Education & Training

• To acquire core knowledge of medical conditions that are frequently seen in hospitalised patients in the General Medicine department
• To attain proficiency in history taking and examination techniques in the hospitalised medical patient
• To attain proficiency in medical procedures (lumbar puncture, bone marrow aspiration, abdominal paracentesis, pleural taps, joint aspiration)
• To attain clinical competency in managing acute medical emergencies commonly encountered in hospital practice
• To attain clinical competency in managing a wide variety of chronic and complex medical conditions and their complications
• To learn effective interpersonal and communication skills including difficult issues such as resuscitation status, futility, withholding or withdrawing therapy, informed consent, educating patients, working within multidisciplinary teams as members
• To learn the basics of evidence based medicine and its application in day to day clinical practice
• To learn effective skills which facilitate safe and seamless transitions of care

Continual assessment will be based on the following:

• Bi-Monthly Mini-CEX (Mini-Clinical Examination).
• Bi-Monthly patient care competency based evaluation for each rotation.
• Training Log Book: Review of case and procedure log, self-studying hours

A final examination will be conducted at the end of the course and will consist of the following components. The passing score should be 50% or more.

• Internal Medicine In-Training Examination