Australia AMC Standards for Assessment and Accreditation of Primary Medical Programs (2023) 2.3: Learning and teaching: a range of fit-for-purpose methods that promote safe, quality care in partnership with patients; interprofessional learning; skills practised before clinical application; sufficient supervised patient contact with increasing participation in care; learning about the needs of groups experiencing health inequities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Maori communities and how to address systemic disadvantage, power differentials and historical injustice; culturally safe teaching informed by First Nations knowledge systems and medicines; extensive face-to-face experiential learning across disciplines, the life cycle, prevention and treatment settings including community health, and metropolitan, regional, rural and where possible remote settings; and a pre-internship program

What does 2.3 require?

How students learn matters as much as what. The provider teaches through a mix of methods chosen for the job, each of which models safe, high quality care delivered with patients rather than to them. Students work with, learn from and learn about other health professionals through interprofessional learning that fosters collaborative practice. They develop and practise skills before using them with patients, and have enough supervised involvement with patients to reach the required level, taking on a growing share of clinical care as they progress. They come to understand the particular needs of groups facing health inequity and of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Maori communities, and how systemic disadvantage, imbalances of power and past injustice can be confronted so health services become more inclusive. Teaching is culturally safe and draws on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Maori knowledge systems and medicines. Over the program students gain a large volume of in-person experiential learning: many clinical disciplines, care at every age, settings that cover prevention and promotion as well as treatment including community health, and places that range from city to regional and rural and, wherever it can be arranged, remote. The program includes a pre-internship component.