Critical Care Medicine
Table of units of study: Critical Care Medicine
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Compulsory units |
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Graduate Diploma students |
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| Graduate Diploma students must complete 6 credit points of compulsory units of study | |||
| CEPI5100 Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology |
6 | N PUBH5010 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
Master's students |
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| Master's students must complete 12 credit points of compulsory units of study | |||
| CEPI5100 Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology |
6 | N PUBH5010 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| CRIT5008 Evidence and Ethics in Critical Care |
6 | P CEPI5100 and 18 credit points of stream specific units of study N BETH5208 or PAED5005 or MBHT5005 |
Semester 2 |
Stream specific units |
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| Graduate Certificate students must complete 24 credit points of stream specific units of study. | |||
| Graduate Diploma students must complete 24 credit points of stream specific units of study. | |||
| Master's students must complete 24 credit points of stream specific units of study. | |||
| CEPI5100 Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology |
6 | N PUBH5010 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| CRIT5001 Anatomy for Critical Care |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| CRIT5002 Pathology for Critical Care |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| CRIT5003 Pharmacology for Critical Care |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| CRIT5004 Physiology for Critical Care |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| CRIT5005 Clinical Reasoning and Communication |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment Places in this unit are limited and departmental permission is required. |
Semester 2 |
| CRIT5006 Retrieval Med - Operational Environment |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| CRIT5007 Clinical Retrieval Medicine |
6 | P CRIT5006 |
Semester 2 |
| CRIT5009 Teaching with Simulation |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment Enrolments in this unit are limited and departmental permission is required. |
Semester 1 |
| CRIT5010 Point of Care Ultrasound |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment Students must have access to an ultrasound machine as well as live patients to complete scans. Enrolments in this unit of study are limited and departmental permission is required. |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| CLNP5001 Basic Sciences in Clinical Neurophysiology |
6 |
Students can apply for a waiver if they have completed equivalent study within the last 5 years. Evidence of previous study will be required and completion of an RPL examination. |
Semester 1 |
| CLNP5005 Neuromonitoring in Anaesthesia |
6 | C CLNP5001 Critical Care students must request special permission to enrol in this unit of study. |
Semester 2 |
| INTM5014 Cardiology |
6 | A Theoretical and practical knowledge of cardiology at least at the level of a registered medical practitioner This unit of study is available only to registered medical graduates working in an Australian clinical setting. |
Semester 1 |
| PAIN5002 Pain Mechanisms and Contributors |
6 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
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| PAIN5003 Pain Treatment and Management Principles |
6 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
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| PAIN5021 Acute Pain |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| IMAG5042 Essential Imaging for Clinicians |
6 | Semester 2 |
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General elective units |
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| Graduate Diploma students complete 6 credit points of stream specific or general elective units of study. | |||
| Master's students complete 12 credit points of stream specific or general elective units of study. | |||
| BETH5104 Bioethics, Law and Society |
6 |
Prerequisites: A three-year undergraduate degree in science, medicine, nursing, allied health sciences, philosophy/ethics, sociology/anthropology, law, history, or other relevant field, or by special permission. |
Semester 1 |
| CEPI5200 Quality and Safety in Health Care |
6 |
People working in health care will benefit from this course. |
Semester 1 |
| CEPI5215 Writing and Reviewing Medical Papers |
6 | A Some basic knowledge of summary statistic is assumed P (PUBH5010 or CEPI5100) N CEPI5214 Students without the pre-requisites are encouraged to contact the unit coordinator to discuss their motivation and experience. |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| CEPI5300 Research Grants: theory and practice |
6 | P (PUBH5010 or CEPI5100) and PUBH5018 N CEPI5505 |
Semester 1 |
| CEPI5315 Introduction to Systematic Reviews |
6 | C CEPI5100 or PUBH5010 N CEPI5203 or CEPI5102 or CEPI5314 |
Semester 1 |
| CLNP5002 Diagnostic Electroencephalography |
6 | C CLNP5001 Critical Care and Internal Medicine students must request special permission to enrol in this unit of study. |
Semester 1 |
| CLNP5006 Intraoperative Monitoring I |
6 | C CLNP5001 Critical Care students must request special permission to enrol in this unit of study. |
Semester 1 |
| DERM5001 Essential Dermatology |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| INTM5004 Basic Respiratory Medicine |
3 |
This unit of study is available only to registered medical graduates working in an Australian clinical setting. |
Semester 2 |
| INTM5009 Basic Infectious Diseases |
3 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
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| MBHT5001 Diabetes Management |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| MBHT5002 Advanced Diabetes Management |
6 | A It is recommended that students first complete MBHT5001 (Diabetes Management) unless they have a reasonable working knowledge of how to approach assessment and management of diabetes mellitus in a variety of clinical settings. P MBHT5001 Departmental permission required unless MBHT5001 satisfactorily completed. |
Semester 2 |
| MEDF5002 Teaching in the Clinical Environment |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| PAIN5018 Pain in Children |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| PUBH5018 Introductory Biostatistics |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| SEXH5200 Advanced STIs |
6 |
Note: For students who are not enrolled in one of the Sexual and Reproductive Health degrees or Internal Medicine must apply to the Unit of Study Coordinator for permission to enrol in this unit of study. |
Semester 1 |
| SEXH5409 Medical Management of Interpersonal Violence |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| SURG5011 Imaging Surgical Patients |
6 | Semester 2 |
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Project units of study |
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| Students accepted into the Master (Advanced) program must complete 12 credit points of project units of study. Students must enrol in a minimum of 12 credit points of project units of study in order to submit their final written work. | |||
| MEDF5301 Project (Advanced Masters) |
12 |
Approval of the project and supervisor by the course coordinator must be confirmed prior to commencing the project. |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| MEDF5302 Project (Advanced Masters) (Part A) |
6 |
Approval of the project and supervisor by the course coordinator must be confirmed prior to commencing the project. |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| MEDF5303 Project (Advanced Masters) (Part B) |
6 |
Approval of the project and supervisor by the course coordinator must be confirmed prior to commencing the project. |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
Double degree research units - international candidates only |
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| **Please note that the Double Degree progam is not available in 2018** | |||
| International candidates enrolled in the double degree must complete the following four units over the two years of the program. Specific enrolment patterns are shown below. If the candidate is not able to submit the thesis for the Master of Philosophy after two years of enrolment, they must enrol in both MEDF4003 and MEDF4004 for further semesters, with the associated cost of enrolment, until they are able to submit. | |||
| MEDF4001 Medicine Research A |
12 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| MEDF4002 Medicine Research B |
12 | C MEDF4001 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| MEDF4003 Medicine Research C |
12 | C MEDF4002 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| MEDF4004 Medicine Research D |
12 | C MEDF4003 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |