SYLLABUS Students attend the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, full-time daily for a period of ten weeks during their Fifth Year and for two weeks during their Sixth Year.
An integrated programme of teaching organized by the Professor of Paediatrics is given at the Royal Children's Hospital. This commences with an orientation week during which students are introduced by means of lectures, films, demonstrations and clinical sessions to various aspects of growth and development in normal children and to clinical problems of infancy and childhood.
This is followed by clinical instruction in the wards and out-patient de- partment and a course of lectures in paediatric medicine and surgery given by members of the senior medical staff of the hospital and of the Depart- ment of Paediatrics. Clinical tutors assist in the teaching programme in the wards. Students attend sessions in the Psychiatric department and are given demonstrations in the departments of Pathology and Radiology, and a clinical demonstration in paediatric cardiology.
Students pay a series of visits to institutions caring for children in the community. These institutions include the Lady Gowrie Child Centre, an Infant Welfare Centre and Kew Children's Cottages. The Maternal and Child Welfare Branch of the Health Department arranges a tour of infant welfare centres, creches and pre-school centres. Other institutions are visited by groups of students in the course of investigatory problems allotted to them. All students are given an assignment in clinical or social paediatrics and report the results of their investigation to the group as a whole. While at the Royal Women's Hospital each student is allotted an infant, whom he has delivered, for the purpose of study and follow-up at home over the next nine or twelve months. At the end of the period of study, the student writes a report on the progress and development of this child.
Students are resident in the Royal Children's Hospital for two weeks in the Fifth Year.
Instruction in Neonatal Paediatrics is organized by the First Assistant in Neonatal Paediatrics in conjunction with honorary Paediatric staff and neonatal paediatricians in the Professorial Units at the Royal Women's Hospital and Mercy Hospital during the students' period there.
BOOKS (a) Prescribed textbooks:
•Hutchison J H Practical Paediatric Problems, Lloyd-Luke 1967
•Illingworth R S The Normal Child, 4th ed Churchill 1968 (b) Recommended for reference:
Jones P G (ed) Clinical Paediatric Surgery, Ure Smith 1970
Faculty of Medicine
Scantlebury Brown V & Campbell K A Guide to the Care of the Young Child, 5th ed Public Health Dept of Vic 1963
Nelson W E Text-book of Paediatrics, 9th ed Saunders 1969
or
Barnett H L Paediatrics, 14th ed 1968
EXAMINATION Medical aspects of paediatrics are included in the ex- amination in Medicine. Surgical aspects are included in the examination in Surgery, and neonatal aspects in the written examination in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
PSYCHIATRY
Psychiatry is an important clinical discipline and teaching in the subject is carried out in the 4th, 5th and 6th years. Each week in fourth year a number of small group patient discussions are arranged that form an 'introduction to clinical psychiatry'.
In the 5th year, all students spend 6 weeks full time clerking on psychia- tric patients (in-patients, out-patients and day patients). 3 weeks of this time is spent at the students' teaching hospital and 3 weeks at the Park- ville Psychiatric Unit. The 6 weeks is organized by the Professor of. Psy- chiatry and tutors include University teachers, honoraries at the teaching hospitals and selected consultants in the Mental Health Authority. 10 University lectures are given in the 5th year. For Austin Hospital students, psychiatric clerking takes place for eight weeks at that hospital and at Larundel Hospital.
6th year teaching takes the form of case discussions in the medical wards of the general hospitals on patients with psychiatric and medical prob- lems.
BOOKS
Davies B An Introduction to Clinical Psychiatry, MUP Gregory I Fundamentals of Psychiatry, Saunders 1968
EXAMINATION A multiple choice examination is given at the end of the period of clinical clerking in 5th year. Marks in the final examination are given for performance in the Fifth year clerking. In addition, written and oral questions on psychiatry are included in the final examination in Medicine.
POST-MORTEM DEMONSTRATIONS
Post-mortem demonstrations are arranged at the teaching hospitals (see 'Clinical Instruction at Recognized Teaching Hospitals') and students must obtain a minimum of forty attendances during the period of Division IV.
OPHTHALMOLOGY
Clinical demonstrations and lectures in Ophthalmology are given at (i) The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Mondays to Fridays at
9 a.m. and 2 p.m. A course of 8 lectures is given on Saturdays at. 9 a.m. twice per year commencing on the first Saturday in February and September respectively.
(ii) Royal Melbourne Hospital, on Tuesday and Friday mornings.
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(iii) St. Vincent's Hospital, on Mondays at 9 a.m. and Thursdays at 2 p.m.
(iv) Austin Hospital, at times to be arranged.
Students are expected to have an ophthalmoscope at all clinics.
BOOK Recommended for reference:
Trevor-Roper P D Lecture Notes on Ophthalmology, Blackwell Scientific Publications 1960
EXAMINATION There is no formal examination, but, at the end of his period of clinical instruction, the student may be required to satisfy his clinician that he has reached the required standard of proficiency. Ques- tions on Ophthalmology may be included in the final M.B., B.S. examina- tion.
DERMATOLOGY
A course of six lecture demonstrations, delivered at the recognized teach- ing hospitals.
Clinical instruction in Diseases of the Skin will be conducted—
At the Royal Melbourne Hospital, on Tuesday and Friday mornings.
At St. Vincent's Hospital, on Mondays at 9 a.m., Wednesdays at 2 p.m., and Thursdays at 9 a.m.
At Austin Hospital (times to be arranged).
BOOKS (a) Prescribed textbooks:
Jarrett A Spearman R I C & Riley P A Dermatology—A Functional In- troduction, English UP 1966
Sneddon I B & Church R E Practical Dermatology, Arnold London Re- printed 1966
(b) Recommended for reference:
Rook A J et al Textbook of Dermatology, 2 vols 1st ed Blackwell 1968 EXAMINATION Questions are included in the final examination in Medicine.
VACCINATION
Students are required to attend instruction in Vaccination and to acquire proficiency to the satisfaction of the instructor. The Instructor in Vac- cination is Dr A. E. Duxbury, Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, Park- ville.
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Clinical instruction consists of six lecture demonstrations arranged at Fairfield Hospital by the Medical Superintendent at 2 o'clock on two afternoons per week.
BOOKS Recommended for reference:
Krugman S & Ward R Infectious Diseases of Children, 4th ed Mosby 1968
Horsfall F L & Tamm I Viral and Rickettsia/ Diseases of Man, 4th ed J B Lippincott Co Philadelphia 1965
Faculty of Medicine
Top Franklin H et al Communicable and Infectious Diseases: Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment, 6th ed Mosby 1968
EXAMINATION Questions are included in the final examination in Medi- cine.