SP4203 - Clinical Exercise Physiology 1 - Cardiovascular and Metabolic (Honours)

Credit points:	03
Year:	2009
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	Sch Public Health,Trop Medicine&Rehabilitation Sc

This subject addresses the pathophysiological basis of cardiac and metabolic diseases as well as the diagnosis, medical and interventional treatment of these diseases. It revises the role of exercise in the prevention of cardiac and metabolic conditions, examines the effects of exercise training on physiological and pathophysiological mechanisms, the safety of exercise in high-risk individuals, contraindications to exercise, risk assessment, the stratification, diagnostic, prognostic and prescriptive interpretation of exercise test results, and the design and supervision of exercise programs for individuals with cardiac disease.

Learning Outcomes

• Students will demonstrate knowledge of the effects of acute and chronic exercise on physiological responses and pathophysiological processes in individuals with cardiovascular and metabolic diseases;
• Students will demonstrate understanding of the procedures used to screen, assess and stratify patients with cardiovascular and metabolic diseases according to their risk of performing exercise;
• Students will possess the knowledge, skills and competencies to safely conduct cardiac exercise stress tests and to design, prescribe and implement appropriate exercise programs for individuals with cardiac diseases;
• Students will be able to describe the pathological basis for major cardiac diseases (myocardial infarction, heart failure) and the characteristic features of the incidence, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of major cardiac and metabolic diseases.

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;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner.

Prerequisites:

SP3006 AND SP3007 AND SP3008 AND SP3010 AND SP3004 AND SP3005 AND SP3011 AND SP3014

Availabilities
Townsville, Limited, Study Period 5
Census Date 08-May-2009
Face to face teaching 27-Apr-2009 to 08-May-2009
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Anthony Leicht.
Contact hours:	35 hours lectures 35 hours practicals 10 hours
Assessment:	other exams (40%); presentation and skills assessment (40%); assignment (20%).

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.