Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)
Program Code
BMBBS
Program Faculty
Faculty of Health Sciences
Academic Year
2016
These Program Rules should be read in conjunction with the University's policies (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies).
Overview
This program is designed to train graduates who may be eligible for registration as medical practitioners upon completion of an internship. The three major ‘streams’ of the course are the core elements of medical practice: The Scientific Basis of Medicine, Clinical Skills, and Medical Professional and Personal Development. These three streams form the basis of an integrated case based program in Years 1–3. Throughout Years 4–6, students will expand their knowledge, experience and skills within these three streams as they undertake placements within the teaching hospitals and in the broader medical community.
The Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery is an AQF Level 7 qualification with a standard full-time duration of 6 years.
Conditions
Condition of Enrolment
Prescribed Communicable Infection Clearance: Students must comply with the Students With Prescribed Communicable Infections Policy (www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/591).
Tuberculosis Clearance: Students who undertake clinical placements, internships or research projects involving children or people who are ill, elderly or vulnerable are now required to demonstrate tuberculosis (TB) clearance through obtaining a TB Screening Notification from SA Tuberculosis Services.
First Aid Certificate: All students must hold a current First Aid Certificate.
Criminal History Clearance: Students who undertake clinical placements, internships or research projects involving children or people who are ill, elderly or vulnerable are now required to demonstrate clearance by producing a criminal history check, obtained through a Department for Communities and Social Inclusion (DCSI) check. International students are required to obtain a certificate from their home country.
Immunisation: Students undertaking clinical placements are required to have the appropriate level of immunisation. Immunisation records are requested by clinical venues prior to placements.
Student and Professional Registration: Students accepted into the program are required to be registered with the relevant regulatory authority.
Uniform: During clinical placements students are required to comply with professional dress standards.
Rural Placements: Enrolment in the University of Adelaide’s Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery requires students to undertake rural clinical placements. Commonwealth supported students (in both bonded and unbonded places) need to complete four weeks of rural placements before graduation, with 25% of students required to complete one year of clinical training in a rural site. If these places are not filled by students voluntarily, all students in Commonwealth supported places will be included in a random ballot to be allocated to one of these year-long rural placements.
English Language Proficiency assessment: A student entering the First Year of the program shall be required to undertake an English Language Proficiency assessment.
Interruption of program: Students must apply for permission from the Dean of Medicine before taking a Leave of Absence. Any extension of the leave without approval will result in the loss of place in the program but an application may be made to be re-admitted to the program subject to the admission procedures in place at the time.
Inherent requirements: Students are required to acknowledge their understanding of the University of Adelaide medical programs inherent requirements (see http://health.adelaide.edu.au/admissions/medicine/inherent-requirements).
Academic Program Rules for Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
There shall be a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery.
Qualification Requirements
To qualify for the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, the student must complete satisfactorily a program of study consisting of the following requirements with a combined total of not less than 144 units:
- Core courses to the value of 141 units
- Elective courses to the value of 3 units
- Work based training / extra mural studies
Core Courses
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Core Courses
To satisfy the requirements for Core Courses students must complete courses to the value of 141 units.
Level I MEDIC ST 1000A/B First Year Examination
Courses to the value of up to 24 units may be taken from the following:
Students are required to take both the Part A and the matching Part B course:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value MEDIC ST 1101A Scientific Basis of Medicine I Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 1101B Scientific Basis of Medicine I Part 2 6 MEDIC ST 1102A Clinical Skills I Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 1102B Clinical Skills I Part 2 6 MEDIC ST 1103A Medical Professional & Personal Development I Pt 1 0 MEDIC ST 1103B Medical Professional & Personal Development I Pt 2 6 BIOLOGY 1310A Fundamentals of Biomedical Science 0 BIOLOGY 1310B Fundamentals of Biomedical Science 6 Level II MEDIC ST 2000A/B Second Year Examination
Courses to the value of up to 21 units may be taken from the following:
Students are required to take both the Part A and the matching Part B course:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value MEDIC ST 2101A Scientific Basis of Medicine II Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 2101B Scientific Basis of Medicine II Part 2 6 MEDIC ST 2102A Clinical Skills II Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 2102B Clinical Skills II Part 2 6 MEDIC ST 2103A Medical Professional & Personal Development II Pt1 0 MEDIC ST 2103B Medical Professional & Personal Development II Pt2 6 MICRO 2506 Medical Microbiology and Immunology II 3 Level III MEDIC ST 3000A/B Third Year Examination
Courses to the value of up to 24 units may be taken from the following:
Students are required to take both the Part A and the matching Part B course:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value MEDIC ST 3101A Scientific Basis of Medicine III Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 3101B Scientific Basis of Medicine III Part 2 6 MEDIC ST 3102AHO Clinical Skills III Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 3102BHO Clinical Skills III Part 2 6 MEDIC ST 3103A Medical Professional&Personal Development III Pt 1 0 MEDIC ST 3103B Medical Professional&Personal Development III Pt 2 6 MEDIC ST 3104A Research and Clinical Reasoning Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 3104B Research and Clinical Reasoning Part 2 6 Level IV MEDIC ST 4000A/B Fourth Year Examination
Courses to the value of up to 24 units may be taken from the following:
Students are required to take both the Part A and the matching Part B course:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value MEDIC ST 4013AHO Medical and Scientific Attachment 1 Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 4013BHO Medical and Scientific Attachment 1 Part 2 2 MEDIC ST 4014AHO Medical and Scientific Attachment 2 Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 4014BHO Medical and Scientific Attachment 2 Part 2 2 MEDIC ST 4015AHO Medical Home Unit Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 4015BHO Medical Home Unit Part 2 6 MEDIC ST 4016AHO Surgical Home Unit Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 4016BHO Surgical Home Unit Part 2 6 MEDIC ST 4017AHO Psychiatry Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 4017BHO Psychiatry Part 2 4 MEDIC ST 4018AHO Musculoskeletal Medicine Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 4018BHO Musculoskeletal Medicine Part 2 4 Level V MEDIC ST 5000A/B Fifth Year Examination
Courses to the value of up to 24 units may be taken from the following:
Students are required to take both the Part A and the matching Part B course:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value MEDIC ST 5005AHO Medical and Scientific Attachment 3 Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 5005BHO Medical and Scientific Attachment 3 Part 2 2 MEDIC ST 5006AHO Medical and Scientific Attachment 4 Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 5006BHO Medical and Scientific Attachment 4 Part 2 2 MEDIC ST 5007AHO Medical and Scientific Attachment 5 Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 5007BHO Medical and Scientific Attachment 5 Part 2 2 MEDIC ST 5009AHO Geriatrics and General Practice Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 5009BHO Geriatrics and General Practice Part 2 4 MEDIC ST 5014AHO Anaesthesia, Pain Medicine & Intensive Care V Pt1 0 MEDIC ST 5014BHO Anaesthesia, Pain Medicine & Intensive Care V Pt 2 2 MEDIC ST 5015AHO Paediatrics and Child Health Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 5015BHO Paediatrics and Child Health Part 2 6 MEDIC ST 5016AHO Human Reproductive Health Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 5016BHO Human Reproductive Health Part 2 6 Level VI MEDIC ST 6000 Final Sixth Year Assessment
Courses to the value of up to 24 units may be taken from the following:
Students are required to take both the Part A and the matching Part B course:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value MEDIC ST 6015AHO Medicine Internship & Year 6 Teaching Series Pt 1 0 MEDIC ST 6015BHO Medicine Internship & Year 6 Teaching Series Pt 2 3 MEDIC ST 6016AHO Surgery Internship VI Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 6016BHO Surgery Internship VI Part 2 3 MEDIC ST 6017AHO Emergency Department Internship VI Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 6017BHO Emergency Department Internship VI Part 2 3 MEDIC ST 6018AHO Medicine Selective VI Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 6018BHO Medicine Selective VI Part 2 3 MEDIC ST 6019AHO Primary Care Selective VI Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 6019BHO Primary Care Selective VI Part 2 3 MEDIC ST 6020AHO Psychiatry Selective VI Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 6020BHO Psychiatry Selective VI Part 2 3 MEDIC ST 6021AHO Surgery Selective VI Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 6021BHO Surgery Selective VI Part 2 3 MEDIC ST 6022AHO Core Skills Program VI Part 1 0 MEDIC ST 6022BHO Core Skills Program VI Part 2 3 -
Work Based Training / Extra Mural Studies
To satisfy the requirements for Work Based Training / Extra Mural Studies students must adhere to the following:
Before the end of Level VI of the MBBS program, a student is required to complete a four week extra mural activity in the form of an external elective approved by the Dean of Medicine.
Electives
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Elective Courses
To satisfy the requirements for Elective Courses students must complete courses to the value of 3 units.
Level II
Courses to the value of up to 3 units may be taken from the following:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value ANAT SC 3105 Limb Dissection 3 ANAT SC 3108 Applied Anatomy of Cranial Nerves by Dissection 3 ANAT SC 3109 Applied Anatomy of the Thorax and Abdomen 3 OB&GYNAE 3100 Research Project in Reproductive Health 3 PSYCHIAT 3200 Fundamentals of Biological Psychiatry 3 PUB HLTH 3122 International Health III 3 PUB HLTH 3500EX Rural Public Health III 3