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    Overview

    Community aspects of child health and child health services.

    Health professionals who provide child health services, including general practitioners, child health nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists may take this paper as a Certificate of Proficiency (COP).

    About this paper

    Paper title Community Child Health
    Subject Child Health
    EFTS 0.2
    Points 30 points
    Teaching period(s) 1st Non standard period (5 February 2024 - 30 June 2024) (Distance learning)
    2nd Non standard period (22 July 2024 - 30 November 2024) (Distance learning)
    Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) $2,482.60
    International Tuition Fees Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website.
    Restriction
    CHHX 701
    Limited to
    DCH, MHealSc, PGDipHealSc
    Notes
    A compulsory paper for DCH; may also be taken by other approved health professionals.
    Eligibility
    CHHE 701 is part of the Postgraduate Diploma in Child Health (DCH). Allied health professionals are eligible to enrol for CHHE 701 on its own as a Certificate of Proficiency (COP).
    Contact

    Paper Administrator

    Women's and Children's Health

    Email: childhealth.distance@otago.ac.nz

    Tel: 03 470 9541

    Tel: Ask Otago: 0800 808 098

    Teaching staff

    Course Convenor: Dr Gloria Dainty

    The teaching staff are a team of experts, drawn from the clinical medical schools of the University of Otago and beyond.

    Paper Structure
    This is a distance-taught paper covering community aspects of child health and child health services.
    Teaching Arrangements

    This Distance Learning paper is taught remotely.

    Consisting of hour-long Wednesday evening audioconferences conducted weekly over 16 weeks. Internet access is needed for access to Zoom and additional teaching and reading material, which is available on Moodle.

    Textbooks

    No compulsory text

    Graduate Attributes Emphasised
    Interdisciplinary perspective, lifelong learning, communication, critical thinking.
    View more information about Otago's graduate attributes.
    Learning Outcomes

    The goals of the paper are

    • To provide opportunity for postgraduate students from a range of disciplines, including medicine, to study community child health
    • To help place the clinical component of the Diploma in Child Health in a community context
    • To complement the clinical, hospital-based part of the Diploma in Child Health requirements with formal teaching in some aspects of community child health

    Timetable

    1st Non standard period (5 February 2024 - 30 June 2024)

    Location
    Dunedin
    Teaching method
    This paper is taught through Distance Learning
    Learning management system
    Moodle

    2nd Non standard period (22 July 2024 - 30 November 2024)

    Location
    Dunedin
    Teaching method
    This paper is taught through Distance Learning
    Learning management system
    Moodle
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