Postgraduate Public Health and Tropical Medicine
HQporner Inherent Requirements for Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (74204), Master of Public Health (72504)*, Master of Public Health - Master of Business Administration (109804), Master of Public Health - Master of Global Development (122204), Graduate Diploma of Health Promotion (103007), Graduate Diploma of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (73707), Graduate Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (73807), Graduate Certificate of Disaster Health and Humanitarian Assistance (76811), Graduate Certificate of Health Promotion (103011), Graduate Certificate of Public Health (101811) and Graduate Certificate of Travel Medicine (73511)
*For Master of Public Health (72504) – Aeromedical Retrieval Major, see also the Inherent Requirements for Graduate Certificate of Aeromedical Retrieval (76511).
HQporner is committed to enhancing student access, participation and success in higher education and embracing the diversity of the communities we serve. The inherent requirements listed for each course are designed to assist prospective students and all current students to make informed decisions for study.
Inherent requirements
Inherent requirements are the identified abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours that must be demonstrated, during the learning experience, to successfully complete a course. These abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours preserve the academic integrity of the University’s learning, assessment, and accreditation processes, and where applicable, meet the standards of a profession.
Reasonable adjustments
HQporner assists students who are experiencing a disability to participate in these courses, and achieve the inherent requirements of the course, on the same basis as someone who is not experiencing a disability. To do this, HQporner works with our students and placement providers to develop agreed reasonable adjustments in accordance with the Student Disability Policy.
A reasonable adjustment is an arrangement, support, or modification, agreed in an Access Plan to enable participation in learning and achievement of course requirements. Contact HQporner’s Accessibility Services to discuss possible adjustments. Please note that the process of negotiating and implementing reasonable adjustments may take several weeks.
In assessing whether an adjustment is reasonable, the University is entitled, in accordance with the Disability Education Standards, to maintain the inherent requirements of a course. If inherent requirements cannot be met with reasonable adjustments, the University provides guidance regarding other study options.
How to interpret the inherent requirements
Inherent requirements are presented below as domains and sub-domains and contain the following information:
- The definition of the inherent requirement
- A rationale as to why it is an inherent requirement
- Examples of the knowledge, skills, and capabilities that are required to satisfy the inherent requirements of these courses.
The inherent requirements for these courses should be read in conjunction with the Course and Subject Handbook.
The inherent requirements of the Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Master of Public Health, Master of Public Health - Master of Business Administration, Master of Public Health - Master of Global Development, Graduate Diploma of Health Promotion, Graduate Diploma of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Graduate Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Graduate Certificate of Disaster Health and Humanitarian Assistance, Graduate Certificate of Health Promotion, Graduate Certificate of Public Health and Graduate Certificate of Travel Medicine are:
Inherent Requirement | Compliance with Australian Law and professional regulations. |
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Rationale | Knowledge, understanding, and compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements are necessary in order to reduce the risk of harm to self and others in clinical and related settings; compliance with these professional regulations and the Australian Law ensures students are both responsible and accountable for their practice. |
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Inherent Requirement | Ethical & professional behaviour in academic, clinical and professional environments |
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Rationale | Compliance with standards, codes, guidelines and policies that facilitates safe, competent interactions and relationships for students and the people they engage with in the many environments of practice is required for the physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual wellbeing of all. |
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Inherent Requirement | Compliance with safe practice sufficient to meet professional performance, including considerations of current scope of practice, workplace health and safety and infection control and alarm system responsiveness. |
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Rationale | Compliance with current scope of practice, workplace health and safety, infection control considerations and effective and timely response to alarm systems are required to provide safe environments for students, staff and others. |
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Knowledge and cognitive skills
Inherent Requirement | Knowledge acquisition, utilisation and retention spanning and drawing together all coursework subjects. Cognitive skills for focus, memory, attention to detail, theoretical deliberation, and practical functioning sufficient to meet professional performance. |
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Rationale | Understanding and retention of coursework information and the effective processing of this information is required for appropriate, safe and effective professional performance. |
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Metacognition
Inherent Requirement | Awareness of own thinking, and skills to reflect, evaluate, adapt and implement new cognitive strategies for improved learning and professional performance. |
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Rationale | Understanding and ongoing learning about oneself as an instrument in professional performance is required for safe and effective delivery of professional performance. |
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Inherent Requirement | English literacy skills to allow the creation and interpretation of clear meaning for professional performance through a range of symbols and English language text. |
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Rationale | Information can be delivered by many different modes and competent literacy skills for these are essential to provide appropriate, safe and effective delivery of professional performance. |
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Inherent Requirement | Accurate processing and reasoning with numbers and numerical concepts for professional performance. |
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Rationale | Competent reasoning and reliable accuracy with numerical concepts are essential for safe and effective professional performance. |
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Verbal communication
Inherent Requirement | Ability to interact with verbal communication in English to a standard that allows clear and comprehensible two-way interactions for professional performance. |
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Rationale | Effective interaction with spoken English from university, professional and clinical staff as well as peers is required for effective learning and to provide safe and effective professional performance. |
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Non-verbal communication
Inherent Requirement | Non-verbal communication skills that enable respectful communication with others to meet professional performance. |
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Rationale | The ability to recognise, interpret and respond to non-verbal cues, to communicate with congruent and respectful non-verbal behaviour, and to be sensitive to individual and/or cultural variations in non-verbal communication are required for safe and effective professional interactions. |
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Written communication
Inherent Requirement | Ability to produce English text to a standard that provides clear and professional-level communication, with a language usage and style that is tailored to the targeted recipients. |
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Rationale | Effective communication in English text is required to demonstrate applied skills in academic writing conventions and in sustained and organised academic argument and provide safe and effective professional performance. |
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Visual
Inherent Requirement | Ability to interact with visual inputs sufficiently to manage learning environments and to meet professional performance needs. |
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Rationale | Elements in the teaching, learning and working environment are delivered by visual means, and the ability to learn from or respond to these inputs is required to provide safe and effective professional performance. |
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Auditory
Inherent Requirement | Ability to interact with auditory inputs sufficiently to manage learning environments and to meet professional performance. |
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Rationale | Elements in the learning and working environments are delivered by auditory means, and the ability to learn from or respond to these inputs is required to provide safe and effective professional performance. |
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Tactile
Inherent Requirement | Ability to respond to tactile input sufficiently to meet professional performance needs. |
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Rationale | Elements in the working environment are detected and measured by tactile means, and the ability to learn from or respond to these inputs is required for safe and effective professional performance. |
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Gross motor
Inherent Requirement | Strength, range of motion, coordination and mobility sufficient to meet professional performance needs. |
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Rationale | A range of physical actions in a time-constrained environment is required to provide safe and effective professional performance. |
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Fine motor
Inherent Requirement | Manual dexterity and fine motor skills sufficient to meet professional performance needs. |
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Rationale | A wide range of fine-motor manual tasks in a time-constrained environment are required for safe and effective professional performance. |
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Inherent Requirement | Sustained physical, cognitive and psychosocial performance sufficient for safe and complete professional performance in a time-constrained environment. |
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Rationale | A range of complex, multi-component or extended practice tasks carried out over a period of time and in a time-constrained environments is required for safe and effective professional performance. |
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Inherent Requirement | Behaviour that adapts to changing situations sufficiently for safe and complete practice, and instigates self-care consistent with professional expectations. |
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Rationale | Behavioural adaptability is required to manage personal emotional responses as an individual and within teams in changing and unpredictable environments. Students will also be required to adapt their behaviour appropriately during times of additional stressors in their own lives, whether this adaptation involves ways of continuing to engage with their role or withdrawing for self-care for a period. |
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