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309591 (v.1) Professional Portfolio 590


Area: School of Public Health
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 
Clinical Practice: 1 x 4 Hours Weekly
 
Syllabus: Not available until 2006. This unit involves the monitoring of the student's professional practice during the period of enrolment in the GDPHP. Each student will document their practical involvement/experience in the key areas of public health as covered by the other seven units(and the workplace attachments) they complete in the course. Evidence will be accumulated in a professional compendium. The compendium will consist of the professional journals they prepare for each of the other seven units; relevant supporting materials that are associated with the practical/work experience component of those units (e.g. reports, documents, program plans, policy documents, and intervention materials they have contributed to developing). In addition, the compendium must include a professional journal from at least one workplace attachment in the course in which the candidate gained an understanding of the historical and social determinants of health in indigenous populations and culturally secure approaches toachieving health advances. In addition they will self- monitor their progress in attaining the course competencies via an Evidence Guide.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 
Field of Education: 061399 Public Health not elsewhere classified
Funding Cluster: 06 - Computing, Built Environment, Health
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Pass/Fail

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