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Healthcare Environment Evaluation (POPH90299)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
July
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Currently enrolled students:
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
- Email: Contact Stop 1
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- Further Information: MSPGH Website
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Overview
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The increased recognition of the complex, dynamic, interdisciplinary and multi-purpose nature of healthcare environments, calls for a deeper and more critical understanding of its key dimensions (physical workspaces design, virtual work-spaces and leadership & management practices). There is increasing evidence of the effects of healthcare environments on healthcare staff work (clinical and non-clinical), satisfaction, productivity, performance and health and wellbeing. Hence this subject focuses on how Healthcare Environments can better support the healthcare workforce using evaluations.
Although healthcare environment evaluation approaches and tools exist, engagement in existing evaluation approaches is limited, and the utilisation of evaluation findings in healthcare environment decision-making is variable. The subject content draws upon the fields of health program evaluation, work environmental evaluation, building design evaluation, and environmental psychology.
This Intensive Subject will run over 4 days over an 8 week period to enable students time between each day to build new knowledge and skills and to complete assessments as required.
To optimise student experiential learning opportunities, the subject adopts a modified flipped classroom approach, where: 1) students prior to lectures view and reflect upon videos on key current debates on Healthcare Environment Evaluation by academics, industry partners and healthcare practitioners; and 2) students engage with and experience subject content with tutorials focused on ‘What makes collaborative healthcare environments work?’, providing real-world insights into healthcare environment evaluation. Exemplars of healthcare environments will be studied from settings such as acute care, aged care and primary community care settings.
This interdisciplinary intensive subject is led and coordinated by the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. It will be available to graduates undertaking non-design and design courses to build their skills and knowledge to plan, design, conduct and utilise healthcare environment evaluation approaches in diverse multi-purpose healthcare settings.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject students will be able to:
- Summarise the purposes of healthcare environment evaluation in diverse work contexts.
- Describe the theoretical and methodological bases used in evaluating healthcare environments.
- Critically analyse and review traditional and non-traditional healthcare environment evaluation approaches and methods.
- Synthesise the strengths and limitations of healthcare environment evaluation for decision-making in a range of work contexts.
- Apply knowledge and skills to develop healthcare environment evaluation plan in diverse work contexts
Generic skills
- Academic writing
- Working in Groups
- Research skills
- Critical Thinking
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Corequisites
Non-allowed subjects
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Attendance at 80% of lectures and tutorials Hurdle requirement: Must meet the 80% attendance to pass the subject | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Written critical review of Three self-selected peer reviewed Journal articles on Workspace Design Evaluation. Due at the end of Day 2 of Teaching.
| Day 2 | 20% |
Collaborative Workspace Design Evaluation. For this task, students will be allocated by the Subject Coordinator, into groups of four to five (depending on total enrolments), to produce a 15 min group presentation.
| Day 4 | 20% |
Written Research Report – preparation of a Workspace Design Evaluation Plan on a self-selected work context setting
| 6 Weeks after the end of teaching | 60% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- July
Coordinator Lucio Naccarella Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2023 to 25 August 2023 Last self-enrol date 31 July 2023 Census date 11 August 2023 Last date to withdraw without fail 15 September 2023 Assessment period ends 6 October 2023 July contact information
ORCurrently enrolled students:
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
- Email: Contact Stop 1
Future Students:
- Further Information: MSPGH Website
- Email: Enquiry Form
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Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 31 January 2024