What has WAMSS been doing for you lately? Representation, that's what.
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Education Forum - UWA Course Structure Review |
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This week's forum looks at the implications of the proposed UWA Course Structure recommendations. Following an 18 month process in which over a hundred submissions from Faculties, student bodies, professional bodies, individuals and Government Departments were received, the final review was tabled at the UWA Academic Council on September 24th. Whilst 31 recommendations have been made, perhaps the most significant involve culling the current 40
undergraduate degrees and replacing them with 5 broad 3 year
undergraduate degrees (Bachelors in Arts, Health, Science, Commerce and
Fine Arts) and changing all vocational undergraduate degrees post
graduate masters or professional doctorate courses (such as medicine,
law and engineering).
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 05 October 2008 )
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WAMSS Student Reports are now available on the WAMSS website. To view the reports your representatives present to the Medical Curriculum Council, click here. Also available are the Education portfolio reports that are presented at the monthly WAMSS Committee Meetings. To learn more about the educational committees WAMSS sits on within the Faculty, and how you can influence change at these committees visit the education section of the WAMSS website.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 September 2008 )
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Education Forum - Rural Week: What for the future? |
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This week’s
educational forum topic examines an issue that is likely to come up for
discussion at the Faculty’s annual retreat in December: Rural Week. Those of you
in your clinical years will remember which much nostalgia the heady days of
your first semester in the MBBS course when, at the expense of the Faculty, we
were carted off to the ends of the state for our first experience of rural
medicine. You may be aware that those students currently in years 1 to 3 have
not had the privilege of such an experience. Rural week officially ‘dies’ at
the end of the year when the Graduate Program removes it from their 2009
curriculum.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 18 September 2008 )
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Education Forum - Dr YES: Is it porn? |
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Welcome to the first edition of the education forum. Each week a new topic that in some shape or form relates to your education will be posted on the WAMSS forum where students can freely post comments. In light of Year 3 to 6 having PPD assessments due at the end of this week, this week's topic has an ethical focus. In a recent article in the Sunday Times, the Dr YES program was accused of being 'pornography'. So read the Sunday Times article (pornography_in_the_classroom) and get to the 'your education' section of the forum and answer the question: Is Dr YES porn?
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Last Updated ( Monday, 15 September 2008 )
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WAMSS Makes Comment on Convention Registration |
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To read what WAMSS had to say on the Convention Registration issue, Click Here!!!
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and we will make sure your voice is heard at AMSA National Council.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 September 2008 )
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