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Unit of Study HLTH5007 - Principles & Practice of Lifestyle Medicine 2: Clinical Processes (2024)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    PG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

Explores the processes and procedures used to support Lifestyle Medicine practice, with a major focus on assessment and diagnosis.

Unit content

  1. Clinical processes and models of care.
  2. Shared medical appointments.
  3. Assessment in lifestyle medicine.
  4. Nutrition and anthropometric assessment.
  5. Physical activity assessment.
  6. Diagnostics and diagnosis in lifestyle medicine.

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Online
Term2
N/A

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Describe a range of clinical processes and models of care applicable to the practice of lifestyle medicine.

Describe the role of shared medical appointments in lifestyle medicine.

Analyse diverse assessment techniques applicable to lifestyle medicine.

Critically examine diagnostic tests and diagnostic reasoning pertinent to lifestyle medicine.

Prescribed learning resources

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