Relevant Auckland MBChB Learning Outcomes
Health and Society: medical graduate as a health advocate
3.6: Describe a systems approach to improving the quality and safety of healthcare.
3.6: Describe a systems approach to improving the quality and safety of healthcare.
MBChB 3: Professional and Clinical Skills 2
| Applied Science for Medicine | |
|---|---|
| 5 | • Explain the principles of evidence-based practice |
| • Distinguish between the concepts of quality and safety | |
| • Describe the principles of safe work practices | |
| • Propose actions a healthcare ‘team’ might take to prevent adverse events |
MBChB 3: Quality and Safety Project
| Clinical and Communication Skills | |
|---|---|
| • Explain the concepts of error and violation in healthcare. | |
| • Outline the extent and nature of iatrogenic harm in healthcare. | |
| • Explain the difference between a person-oriented and a systems-oriented approach to an adverse event in healthcare. | |
| • List the main dimensions of quality in healthcare and discuss the basic issues related to each of these. | |
| • Explain the use of root cause analysis as a tool to analyse adverse events and improve safety and quality in healthcare. | |
| • Discuss the actions a healthcare ‘team’ might take to prevent adverse events in healthcare. |
MBChB 4: General Practice
| Clinical and Communication Skills | |
|---|---|
| 3 | • Summarise the roles, responsibilities and linkages of those contributing to a primary health care team. |
MBChB 4: General Surgery
| Population Health | |
|---|---|
| 9 | Suggest evidence-based population health approaches that would reduce the burden of diseases requiring surgery. |
MBChB 5: General Practice
| Personal and Professional Skills | |
|---|---|
| 6 | • Explain how and when other health professionals need to contribute to the care of a patient. |
| Population Health | |
| 10 | • Identify the impact of regional variation in health care provision. |
| • Describe methods of defining practice population profiles and their specific needs. |
MBChB 5: Psychiatry
| Population Health | |
|---|---|
| 11 | • Identify major threats to mental health and critique trends in healthcare delivery in New Zealand and internationally. |
| 12 | • Apply the principles of mental health promotion, population screening and disease management involving individuals and populations to a range of healthcare settings. |
MBChB 6: General Practice
| Personal and Professional Skills | |
|---|---|
| • Competency is developed in transfer of care to medical and other healthcare teams. | |
| Population Health | |
| • The role of general practice and its integration with the wider health care network is articulated, including regional variations in healthcare provision; health promotion and prevention appropriate for the community; major primary health care targets. |
MBChB 6: General Medicine
| Personal and Professional Skills | |
|---|---|
| • Familiarity with local hospital practices relevant to the practice of medicine is demonstrated. |
MBChB 6: Obstetrics and Gynaecology
| Hauora Māori | |
|---|---|
| • Clinical audit is used to identify and address healthcare inequities. |
MBChB 6: Paediatrics
| Population Health | |
|---|---|
| • Poverty, social and economic policies impacting on child health are identified. |
MBChB 6: Psychiatry
| Population Health | |
|---|---|
| • Improvements in public health mental services through reflection on current delivery models of mental health care. |
MBChB 6: General Surgery
| Personal and Professional Skills | |
|---|---|
| • Key factors in the continuity of patient care are demonstrated (preoperative, operative, postoperative and discharge). |