MDNEW8000 Immersion in Primary Care
MDNEW8000 Immersion in Primary Care practice is the third year of the 4-year graduate Doctor of Medicine (MD) Program and follows MDNEW7000 Development of Clinical Practice. This year-long Unit builds upon all the foundational knowledge acquired in the previous two years, and embeds and enhances clinical skills and the professional identity essential for medical practice. This year-long immersion experience will provide you with the opportunity to be fully integrated into the primary care team and the wider community. You will advance your effective patient-centred and culturally safe consultation skills, acquire increasingly complex and specific communication and procedural skills, and foster a strong professional identity. You will be exposed to the full breadth of primary care medicine, seeing presentations of many common conditions and how chronic conditions are managed in the community setting. It will allow you the opportunity to follow patients on their health journey both within the community and their other health interactions with allied health professions and social services, and when practicable into secondary care experiencing the longitudinal nature of patient care. Being part of the primary care team will provide you with an opportunity to deepen your understanding of other health professional roles, experience how different teams function and the supportive space to further develop your critical reflective and leadership skills. You will experience rich and diverse interactions that will reveal the impact of inequities in health and how these can be addressed in clinics and community services based in the regional/rural primary health care context. The MD course is committed to preparing future healthcare professionals utilising a programmatic assessment system that aligns with its MD course design, ensuring a holistic view of student progress over four years. This system is consistent with principles of fairness, flexibility, equity, validity, and reliability, supported by medical education research and evaluation.
Commonwealth supported place (CSP)
A CSP is subsidised by the Australian Government and students pay a contribution amount. Each unit is classified into a band, depending on the study area of the unit (this discipline may be different from the study area of your course).
2026 contribution amount* $13,558
2026 grandfathered contribution amount^ $13,558
