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 | Medical Entomology |
| 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 |
| TM5534:03 | Tropical Paediatrics |
| TM5536:03 | Refugee Health |
| TM5540:03 | Occupational Health |
| TM5541:03 | Managing Effective Health Programs |