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 |
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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
- More information link
- View more information about this paper on the Postgraduate Programmes in Child Health website
- 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