TM5501 - Tropical Medicine

Credit points:	03
Year:	2009
Student Contribution Band:	Band 3
Administered by:	Sch Public Health,Trop Medicine&Rehabilitation Sc

This subject covers the aetiology, diagnosis, management and prevention of common tropical diseases with special reference to Australasia and Southeast Asia, including helminthic, protozoan, rickettsial, bacterial, viral and other diseases. It includes lectures and demonstrations of some common tropical parasites and conditions. Anaemia, heat illness and other selected topics, are presented in lectures. Immunisation is also presented.

Learning Outcomes

• have an understanding of some of the common tropical diseases and problems relevant to Australasia, Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific region, which are of interest to health professionals;
• have an understanding of the microbiological, entomological and parasitic agents underlying these tropical diseases;
• appreciate the diagnosis, management and prevention of tropical diseases of global importance (i.e. to the World Health Organization).

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to appraise information critically;
• The ability to use independent judgment to synthesise information to make intellectual and/or creative advances;
• The ability to place their research in a broader (preferably international)theoretical, practical and policy context.;
• The ability to think laterally and be original;
• The ability to conceptualise and evaluate a range of potential solutions to relevant problems;
• The ability to make constructive contributions to project teams or collegial activities;
• The potential to resolve conflicts.

Availabilities
External, Study Period 1
Census Date 27-Mar-2009
Coordinator:	Professor Peter Leggat, Professor Richard Speare
Lecturers:	Professor Peter Leggat, Professor Richard Speare, Assoc. Professor Wayne Melrose.
Contact hours:	60 hours lectures - external mode is equivalent to 60 lectures
Method of Delivery:	and CDROMPrinted materials
Assessment:	other exams (75%); assignments (25%).
Townsville, Block, Study Period 8
Census Date 21-Aug-2009
Face to face teaching 27-Jul-2009 to 07-Aug-2009
Coordinator:	Professor Peter Leggat, Professor Richard Speare
Lecturers:	Professor Peter Leggat, Professor Richard Speare, Assoc. Professor Wayne Melrose.
Contact hours:	60 hours lectures
Assessment:	other exams (75%); assignments (25%).

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