Discipline of Rural Health - Faculty of Health Sciences - The ...

Attitudes for success
Your year will be much more enjoyable and geared for success if you can adopt positive attitudes toward:
• collaborative work within and between settings
• teamwork
• active participation in learning through questioning and enquiry, enthusiasm and a commitment to
life-long learning
• development of high levels of self awareness including demonstration of empathy, non-judgemental
acceptance, and authoritative not authoritarian approaches
• reflective capacity in learning with a high level of self awareness of individual attitudes and values and
the factors that developed them
• awareness of the value of other health professionals and members of the broader community
• respect for patients, and that the role of a health professional is to provide service with integrity
• patients linguistic and cultural backgrounds, the value of diversity, and tolerance of uncertainty
• the ethical responsibility of being a medical student, the roles and responsibilities of medical students
and doctors, in view of societal expectations of the profession
• professional behaviour in all clinical and professional relationships
Student behaviours
Fifth year medical students are expected to demonstrate advancement in development of professional
attitudes and behaviours when compared with students in earlier years. As a medical student you will:
• Introduce yourself to staff and patients
• Identify yourself as a medical student who is working as part of the medical team
• Ensure that any written entry you make to medical notes is countersigned by your supervising (or
another) doctor
• Attend all scheduled activities (unless appropriate permission has been sought and given for your
absence)
• Rural fifth year students must apply for short or long term leave in a timely manner following
discussion with their preceptors and following the same protocols as urban students. Approval for
leave must be granted by the Dean prior to any leave being taken. All personnel affected by your
leave (supervisors, preceptors, student coordinators etc.) must then be notified that leave has been
granted and any local issues relating to your leave identified and negotiated with the Head of
Discipline Professor Jonathan Newbury.
If you do not have any activities scheduled you should seek opportunities for learning such as:
• Attendance at ward rounds or other unit or clinic activities
• Reading or searching EBM data bases
• Checking case records
The Barossa Program
In the Barossa the University of Adelaide Rural Clinical School students will be co-located with 3 rd year
Flinders University Rural Clinical School (FURCS) Graduate Entry Medical Program students (GEMP). If you
have selected the Barossa you will participate in an integrated program very similar to the rural program in
other University of Adelaide rural sites. In 2012 a University of Adelaide Clinical Educator will be employed
to oversee and direct your learning and teaching activities. This position will be based in the Barossa.
Differences include:
• Your co-located Flinders Students will not have experienced a clinical placement before and will not have
had the same exposure to surgery or medicine.
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