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Relevant Auckland MBChB Learning Outcomes

Health and Society: medical graduate as a health advocate
3.5: Explain and evaluate common population health screening and prevention approaches, including the use of technology for surveillance and monitoring of the health status of populations. Explain environmental and lifestyle health risks and advocate for healthy lifestyle choices.
MBChB Graduate Learning Outcomes
 Clinical and Communication Skills
 •  Competently inform and educate patients and their families.
 Population Health
 •  Identify feasible strategies to improve health that incorporate the broader determinants of health at community and population level;
 •  Apply the principles of health promotion, population screening and disease management involving individuals and populations to a range of health care settings.
MBChB 221: Respiratory System
 Population Health
11List the main risk factors that contribute to the common respiratory diseases.
12List the main environmental risk factors that contribute to differing rates of respiratory diseases in different communities.
MBChB 221: Cardiovascular System
 Applied Science for Medicine
3 •  Describe the multiple factors that influence the heart and cardiovascular function under normal and pathologic conditions.
 Population Health
12Describe the prevalence, distribution and trends in incidence of selected cardiovascular diseases in community subgroups and the population in New Zealand.
13List the main risk factors that contribute to the common cardiovascular diseases.
14List the main environmental risk factors that contribute to differing rates of cardiovascular diseases in different communities.
 Hauora Māori
15Identify the prevalent cardiovascular conditions in the Māori population, and feasible strategies for their prevention.
MBChB 221: Genitourinary System
 Hauora Māori
8Identify the factors that affect the incidence of the genitourinary diseases in Māori and compare with those of other populations.
 Population Health
9Identify the factors that affect the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases in the population and community groups in New Zealand.
MBChB 321: Blood, Immunity and Infection
 Hauora Māori
9Establish reasons why selected infectious diseases are more prevalent in Māori and compare with other ethnic communities.
 Population Health
10Explain the reasons for population-based vaccination programmes targeted against selected infectious diseases.
11Identify factors that affect vaccine efficacy at both individual and population levels.
MBChB 321: Professional and Clinical Skills 2
 Population Health
16 •  Outline behaviours that adversely impact on health and describe interventions to alter behaviours at both the level of the population and the individual
 •  Describe the factors that influence the effectiveness of patient education
MBChB 401: General Practice
 Hauora Māori
6 •  Identify strategies to overcome barriers with a view to improving Māori health outcomes.
 Population Health
7 •  Outline the New Zealand Health Strategy;
 •  Identify areas in which to use health promotion, prevention and screening techniques
MBChB 401: General Surgery
 Hauora Māori
8 •  Identify strategies to overcome barriers with a view to improving Māori health outcomes.
 Population Health
9Suggest evidence-based population health approaches that would reduce the burden of diseases requiring surgery.
MBChB 401: General Medicine
 Population Health
8 •  Outline the medical conditions that significantly contribute to morbidity in the New Zealand context.
 •  Suggest evidence based public health approaches that would reduce the burden of medical diseases.
MBChB 401: Specialty Medicine
 Population Health
7 •  Suggest evidence based public health approaches that would reduce the burden of medical diseases.
MBChB 401: Geriatrics
 Population Health
8Suggest evidence- based population health approaches that would reduce the burden of medical diseases in older people.
 •  Outline the medical conditions that significantly contribute to morbidity in the New Zealand context.
MBChB 401: Formal Learning Yr 4
 Obesity
• Discuss the most common causes and associated risk factors for obesity in our society
 Gastroenterology
 •  Explain the impact of selected GI conditions on population health, the role of population screening in GI cancers and the importance of advocating for health promotion to reduce the risk of disease.
 Urology and Prostate Cancer
 •  Explain the pros and cons of screening for prostate cancer.
MBChB 401: Synchronous Learning Yr 4
 Clinical and Communication Skills
 •  Address broader issues such as risk factors, primary and secondary prevention for common and important medical and surgical conditions.
MBChB 501: General Practice
 Population Health
10 •  Identify areas where health promotion, prevention and screening techniques are appropriate.
 •  Describe methods of defining practice population profiles and their specific needs.
MBChB 501: Obstetrics & Gynaecology
 Population Health
13 •  Communicate understanding of the Cervical Screening Programme in NZ.
MBChB 501: Paediatrics
 Population Health
11 •  Identify and advise on disease prevention (understands key risk factors, the benefits and harm of screening for risks and early disease, continuity of care and management in community).
MBChB 551: General Practice
 Applied Science for Medicine
 •  Basic principles are used to detect cancer in early stages.
MBChB 551: General Medicine
 Population Health
 •  Relevant preventative medicine strategies are incorporated into daily practice – emphasis on vaccinations, smoking cessation, cardiovascular risk assessment and preventative strategies.
MBChB 551: Obstetrics and Gynaecology
 Population Health
 •  Techniques, uses and limitations of screening within O&G, including cervical screening and screening for fetal abnormality.
MBChB 551: Paediatrics
 Population Health
 •  Poverty, social and economic policies impacting on child health are identified.
 •  Factors contributing to risk taking behaviour, drug abuse and suicide in the child and adolescent population are summarised.
 •  Special complexities and specific concerns for adolescent health services are outlined.
MBChB 551: Psychiatry
 Population Health
 •  Principles of population screening for depression, anxiety, psychosis and substance abuse and their health promotion at a national level.
MBChB 551: Emergency Medicine
 Population Health
 •  The Ministry of Health screening guidelines are applied for patients in ED settings who may present with domestic violence, elder abuse and neglect, child abuse and neglect, smoking and drug and alcohol abuse.
MBChB 551: Clinical Imaging
 Population Health
 •  Role of imaging in screening and epidemiology.