99647 Clinic Level 6

This subject is divided into three modules

Module 1: Clinical Assistant Level 6: Approximately 30 per cent of the undergraduate training program is devoted to clinical experience and preparation for becoming a qualified traditional Chinese medicine practitioner. This module builds on the first two-and-a-half years of theoretical, practical and clinical training and develops student skills and professional understanding of clinical practice as exemplified in the University's outpatient clinic.

Module 2: Internship training: Students engage in a series of group exercises to prepare a fourth clinical management plan. This plan covers all aspects of daily management and promotion of their future internship clinic. Students engage in a series of reflective exercises dealing with the legal and ethical issues they may face during their internship clinic and upon graduation. They must also undertake the preparation of a learning contract in an area of clinical specialisation of their own choosing that they execute during their fourth-year clinics.

Module 3: Disease States: This subject module contributes to the development of an evidenced-based approach to the clinical practice of Chinese medicine (CM). The subject module develops clinical understanding of disease and its treatment through the integration of theories and knowledge from Chinese medicine with biomedical and western medicine understandings of diseases and their processes. A number of diseases are covered from traumatology and paediatric CM clinical areas.

Preventative health measures and strategies for health maintenance are additionally addressed in this subject module. These are discussed in the context of Yang Sheng, the CM clinical area of practice relating to health preservation and enhancement including understanding and application of dietary principles. The subject module links into clinical practicum and clinic internship subjects where students are required to put into practice and integrate their learning within a clinical context.

Typical availability

Spring semester, City campus

Note(s)

This subject replaces the Spring semester of 99624 Clinical Theory and Clinic Level 3.