In this unit, you will continue to develop your skills in recognising, diagnosing and managing patients presenting with complex and/or less commonly encountered acute and life-threatening disease processes, throughout the life span. You will integrate your developing knowledge of anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology with patient assessment, diagnostic evaluations and clinical history to formulate a provisional diagnosis. You will use this information to design and implement the most appropriate clinical management in line with contemporary industry guidelines and protocols, and emerging evidence-based practices, displaying safe, ethical and professional practice. Case-based learning combined with high fidelity simulation will contextualise your essential clinical skills, clinical decision making and problem-solving abilities.

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Feedback from SUTE Comments

Update the learning material for future offerings.

This was the final offering of PMSC12005. The learning material for this unit has been scaffolded across new units within the third year of the undergraduate paramedicine curriculum. The learning material will be recreated within these new units.

Feedback from SUTE Comments and Verbal Feedback

The example clinical simulation videos were useful.

The point-of-view clinical simulations were implemented for this offering of PMSC12005. Students have expressed that these videos were very helpful for their learning and would like these continued and integrated within more units of the paramedicine curriculum.