POPLHLTH 300 : Health Sector Professional Competencies
Medical and Health Sciences
2021 Semester One (1213) (15 POINTS)
Course Prescription
Course Overview
This practical, end-of-degree, capstone course develops the students' understanding of the importance of competencies in the health sector with particular attention being paid to leadership, communication, project planning and working as a part of a team. Throughout the course students critically reflect on their own competencies drawing on a range of national and international health sector competency frameworks.
The course is built around a common health sector process where funders like District Health Boards call for project proposals from providers in response to complex health challenges. The students work in teams to develop evidence-informed project proposals in response to a simulated request for proposal (RFP) process on a current real-world problem.
Capabilities Developed in this Course
| Capability 1: | Disciplinary Knowledge and Practice |
| Capability 2: | Critical Thinking |
| Capability 3: | Solution Seeking |
| Capability 4: | Communication and Engagement |
| Capability 5: | Independence and Integrity |
Learning Outcomes
- Plan, research and write a project proposal that persuasively presents an evidence-informed argument for a population-health intervention appropriate for a specified health context. (Capability 2.2, 3.2 and 3.3)
- Work effectively within a collaborative group-project environment demonstrating skills in relation to working with others, including: the ability to provide constructive feedback to others; the ability to receive feedback from others; the ability to implement changes to your own behaviour in relation to feedback received. (Capability 2.3, 4.2 and 5.1)
- Critically analyse their own level of competency in relation to the competencies expected of professionals working in the health sector and devise strategies for ongoing competency development. (Capability 2.3, 4.2 and 5.3)
- Critically examine their strengths, values, preferred communication style, and preferred approaches to learning to prepare for participating in typical personal development planning processes utilised in health sector workplaces. (Capability 2.3, 4.2 and 5.3)
- Demonstrate application of population health theories and frameworks (including change and risk management) to a real world health problem. (Capability 1.2, 2.2 and 3.2)
- Evaluate and reflect upon their ability to present and defend an argument for a response to a population health problem. (Capability 2.3, 4.1 and 5.3)
Assessments
| Assessment Type | Percentage | Classification |
|---|---|---|
| Assignment - competencies in health sector role descriptions | 10% | Individual Coursework |
| Project scope | 10% | Individual Coursework |
| Project proposal | 30% | Group Coursework |
| Critical reflection on personal development | 30% | Individual Coursework |
| Portfolio on competency development | 20% | Individual Coursework |
| 5 types | 100% |
| Assessment Type | Learning Outcome Addressed | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||
| Assignment - competencies in health sector role descriptions | ||||||||||
| Project scope | ||||||||||
| Project proposal | ||||||||||
| Critical reflection on personal development | ||||||||||
| Portfolio on competency development | ||||||||||
Workload Expectations
This course is a standard 15 point course and students are expected to spend 10 hours per week involved in each 15 point course that they are enrolled in.
For this course, you can expect 2 hours of lectures, a 2 hour workshop, 2 hours of reading and thinking about the content and 4 hours of work on assignments.
Delivery Mode
Campus Experience
Attendance is expected at scheduled activities especially the workshops (in the timetable called tutorials) to enable you to carry out the group work components of the course.
Lectures will be available as recordings. Other learning activities including the workshops (in the timetable called tutorials) will not be available as recordings.
The course will include live online events including visits from guests, group discussions and workshops.
The activities for the course are scheduled as a standard weekly timetable.
Student Feedback
At the end of every semester students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions.
Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students.
Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.
Students in the first semester of 2020 also wanted the word limit to be 3,000 instead of 2,500 for Assignment Three, the group work project proposal. This change was also implemented in the second semester and favourably received.
Other Information
This course is held at The University of Auckland Grafton Campus. Lectures are 1-3 pm on Tuesdays.
Workshops (named tutorials in your calendar) are on Tuesdays. These are an essential component of the course as you will do a large amount of your group work in these workshops. Group work is a key assessed activity in this course. You are allocated to small groups and will work with the same group in the same workshop stream throughout the semester.
- One workshop stream is 3pm - 5pm Tuesdays
- The other workshop stream is 1pm - 3 pm Wednesdays
Digital Resources
Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).
Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.
Academic Integrity
The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. This requirement also applies to sources on the internet. A student's assessed work may be reviewed against online source material using computerised detection mechanisms.
Inclusive Learning
All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.
Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website http://disability.auckland.ac.nz
Special Circumstances
If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.
If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.
This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.
Learning Continuity
In the event of an unexpected disruption we undertake to maintain the continuity and standard of teaching and learning in all your courses throughout the year. If there are unexpected disruptions the University has contingency plans to ensure that access to your course continues and your assessment is fair, and not compromised. Some adjustments may need to be made in emergencies. You will be kept fully informed by your course co-ordinator, and if disruption occurs you should refer to the University Website for information about how to proceed.
Student Charter and Responsibilities
The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html.
Disclaimer
Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.
In this course you may be asked to submit your coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. The final decision on the completion mode for a test or examination, and remote invigilation arrangements where applicable, will be advised to students at least 10 days prior to the scheduled date of the assessment, or in the case of an examination when the examination timetable is published.