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Unit Summary
Pre-requisites
Principles and Practice in Lifestyle Medicine 1: Foundations
Co-requisites
Nil
Anti-requisites
Nil
Unit aim
Explores the processes and procedures used to support Lifestyle Medicine practice, with a major focus on assessment and diagnosis.
Unit content
- Clinical Processes and models of care.
- Shared medical appointments.
- Assessment in lifestyle medicine.
- Nutrition and anthropometric assessment.
- Physical activity assessment.
- Diagnostics and diagnosis in lifestyle medicine.
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: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Describe a range of clinical processes and models of care applicable to the practice of lifestyle medicine. |
| 2 | Describe the role of shared medical appointments in lifestyle medicine. |
| 3 | Analyse diverse assessment techniques applicable to lifestyle medicine. |
| 4 | Critically examine diagnostic tests and diagnostic reasoning pertinent to lifestyle medicine. |
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 texts
- No prescribed texts.