RURAL AND REMOTE MEDICINE
Rural and Remote Medicine studies are offered at Postgraduate Diploma and Masters levels.
Full details of the courses are outlined in the Award Requirements.
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA OF RURAL AND REMOTE MEDICINE
The Postgraduate Diploma of Rural and Remote Medicine is available as a part-time course for medical graduates, ideally in rural practice, who wish to analyse their practice and the discipline of rural practice. A total of 24 units is required.
Schedule A
| CORE | |
| MD8001:03 | Foundations of Rural or Remote Medicine: Reflections on Practice |
| MD8002:03 | Rural and Remote Medicine |
| ELECTIVES | |
| HS5001:03 | Population Health for Clinicians 1 |
| HS5002:03 | Population Health for Clinicians 2 |
| HS5003:03 | Population Health for Clinicians 3 |
| HS5004:03 | Population Health for Clinicians 4 |
| MD8003:03 | Clinical Supervision for Rural Medical Practitioners |
| MD8004:03 | Personal and Professional Challenges |
| MD8007:09 | Independent Study: Dissertation |
| MD8008:18 | Independent Project and Thesis |
| MD8009:03 | Independent Project: Writing for Publications |
| MD8010:03 | Developing Educational Programs for Health Professions |
| TM5002:03 | Infectious Diseases |
| TM5501:03 | Tropical Medicine |
| TM5502:03 | Tropical Public Health |
| TM5503:03 | Human Parasitology |
| TM5505:03 | Introduction to the Principles of Research for Public Health (not offered in 2003) |
| TM5506:03 | Applied Social Sciences in Tropical Medicine (not offered in 2003) |
| TM5507:03 | Primary Health Care (not offered in 2003) |
| TM5508:03 | Tropical Marine and Diving Medicine |
| TM5510:03 | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health |
| TM5512:03 | Travel Medicine |
| TM5513:03 | Public Health Management |
| TM5514:03 | Environmental Health |
| TM5515:03 | Epidemiology for Public Health |
| TM5516:03 | Biostatistics for Public Health |
| TM5517:03 | Advanced Technical Public Health Skills |
| TM5519:03 | Training Primary Healthcare Workers |
| TM5522:03 | Advanced Biostatistics for Public Health (not offered in 2003) |
| TM5524:03 | Qualitative Research Methods (not offered in 2003) |
| TM5525:03 | Communicable Disease Control |
| TM5526:03 | Public Health Economics (even years) |
| TM5527:03 | Independent Project |
| TM5528:03 | Health Promotion |
| TM5534:03 | Tropical Paediatrics |
| TM5536:03 | Refugee Health |
MASTER OF RURAL AND REMOTE MEDICINE
To qualify for the award of the Master of Rural and Remote Medicine the student must have:
- completed the Postgraduate Diploma of Rural and Remote Medicine, or equivalent, as determined by the Executive Dean on the advice of the Dean of the School of Medicine; and
- completed and passed a minimum of eight subjects selected from Schedule A to a minimum of 24 units. These subjects must include all core subjects as listed and at least five elective subjects as listed.
If the student has completed and passed any of the core subjects as part of the Postgraduate Diploma of Rural and Remote Medicine, then another elective subject must be chosen to replace that subject.