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 new curriculum is fully integrated with the fourth year of the program. There are two campus weeks held during the year. The lecture, tutorial and correlation clinic programs build on knowledge of the disease processes gained in Year 4 and a special emphasis is placed on management, therapeutics and practical information needed for students who will soon commence work as Interns. Individual Principal Teaching Hospitals may strengthen the structured learning experience by providing additional lectures. However the time available for such additional programs will be strictly limited so that students are not diverted from their principal work on the wards. Five 6-week attachments complete the year. For one of the six week terms, students will be attached to an emergency room and an intensive care unit at a Principal Teaching Hospital, or a selected rural hospital. The remaining terms assigned to students will complement terms completed in Year 4. One medical and one surgical attachment will be provided at the students Principal Hospital and a further term will be provided at a rural hospital. Students may request a specific program during the flexible fifth term of Year 6, providing their progress has been satisfactory. 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. 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 end of Year 6, 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.