MED5105 Advanced clinical practice

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Demonstrate ethical, professional and personal responsibility and behaviours consistent with good clinical practice and professional codes of practice.

2. 2

   Provide safe, compassionate, and patient-centred health care.

3. 3

   Use knowledge and skills to apply strategies for delivering culturally safe health care with respect to individual and cultural and linguistic diversity, strategies for incorporating anti-racist and affirmative action approaches in health care practice.

4. 4

   Source, interpret, critically review, and apply core medical and scientific knowledge from current literature to make clinical judgements in health care.

5. 5

   Apply key concepts in population health, epidemiology and measurement of health and disease in populations in clinical practice.

6. 6

   Explain health system management and make judgements to achieve the judicious use of health care resources.

7. 7

   Apply specialised knowledge, skills and reasoning in clinical consultations to formulate and justify diagnosis, investigations and management plan.

8. 8

   Select, interpret and justify investigations based upon clinical findings, pathology of the disease, practicality and cost effectiveness and use results to develop and justify a management plan.