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 |
| TM5515:03 | Epidemiology for Public Health |
| TM5518:03 | Medical Entomology |
| ELECTIVES | |
| TM5003:03 | Nutritional Issues in Public Health (not offered in 2003) |
| TM5504:06 | Clinical Practice — Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (not offered in 2003) |
| TM5506:03 | Applied Social Sciences in Tropical Medicine (not offered in 2003) |
| TM5508:03 | Tropical Marine and Diving Medicine |
| TM5510:03 | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health |
| TM5512:03 | Travel Medicine |
| TM5514:03 | Human Health and Environmental Change |
| TM5516:03 | Biostatistics for Public Health |
| TM5519:03 | Training Primary Health Care Workers |
| TM5520:03 | Advanced Topics in Aboriginal and Islander Health (not offered in 2003) |
| TM5525:03 | Communicable Disease Control |
| TM5527:03 | Independent Project |
| TM5534:03 | Tropical Paediatrics |
| TM5536:03 | Refugee Health |
| TM5540:03 | Occupational Health (not offered in 2003) |
| TM5541:03 | Managing Effective Health Programs |