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HPER71-114: Educating the Health Workforce

Description

Throughout your career in health, there will be numerous opportunities to facilitate learning amongst your colleagues and with students. In this subject, you will examine and describe the learning needs of specific health workforces, integrate theory and learning practices to design health education, apply technologies for effective communication, and understand the importance of considering healthcare users in health education. You will also develop skills that will enable you to encourage and support learning through mentoring, supervision, and feedback amongst different health practitioners, empowering them to provide contemporary and quality healthcare in the future.

Subject details

Type: Postgraduate Subject
Code: HPER71-114
EFTSL: 0.125
Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine
Semesters offered:
  • May 2023 [Standard Offering]
  • May 2024 [Standard Offering]
Credit: 10
Study areas:
  • Health, Biomedical, and Sport Sciences
Subject fees:
  • Commencing in 2023: $5,450.00
  • Commencing in 2024: $3,300.00
  • Commencing in 2023: $5,860.00
  • Commencing in 2024: $3,300.00

Learning outcomes

  1. Examine and describe the learning needs for a specific health workforce.
  2. Integrate learning theories and practices to support learning and in developing health education.
  3. Critically reflect on supervision, mentoring and feedback as strategies to promote learning and professional growth.
  4. Apply technologies to enhance learning.
  5. Integrate the needs and expectations of healthcare users to enhance health education.
  6. Describe the use of learning practices to enhance aspects of team functioning in the health workplace.

Enrolment requirements

Requisites:

Nil

Restrictions:

Subject dates

  • Standard Offering
    Enrolment opens: 19/03/2023
    Semester start: 15/05/2023
    Subject start: 15/05/2023
    Cancellation 1: 29/05/2023
    Cancellation 2: 05/06/2023
    Last enrolment: 28/05/2023
    Withdraw - Financial: 10/06/2023
    Withdraw - Academic: 01/07/2023
    Teaching census: 09/06/2023
  • Standard Offering
    Enrolment opens: 17/03/2024
    Semester start: 13/05/2024
    Subject start: 13/05/2024
    Cancellation 1: 26/05/2024
    Cancellation 2: 29/05/2024
    Last enrolment: 24/05/2024
    Withdraw - Financial: 07/06/2024
    Withdraw - Academic: 23/06/2024
    Teaching census: 06/06/2024
Standard Offering
Enrolment opens: 19/03/2023
Semester start: 15/05/2023
Subject start: 15/05/2023
Cancellation 1: 29/05/2023
Cancellation 2: 05/06/2023
Last enrolment: 28/05/2023
Withdraw - Financial: 10/06/2023
Withdraw - Academic: 01/07/2023
Teaching census: 09/06/2023