Table 2.
Discipline areas of medicine and specific topic areas covered within compulsory intellectual disability content
| Schools N |
Units N |
|
|---|---|---|
| Discipline Areaa | ||
| Paediatrics | 9 | 11 |
| Otherb | 6 | 7 |
| General Practice | 4 | 7 |
| Psychiatry | 3 | 5 |
| Women’s health | 2 | 2 |
| Other specialist medicinec | 1 | 8 |
| Sexual health | 1 | 1 |
| Emergency Medicine | 1 | 1 |
| Topic Aread | ||
| Clinical assessment skills | 9 | 27 |
| Clinical management skills | 9 | 21 |
| Ethics and legal issues | 8 | 20 |
| Chronic and complex health issues | 8 | 17 |
| Interdisciplinary team work | 8 | 12 |
| Preventative health | 7 | 10 |
| Disability and health care systems | 6 | 20 |
| Human rights issues | 6 | 16 |
aSix compulsory units were offered which covered two or more discipline areas
bIncludes: Disability studies, human development, professional development, societal aspects of intellectual disability
cIncludes: cardiovascular, endocrinology, genetics, head and neck, musculoskeletal, neurosciences, obstetrics, rehabilitation
d28 units were offered which covered two or more topic areas
N.B. Data from one school was unavailable