Course description
The Master of Remote Health Practice is a 72-unit program which is offered by the Faculty of Health Sciences on a Commonwealth Supported basis.
Note: Full fee-paying places are available on request to students who are in receipt of a scholarship which covers fee-paying student tuition fees only.
The course articulates with the Graduate Certificate in Remote Health Practice and the Graduate Diploma in Remote Health Practice and the sequentially developed topics allow progression through the three awards. Students in the programs undertake a range of core topics and are then able to select a specialty stream in either Nursing, Medical, Allied Health, Management, Individual Practice or Remote Indigenous Oral Health.
The program was developed in collaboration with the Council of Remote Area Nurses and all three courses are offered on an external basis through the Centre for Remote Health in Alice Springs.
Students who hold the graduate certificate or the graduate diploma are granted credit for topics already taken.
PROGRAM OF STUDY [November, 2008]
Students who enrolled in the Master of Remote Health Management prior to 2007 are asked to contact the Course Coordinator, Ms Sabina Knight on (08) 8951 4700 or email: sabina.knight@flinders.edu.au
To qualify for the Master of Remote Health Practice, a student must complete 72 units with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic, according to the following program of study.
Not all topics are necessarily available in a given year.
The research project and elective topics must be chosen in consultation with the course coordinator and must be in an area relevant to the student's present or future practice.
Core topics
HLTH8201
Context of Remote Health
4.5
HLTH8202
Primary Health Care and Health Promotion
4.5
HLTH8009
Ethics, Power and Practice
6
HLTH9013
Public Health Principles and Practice
6
HLTH8210
Introduction to Research and Evidence Based Decision Making
4.5
HLTH9002
Research Methods **
9
Plus one of the following specialty streams:
NURSE PRACTITIONER
HLTH8203
Remote Advanced Nursing Practice and Pharmacotherapeutics **
9
HLTH8011
Remote Nurse Practitioner 1 - Family Nursing *
6
HLTH8207
Foundations of Remote Health Management: People, Planning and Money
4.5
HLTH9012
Remote Nurse Practitioner 2 - Chronic Disease and Ongoing Health Problems *
6
HLTH9015
Remote Nurse Practitioner 3 - Extended Practice and Professional Issues *
6
MEDICAL
HLTH8204
Remote Medical Practice 1 **
9
HLTH8012
Remote Medical Practice 2 **
6
HLTH8207
Foundations of Remote Health Management: People, Planning and Money
4.5
ALLIED HEALTH
HLTH8205
Fundamentals of Remote Allied Health Practice
4.5
HLTH8206
Remote Allied Health in Practice
4.5
HLTH8013
Remote Allied Health Practice 2 * #
6
HLTH8207
Foundations of Remote Health Management: People, Planning and Money
4.5
MANAGEMENT
HLTH8207
Foundations of Remote Health Management: People, Planning and Money
4.5
HLTH8208
Remote Health Services Organisation, Resources and Workforce
4.5
HLTH9003
Remote Health Management - Policy and Leadership *
6
HLTH9017
Remote Health Management Project
4.5
INDIVIDUAL PRACTICE
HLTH8008
Individual Practice 1 **
9
HLTH8016
Individual Practice 2 *
6
HLTH8207
Foundations of Remote Health Management: People, Planning and Money
4.5
REMOTE INDIGENOUS ORAL HEALTH
HLTH8017
Remote Indigenous Oral Health Practice 1 **
9
HLTH8018
Remote Indigenous Oral Health Practice 2 *
6
HLTH8207
Foundations of Remote Health Management: People, Planning and Money
4.5
Depending on their specialty stream students choose a further 6 to 18 units of study from the following:
HLTH8208
Remote Health Services Organisation, Resources and Workforce
4.5
HLTH9001
Health Promotion
6
HLTH9003
Remote Health Management - Policy and Leadership *
6
HLTH9004
Research Project***
12/18
HLTH9005
International Remote Health
6
HLTH9006
Health Economics
6
HLTH9010
Learning and Teaching in Clinical Practice
6
HLTH9011
Independent Project **
6
HLTH9014
Community Based Rehabilitation: Primary Health Care for People with Disabilities
6
* This topic can be taken in one semester but is also offered in two parts as two 3-unit topics. Part A (3 units) and Part B (3 units) must be undertaken in two consecutive semesters as they are taught and assessed as a continuum.
** This topic can be taken in one semester but is also offered in two parts as two 4.5-unit topics. Part A (4.5 units) and Part B (4.5 units) must be undertaken in two consecutive semesters as they are taught and assessed as a continuum.
*** The 12-unit version of this topic is also available in two parts as two semester-based topics of 6 units each while the 18-unit version is available in two parts as two semester-based topics of 9 units each. Where the topics are taken in two parts they must be completed in consecutive semesters as they are assessed as a continuum.
# Students undertaking the Allied Health specialty may select HLTH9014 Community-Based Rehabilitation: Primary Health Care for People with Disabilities in place of this topic.
Other topics may be selected from other programs within Flinders University and from other universities in consultation with the course coordinator.
Except with permission of the Faculty Board:
* the program must be completed within 12 consecutive semesters;
* no topic may be attempted more than twice.
The award of a grade of Fail (F) in 18 or more units may constitute prima facie evidence of unsatisfactory progress for the purposes of the University's Policy on Student Progress.
