| Code | Faculty |
|---|---|
| 10220122 | Faculty of Health Sciences |
| Credits | Duration |
|---|---|
| Duration of study: 1 year |
| Dr RPG Botha [email protected] | +27 (0)124203111 |
Prospective students must be in possession of a MBChB degree or equivalent qualification. South African candidates must be registered as a medical doctor with the Health Professions Council of South Africa and non-South Africans as a medical doctor with the Licensing authority in their country of origin and present acceptable documentary proof to this effect.
Note: Physicians who wish to complete only one (or a few) of the module(s), will be allowed to register for only those modules.
Assignments as prescribed by the head of department, must be submitted for each of the eight modules. If a student does not achieve at least 50%, one resubmission is permitted for each module.
A minimum final mark of 50% is required as a pass mark for each module.
An average of at least 75% in the four compulsory modules and the four elective modules is required to obtain the diploma with distinction.
Minimum credits: 160
Module content:
Study of airway; airway ventilation breathing; circulation; disorientation and evaluation.Module content:
Study of the family as the object of care; family systems theory; tools for family-oriented care; family life-cycle; ethics of treating families; family conference; the family and chronic illness; family violence and alcohol abuse in the family.Module content:
Study of human resource management; financial management; auditing of management and services management.Module content:
Study of diabetes mellitis, asthma, epilepsy, hypertension, cardiac failure, obesity and chronic pain.
Module content:
Psychiatry in family practice Study of depression, anxiety; suicide; the difficult adolescent; substance use and abuse; schizophrenia; dementia and delirium.Module content:
Introduction; study of contagious disease important to the traveller; contagious diseases in the tropical regions; viral illnesses in children; fever of unknown origin; sexually transmitted diseases; haemorrhagic fever; infective diarrhoea; meningitis; leprosy; HIV/Aids; tuberculosis; rabies; school attendance and infectious diseases; community-acquired pneumonia (GVP); acute virus hepatitis; rational use of antibiotics and other exogenous infections.Module content:
An approach to sports injuries: concepts of training and fitness; energy systems and transfer of energy, nutrition, health and training; special investigations; injury; strapping and wrapping; stress fractures; examination and clinical conditions of different areas, upper limb, lower limb, pelvis; trunk and head: special considerations of age and gender – the child, the female athlete and the elderly exerciser; exercising under certain conditions – heat, cold, underwater altitude and time zones; sport and medical conditions – diabetes mellitus; HIV/Aids; drugs, alcohol; the tired athlete; concussion/boxing; exercise induced headache and medical coverage of sports events.Minimum credits: 160
Module content:
Study of airway; airway ventilation breathing; circulation; disorientation and evaluation.Module content:
Study of the family as the object of care; family systems theory; tools for family-oriented care; family life-cycle; ethics of treating families; family conference; the family and chronic illness; family violence and alcohol abuse in the family.Module content:
Study of human resource management; financial management; auditing of management and services management.Module content:
Study of diabetes mellitis, asthma, epilepsy, hypertension, cardiac failure, obesity and chronic pain.
Module content:
Psychiatry in family practice Study of depression, anxiety; suicide; the difficult adolescent; substance use and abuse; schizophrenia; dementia and delirium.Module content:
Introduction; study of contagious disease important to the traveller; contagious diseases in the tropical regions; viral illnesses in children; fever of unknown origin; sexually transmitted diseases; haemorrhagic fever; infective diarrhoea; meningitis; leprosy; HIV/Aids; tuberculosis; rabies; school attendance and infectious diseases; community-acquired pneumonia (GVP); acute virus hepatitis; rational use of antibiotics and other exogenous infections.Module content:
An approach to sports injuries: concepts of training and fitness; energy systems and transfer of energy, nutrition, health and training; special investigations; injury; strapping and wrapping; stress fractures; examination and clinical conditions of different areas, upper limb, lower limb, pelvis; trunk and head: special considerations of age and gender – the child, the female athlete and the elderly exerciser; exercising under certain conditions – heat, cold, underwater altitude and time zones; sport and medical conditions – diabetes mellitus; HIV/Aids; drugs, alcohol; the tired athlete; concussion/boxing; exercise induced headache and medical coverage of sports events.Copyright © University of Pretoria 2023. All rights reserved.
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