name: Clinical Practice

Description: This course is designed to provide students with clinical practice to the various areas including special clinics in the hospital and health centre facilities. Clinical rotations include women’s health care, family planning, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS, antenatal, labor and delivery, postnatal, newborn and neonatal care; outpatient clinics, including general medicine (including paediatrics), ENT, ophthalmology, cardiology, diabetic clinic, dermatology, A & E, and infectious diseases; and hospital rounds and in-depth case analyses. During this period, students also perform family, environmental and community assessments, provide paediatric well child care, and apply advanced health education and nutritional counseling skills.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, the students will be able to: 1. Demonstrate skills in obtaining a complete or problem-oriented health histories and appropriate physical examinations, distinguishing between normal and abnormal findings. 2. Analyse appropriate investigations for the diagnoses of specific health problems. 3. Implement the management plans of common primary health care problems 4. Distinguish medical or surgical problems requiring physician consultation or referral and act accordingly. 5. Demonstrate effective communication when interacting with patients, families, and other allied health professionals.

Prerequisite: NAP880 & NAP881

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 40

Offered In: Semester 2