Undergraduate teaching programme
The department leads and coordinates the teaching of clinical general practice in years
four, five and
six (the latter being the trainee intern year). The department is also involved
in the teaching of Year 2 students as part of the earlier introduction of
clinical medicine to preclinical students. Dr Tana Fishman is Director of
Undergraduate Teaching and Dr John Kennelly is the Deputy Director.
An important part of the undergraduate programme is
Community based teaching.
Postgraduate teaching programme
The department has an active programme which caters for postgraduate certificates,
diplomas, masters and doctoral degrees.
Dr Peter Huggard is Postgraduate Academic Adviser for the department. He advises
on programmes up to masters level. Associate Professor Stephen Buetow is
the adviser for PhD studies in the department.
Goodfellow Unit
Within the department, the Goodfellow
Unit
provides an important source of postgraduate continuing medical education for general
practitioners and other health professions, and has several education/research units.
Postgraduate diplomas are also taught by the Goodfellow Unit.
Dr Peter Huggard is the Director of the Goodfellow Unit. Professor Felicity Goodyear-Smith provides academic leadership of research and postgraduate teaching in the unit.
Read more about the
Goodfellow
Unit.
