TM5519:03
Training Primary Health Care Workers
| Townsville | HECS Band 2 |
July block mode.
Staff: Ms M Grant (Coordinator).
This subject examines international and Australian experiences and approaches to the training of primary health workers, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers. Topics covered include: adult education, learning styles, purposes of education including competency-based training and teaching for social change; cultural diversity in training; teaching in low resource settings; assessing literacy and numeracy; instructional design including needs analyses, working from competency documents, developing learning outcomes, effective teaching, assessment techniques and evaluating educational programs.
Learning Objectives:
- to become familiar with primary health care and primary health care workers’ history and practice, including the diverse experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers in government and community controlled settings;
- knowledge of and ability to critically examine a range of adult learning and experiential learning approaches, including those currently popular in Australia;
- to develop knowledge of special learning considerations in cross cultural, low resource settings, non-English speaking settings and vocational training settings;
- plan and develop an education program for a primary health care setting;
- to be able to appropriately apply a range of innovative teaching methods.
Assessment by seven in-course assignments (40%); in-course presentation (30%); after-course project (30%).