James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

[Contents]

TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

This course is offered to medical practitioners through the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. It concentrates on the health and medical problems of tropical Australia, the western Pacific and Southeast Asia. It is offered as a full-time or part-time course. It is taught in both block and flexible delivery modes.

Students are required to successfully complete all the core subjects and at least three of the elective subjects for the award of the Postgraduate Diploma. For subjects offered, refer to Subject List Group B.

Subject List Group B

CORE
TM5501:03 Tropical Medicine
TM5502:03 Tropical Public Health
TM5503:03 Human Parasitology
TM5504:06 Clinical Practice — Objective Structured Clinical Examinations
TM5515:03 Epidemiology for Public Health
ELECTIVES
TM5003:03 Nutritional Issues in Public Health
TM5506:03 Applied Social Sciences in Tropical Medicine
TM5508:03 Tropical Marine and Diving Medicine
TM5510:03 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
TM5512:03 Travel Medicine
TM5514:03 Environmental Health
TM5516:03 Biostatistics for Public Health
TM5518:03 Entomology in Tropical Health
TM5519:03 Training Primary Healthcare Workers
TM5520:03 Advanced Topics in Aboriginal and Islander Health
TM5525:03 Disease Control
TM5527:03 Special Topic/Independent Project
TM5530:03 Immunity to Tropical Diseases
TM5534:03 Tropical Paediatrics
TM5536:03 Refugee Health
TM5538:03 Human Crisis Management for Health Personnel
TM5540:03 Occupational Health
TM5541:03 Managing Effective Health Programs

[Contents]