Making Healthcare Work: From Home to Hospital and Back Again
Making healthcare work: From home to hospital and back again
Overview
Are you still wondering how all the parts of the healthcare system actually work together? In this Discovery, you will explore patient journeys, effective care pathways and innovative healthcare initiatives, and you will build on your understanding of community (general practice) and hospital-based care environments.
We focus on understanding the roles and responsibilities in the systems including complexities of discharge processes, patient perspectives, and common clinical pitfalls in care transfer through immersive practical placements in both general practice and your home clinical school. Teaching from subject matter experts in complex areas highlights how the health system works, including refugee health, dementia, trauma and cancer. We also explore upstream influences on health care including health system funding and leadership.
Intended Learning Outcomes
- Discuss the evidence base underpinning effective care transition and identify areas of possible future research.
- Outline programs that attempt to limit avoidable hospital admissions (including re-admissions).
- Describe a range of journeys of patients who transition between different clinical settings and subsequent health outcomes.
- Explain the experience of care between home-based and hospital-based environments by liaising with patients and their advocates.
- Explain the role and responsibilities of health practitioners in referrals and discharge planning within a complex health system.
- Identify and describe systems underpinning transitions between community and hospital-based care including range of stakeholders, common pitfalls, and effective future strategies through placement experiences.
Dates and Times
All MD Discovery 2 topics will be held during a 4-week block to be determined based on topic selection and clinical school availability.
Teaching and Learning
This topic involves a short clinical placement in a general practice/community setting and a short clinical placement at your home clinical school in weeks 2 and 3 of the subject.
Asynchronous self-paced online teaching will occur throughout the four weeks.
In weeks 1 and 4, there will be ONE (1) full day teaching session in person (Parkville) for the entire group. Hybrid teaching of these sessions will be considered for rural students to join virtually but in person attendence in Parkville is preferred.
Assessment
For assessment information, refer to the handbook link for MD Discovery 2: Application.