TM5519 - Training Primary Health Care Workers

[Offered in even-numbered years]

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:

This subject examines international and Australian experiences and aproaches 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 Outcomes

• know of a range of adult learning and experiential learning approaches;
• develop knowledge of special learning considerations in cross-cultural, low resource settings and non-English speaking settings;
• plan an education program for a primary health care setting;
• become familiar with a range of innovative teaching methods;
• has insight into primary health care and primary health care workers history, thought and practice.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• An understanding of the economic, legal, ethical, social and cultural issues involved in the use of information;
• The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion.

Availabilities
, , Study Period 6
Census Date 07-Jul-2006
Face to face teaching 17-Jul-2006 to 28-Jul-2006
Coord/Lect:	pumag.
Contact hours:	30 hours 13 hours 13 hours
Assessment:	(20%); (50%); (30%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.