Objectives: To build on the student's experiences in Years 4 and 5 of the course. To ensure that during clinical attachments in Year 6 students are capable of accepting additional responsibility within clinical teams. To ensure a smooth transition from medical student to Intern. To integrate knowledge and skills gained in the previous three years, so that the student s assessment, documentation and management of clinical problems is sufficiently mature and rounded to warrant graduation and provisional registration. To have students leave medical school committed to the importance of continued medical education. Year 6 of the curriculum is fully integrated with the fourth year of the program. As in Year 4, clinical attachments provide an opportunity for learning on the job and the steady increase in the responsibility for patient management will be given to students as their experience and proven performance suggests that this is appropriate. On the wards, a significant emphasis will be placed on mastering procedural skills, therapeutics and such practical matters as interaction with ancillary medical staff and discharge planning. Five 8-week attachments complete the year. For one of the terms, students will be attached to an emergency room and an intensive care unit at a Principal Teaching Hospital. One medical and one surgical attachment will be provided at the student's Principal Hospital. The fourth term prior to the final examinations will comprise a mix of rural experience and geriatrics. Following the final examinations, students will complete the last term of Year 6 as a preparation for internship (PRINT). This will comprise two 4-week clinical attachments with limited coursework to ensure students are ready to commence internship.

Assessment: For students to be eligible to sit the final examinations they must have performed satisfactorily in each of the Year 6 clinical attachments. At the Year 6 examinations, students will be assessed by means of a focused clinical case examination, a free ranging viva voce examination and a Multiple Choice Examination involving questions related to medicine, surgery, population health and clinical pharmacology. All three components of this examination must be passed. Students will need to satisfactorily complete the PRINT term.