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College THEMES
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Statement of purpose
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Developmental and Mental Health
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To manage development, and the nervous system, from birth to senescence
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This focus area will advance understanding and management of:
- Developmental disabilities
- Early childhood intervention
- Mental and behavioural disorders
- Nervous system disorders
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Lifestyle and Environment
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To manage non-communicable diseases for long and healthy life
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This focus area will advance:
- Health promotion
- Illness prevention
- Management of non-communicable diseases
- Understanding and management of risk factors at individual and community level
- Environmental determinants of disease
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Trauma, emergency and Rehabilitation
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To optimise emergency care, trauma treatment, post-operative care, and rehabilitation
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This focus area will advance:
- On-scene treatment and transport
- Forensic aspects of trauma management
- Trauma management
- Rehabilitation and reintegration into society
- Public health aspects of trauma
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Infectious diseases
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To generate a greater understanding of HiV and Tb to optimise quality of life for immune-compromised patients
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This focus area will advance:
- Prevention of infectious diseases
- Understanding the molecular basis of diseases
- Drug discovery and optimising drug treatment (adherence)
- Forensic challenges for HIV and TB infected patients
- Nursing care for HIV and TB patients
- Surgery involving patients with HIV and TB
- Public health aspects of HIV and TB patients
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Applied Health Care (and Health Systems)
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To inform policy and shape and strengthening systems
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This focus area will advance:
- Achieving the Millenium development goals and the DoH ten-point plan
- Reengineering of primary health care
- Implementation of NIH
- Skills mix and task-shifting
- Human Resources for health.
- Clinical health provision for decentralised health care.
- Traditional health care (AKS)
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Health Sciences Education
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To promote excellence in teaching and learning and implement best practice in health sciences education and training
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This focus area will advance:
- Academic development and support of students within the Health Sciences
- Capacity development of staff in health sciences related pedagogy.
- The use of technology in teaching and learning
- Competency based curricula.
- Cognitive based aspects of clinical reasoning
- Community/rural based service learning for social justice
- Medical terminology in a multilingual society
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