Clinical Scholar
Clinical Scholar Pathway
Discovery 3: Integration
Discovery 3: Integration has a greater emphasis on clinical placement and experiential learning. Students select the clinical scholar pathway in line with their interest in clinical leadership, integrated clinical scholarship and health advocacy.
The topics in Discovery 3: Integration give students a choice of options to gain deeper insights into an area of interest. This subject can also be taken as a stand-alone learning experience within the MD course.
This subject is delivered as a four-week intensive and employs blended delivery and integrated experiential learning experiences.
This subject is not currently available in General Practice in 2025.
Discovery 4: Clinical scholar
Discovery 4: Clinical Scholar integrates clinical placement with scholarly output. Students have the opportunity to preference general practice as their placement discipline. Students perform clinical tasks within a general practice team and demonstrate appropriate professional practice, highlighting the role of the medical practitioner.
Clinical scholar is comprised of three placement terms (3 x 4 weeks) plus five scholarly output weeks, for a total of 17 weeks.
The Clinical Scholar output project is a 5-week intensive, spread throughout the semester. Students undertake narrative reviews or quality assurance projects. Themes for the project include mental heath, domestic and family violence, adolescent medicine, health informatics and cancer.
We have a broad range of metropolitan and rural VIC placements available. Students can undertake placement that is focused on a primary care special interest area (e.g. refugee health, sexual health, adolescent health etc.) or request to return to a previous placement clinic.
