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Unit of Study NATM5009 - Clinical Studies in Naturopathic Medicine 7: Multi-morbidity and Complex Cases (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    PG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    Students are required to attend on-campus classes and participate in online activities. Prior knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, botanical medicine and nutritional medicine is required.

Unit description

Integrates knowledge and skills in clinical sciences, naturopathic therapeutics, interdisciplinary care and clinical reasoning in order to safely and effectively assess, diagnose, plan, treat and review multimorbid clinical cases, in diverse clinical settings, within the scope of contemporary naturopathic medicine practice.

Unit content

  1. Complex therapeutic interactions
  2. Multi-morbidity I
  3. Multi-morbidity II
  4. Acute care
  5. Aged care
  6. Palliative care

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Gold Coast
Term2,4
Term2,4

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:

illustrate complex herb-drug-nutrient interactions

integrate clinical sciences, appropriate therapeutic applications and interdisciplinary care in multi-morbidity cases

relate different models of care and scope of practice within specialised healthcare settings

apply clinical reasoning to a multi-morbidity clinical case in a specialised setting

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