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Unit of Study NATM5010 - Professional Contexts in Naturopathic Medicine 1 and 2: Foundations and Conduct (2023)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    PG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    Yes

  • Enrolment information

    Students are required to attend on-campus classes and participate in online activities. Students will be required to attend on-campus classes and complete 8 observational clinical placement hours. This unit contains professional experience learning that require students to fulfill certain vaccination and compliance requirements prior to attending. As some of these can take up to 5 months to complete, you must prepare now. Failure to comply with these requirements will result in you being unable to undertake the stipulated Professional Experience Learning which may result in failure of the unit. Full details are available at www.scu.edu.au/healthplacements.

Unit description

Introduces students to the field of naturopathic medicine, including the foundations of the discipline, and the laws, ethical principles and regulatory structures governing naturopathic medicine practice.

Unit content

  1. History and philosophical foundations of naturopathic medicine
  2. Principles of naturopathic medicine I
  3. Principles of naturopathic medicine II
  4. Contemporary naturopathic medicine practice
  5. Professional conduct – law and ethics
  6. Clinical reasoning in naturopathic medicine

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Online
Term2,3
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 the historical evolution of naturopathic medicine

explain, individually or in a group, the philosophies, principles and scope of naturopathic medicine practice

illustrate the principles of professional conduct in the context of common law, human ethics and regulation

apply clinical reasoning frameworks applicable to the discipline of naturopathic medicine

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment
  • Students must wear their SCU uniform on placement, including closed-in black footwear (this does not include runners) and black trousers (cargo pants and jeans are not acceptable).

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment
  • Students must wear their SCU uniform on placement, including closed-in black footwear (this does not include runners) and black trousers (cargo pants and jeans are not acceptable).

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.