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Professional Practice in Tropical Health (POPH90254)

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This subject is a core subject of the Graduate Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. It is designed to provide a capstone experience to help students consolidate their tropical health training via advanced professional work placement.

Students will undertake a supervised professional work placement in one or more settings and/or with an organisation appropriate to tropical health, in Australia or overseas. Each practicum experience will be individually tailored and negotiated by the student, the supervisor and the host organisation. Students will apply their academic knowledge and new skills to real-world tropical health challenges, further developing their specialist and professional skill set by contributing to the needs of an agency, institution, organisation or setting pertaining to tropical health. Each student will spend 40 hours in the selected workplace either as a block during one semester or distributed across one or two semesters.

The practicum experience will enable students to bridge the gap between the classroom and public health practice, whilst developing contacts with stakeholders and experts in the field of tropical health.

Intended learning outcomes

Upon completion of this subject, students should be able to:



  • Apply, integrate and synthesise knowledge and skills acquired throughout the course to tackle real-world tropical health challenges,
  • Analyse, evaluate and propose practical solutions to problems identified within the bounds of the project/setting,
  • Solve practical problems whilst working with potentially unstructured and incomplete information,
  • Develop professional networks within a given tropical health context,
  • Demonstrate and critically reflect upon key professional attributes sought by employers (such as communication and interpersonal skills, project management skills, team work and initiative) ,
  • Clearly communicate findings and results in a professional tropical health context.

Generic skills

Upon completion of this subject, students should have developed skills in:

  • Critical thinking and analysis,
  • Working with others,
  • Finding, evaluation and using relevant information,
  • Problem-solving,
  • Written communication.

Last updated: 3 November 2022