SP5103 - Clinical Exercise Physiology 1 - Cardiovascular and Metabolic

Credit points:	06
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 cardiac and metabolic diseases. It revises the role of exercise in the prevention of cardiac and metabolic diseases and 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 and metabolic diseases.

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 be able to describe the pathological basis for major cardiac and metabolic diseases (myocardial infarction, heart failure, diabetes) and the characteristic features of the incidence, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of major cardiac and metabolic diseases;
• 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 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 deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

SP4103

Availabilities
Townsville, Limited, Study Period 5
Census Date 08-May-2009
Face to face teaching 27-Apr-2009 to 05-May-2009
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Anthony Leicht.
Contact hours:	35 hours lectures 35 hours practicals 10 hours - Reading and electronic communication
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40%); quizzes or tests (40%); assignments (20%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Students must attend a 10 day intensive teaching program at the beginning of the teaching period for this subject. Students must attend any subsequent electronic communication and/or seminar/presentation activities.

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.