Personal and Professional Development Theme Sessions are diverse, including aspects of personal development, evidence-based medicine, ethics and medical humanities. The Patient and Doctor Theme activities occur in the clinical schools as indicated below. There is a major focus on the critical appraisal of the evidence that underpins medical decision-making. From the start, students learn the skills of finding and appraising relevant literature. In later years, they apply these skills in the diagnosis and management of individual patients.
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Options Students may undertake one or more options during the first two years of the program. The elective rotation term in the third or fourth year offers opportunities for students to plan for supervised experience in clinical or community work or research, anywhere in the world. While practical clinical experience forms the substrate for all learning in the latter two years of the USydMP, a structured teaching program extends throughout this part of the course. The balance between clerkship-based activities and scheduled sessions varies. In general, formal teaching sessions are reduced in number and frequency as students move from the early part of their Year 3 attachments to the last rotations in Year 4 and are essentially withdrawn in the Pre-internship term.