Overview

The Doctor of Medicine - CDU/Flinders is completed after students have successfully completed the first two years of the Bachelor of Clinical Sciences at Charles Darwin University. The course is offered in the Northern Territory.

Student guidance

Program of study overview
Program of study notes

Program of study
144 Units

Year 136 Units
Year 236 Units
Year 336 Units
Year 436 Units

Admission requirements

Admission requirements
Special requirements

Aims

The course is designed to provide a high standard of academic, clinical and professional medical training to provide graduates with the skills necessary to take up positions as hospital interns and thereby qualify for medical registration in Australia.

At the same time, the course fosters autonomous learning and provides a foundation of knowledge and skills in preparation for diverse career choices after graduation.

The MD aims to:

  • Integrate basic science and clinical disciplines and recognise the importance of exposure to the principles, practice and findings of medical research
  • Provide a structured approach to the acquisition of clinical skills and competencies through laboratory and simulated learning and early patient contact made possible by the physical location of the School within the Flinders Medical Centre and the integration of patient care teaching and research in that environment
  • Give students the opportunity to undertake clinical learning in diverse hospital and community environments in Adelaide, country South Australia, western Victoria and the Northern Territory
  • Recognise the importance of basing medical practice on a social and community view of health and illness
  • Support the advocacy of patient care and service as a central focus in medical practice
  • Ensure students gain an understanding of the professional roles and responsibilities of doctors and experience in group learning and developing collegial relationships

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course you will be able to:
1.
Domain 1: Use and produce medical and health related research discerningly
2.
Domain 1: Acquire, consolidate and integrate a defined body of evidence-based knowledge from established biological, clinical, epidemiological, social, and behavioural sciences
3.
Domain 1: Undertake, assess, critically appraise, interpret, and apply evidence from medical research and the supporting sciences
4.
Domain 1: Formulate relevant research questions, select applicable study designs and undertake research to contribute to enhanced medical practice and health care provision
5.
Domain 2: Apply core and integrated medical and scientific knowledge to individual patients in clinical practice and to populations and health systems to make judgments and provide optimal, ethical, and patient-centred medical and health care
6.
Domain 2: Use preventative and therapeutic interventions effectively, legally and ethically to diagnose and ensure quality care and patient safety
7.
Domain 2: Communicate effectively and culturally appropriately in diverse and inter-professional healthcare teams to illicit information needed to support accurate problem formulation and optimal health care provision to diverse populations
8.
Domain 3: Understand the Australian health care systems, the social determinants of health as well as the variance of health and illness models across diverse cultures, in particular the health of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations, and appreciates the need for social justice and advocacy in the delivery of health care
9.
Domain 4: Practice and lead as an independent, collaborative, self-regulating learner who is aware of the limitations of your own knowledge and capabilities and has a commitment to address these in ongoing professional learning
10.
Domain 4: Exercise leadership in wider roles of health advocacy, teaching, assessing, and appraising
11.
Domain 4: Know and demonstrate a commitment to high standards of personal and professional behaviour with patients and their families, colleagues and inter-professional teams

Student progression rules

Failure to complete the course within seven consecutive years, may constitute prima facie evidence of unsatisfactory progress for the purposes of the University's Policy on Student Progress. Where credit has been granted a lesser period to complete the course may be set by the Dean (Education).

Students who undertake a leave of absence from fulltime study in the course, for a period of 6 months or more, will be required to successfully complete the additional topic MMED9001 Clinical Practice Preparedness (4.5 units) as part of their Program of Study.

Students are required to register with the Medical Board of Australia as a condition of their enrolment in the course. A student whose registration is suspended will not be permitted to continue in the course until such time as their suspension is lifted. The student's re-enrolment may be subject to conditions imposed by either the Medical Board of Australia or the Dean (Education).

A student who at any time withdraws from, is precluded from, or fails to re-enrol in the MD shall be permitted to re-enrol in the course only with the prior approval of the Dean (Education).