Master’s Mapping Exercise
This is Attachment One to AFPHM Eligibility Form
This template is to be used by applicants as the first part of a two-stage process to
enter the Advanced Training Program with the Australasian Faculty of Public Health
Medicine. Its purpose is to map the content of their Masters Degrees to the Faculty’s
core content areas.
Once completed, the full application form should be forwarded by the applicant
Mapping Exercise
Information
to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians at the following address:
Education Services
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians
145 Macquarie Street
SYDNEY NSW 2000
Ph: 02 8247 6286
Please submit the signed original Application form to the college.
You are advised to retain a copy of the completed form for your records.
Fax and scanned copies will not be accepted.
The Faculty Teaching and Learning Subcommittee will review the completed form and
provide written notification to the Applicant to indicate their eligibility status. The
second part of the application process will require eligible candidates to secure a
suitable training position, and submit an Application to Commence Training form.
A pre-requisite for entry into the Advanced Training program is that Trainees
must have completed, or are enrolled in, a Master of Public Health (or
comparable Master’s degree), which includes the Faculty's core discipline areas of:
1. Epidemiology
2. Biostatistics
3. Health Protection (includes Environmental health and/or communicable
disease prevention and control)
4. Health Promotion
5. Health Policy, Planning or Management
1. Please complete the top of the table with details of your Master’s degree/s,
including:
Instructions for
Completing this Form
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Your name
University of study
Name of the Degree program
Whether the degree is complete. If the degree is not complete, please indicate
when you expect it to be completed.
2. Please map the modules you have studied against each content area. Please
include:
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The title and subject number of the module;
Whether the module is complete. If the module is not complete, please indicate
when you expect it to be completed;
A short description of the content of the module.
The more detailed information you can provide, the easier it is for the Committee to
make a decision (please see attached example).
3. A copy of your academic transcript must be included when submitting the template.
If you have not yet completed the degree, please attach an interim transcript indicating
your progress to date.
4. Please delete the example pages from the form prior to submitting. The example
pages are those with red font.
EXAMPLE TEMPLATE
Content Area
Example
Dr X
Masters of Public Health
X University
Completed in 2005
Epidemiology
Module: Introduction to Epidemiology (7854)
Complete
Complete
Incomplete – expected date of completion:
Contents: rates, sources of data, descriptive & analytical
epidemiology, epidemiological study designs, critical
appraisal of literature, screening, prevention, exposure
assessment, outbreak investigation, confounding & bias.
On completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Understand the differences between descriptive
and analytical epidemiology;
2. Explain the concepts of study question, study
population, sampling strategy, exposure
assessment, bias and confounding;
3. Understand the strengths and weaknesses of
different epidemiological study designs and apply
this knowledge to the selection of appropriate
study designs;
4. Critically analyse epidemiological papers from the
medical research literature in order to identify the
main study question/s, study design, study
populations and sampling strategy using
epidemiological principles;
5. Evaluate the inadequacy of exposure assessment
in epidemiological studies and appreciate the
consequences of poor exposure assessment;
6. Interpret the results of epidemiological studies,
solve problems relating to the use of the
epidemiological concepts, parameters and study
designs and calculative relative risks, incidence
rates and odds ratios from simple data.
Biostatistics
Module: Introductory Biostatistics (5879)
Complete
Complete
Incomplete – expected date of completion:
Contents includes: classification of medical data; data
summary; statistical distributions (e.g.Bernoulli, binomial,
normal t and chisquare distributions), sampling
distribution for sample statistic (e.g. sample mean and
sample proportion), standard error, difference between
standard deviation and standard error; comparing two or
more treatments/methods or two or more groups of
patients using confidence interval and hypothesis test;
evaluating association between exposure and outcome;
relative risk and odds ratio; correlation and regression
analyses (linear and logistic regression); sample size
calculation for study design.
On the completion of this unit, students will have
developed the ability to:
1. Describe, summarise, and graph data
appropriately;
2. Analyse elementary data using a statistical
computer package;
3. Identify different probability distributions and their
parameters;
4. Quantify uncertainty in research results using
biostatistical methods;
5. Apply the appropriate statistical methods to basic
research questions;
6. Perform simple statistical analyses, report their
findings and interpret their results;
7. Critically appraise the statistical aspects of
research publications in health care.
Health Protection (includes Environmental Health and/or
Communicable Disease Prevention and Control
Complete
Incomplete – expected date of completion:
Module: Environmental Influences on Health (78921)
Complete
Environmental influences on health including infectious
diseases and occupational hazards. Physical, chemical
and biological hazards. Principles of environmental &
occupational hazard assessment and control, including
risk. Methods of hazard management. How to
communicate environmental hazard and risk data.
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
1. Nominate the important chemical, physical and
biological factors in the environment and the risks
to health from environmental factors in Australia.
2. Demonstrate fluency with the terminology used to
describe chemical, physical, and microbiological
hazards encountered in the community.
3. Critically appraise published epidemiological
articles related to environmental health risks.
4. Relate methods to identify common hazards in
environmental media such as water, air and food,
and methods to assess the degree of risk from
these hazards.
5. Nominate common interventions used to control
environmental risks and prevent injury, including
standard setting, and the key personal, social and
economic factors that inhibit, control or lessen
their impact.
Effectively and sensitively communicate information and
principles about environmental hazards and risks.
Module: Communicable Diseases Control in
Developing Countries (54879)
Complete
The course covers the following topics:
 Global burden of Communicable Disease;
 Control and eradication of vaccinepreventable diseases;
 Policy principles and practical challenges in
planning programmes for the control of
communicable disease;
 Water and sanitation: The prevention and
management of enteric diseases and ORT:
including cholera, dysentery, hepatitis and
typhoid;
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Diagnosis, treatment and control of
tuberculosis;
Case Management of Infectious Diseases in
Childhood - Integrated Management of
Childhood Illness;
Control of vector-borne diseases including
malaria and dengue haemorrhagic fever;
Setting up surveillance systems;
Vaccine developments - looking to the future;
Sexually transmitted infections and syndromic
management of pelvic disease.
On completion of the unit, students should be able to:
1. Identify and justify appropriate approaches to
disease monitoring and surveillance, outbreak and
epidemic investigation, and disease control
program evaluation.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the
environmental context of the most common
communicable diseases in developing countries,
including appropriate use of resources and the
development of systems to provide adequate
water, sanitation, vector control and treatment
services.
3. Demonstrate skills in the planning, implementation
and evaluation of disease control programs. as
well as preparedness for, and control of
epidemics.
Health Promotion
Module: Health Promotion (6457)
Complete
Complete
Incomplete – expected date of completion:
Theories and models of health promotion. Planning and
implementation strategies including education and
information advocacy, social marketing,
legislation/regulation, mediation and community
development. Settings for health promotion including
community, neighbourhoods, schools, general practice,
hospitals, workplace and home. Managing and
maintaining health promotion programs. Monitoring and
evaluating health promotion processes and outcomes.
Current issues in health promotion e.g. efficacy of
intersectoral health promotion, economic and social
benefit, public vs private actions, behaviourist vs.
structuralist approach.
The overall aim of this unit is to equip students with a
knowledge and comprehension of health promotion
theoretical frameworks, experience in developing health
promotion strategies, and an understanding of health
promotion concepts and approaches as they relate to
contemporary health issues in Australia and other
countries.
The unit is designed to assist students to:
1. Appreciate key developments in Australia and
internationally that have contributed to current
understanding of health and health promotion;
Health Policy, Planning or Management
2. Examine the range of theoretical and practical
intervention frameworks available for health
promotion delivery;
3. Become familiar with the information and skills
required for the development of health promotion
programs;
4. Describe and form opinions on dilemmas and
difficulties in health promotion.
Module: Public Health Policy (25413)
Complete
Complete
Incomplete – expected date of completion: To be
completed on October 2015.
Health policy. Governmental institutions and their roles in
public health. Legislative processes and the participants
in them. Initiation and formulation of policy. Planning.
Common approaches. Stakeholders and their role in
public health planning. Institutional imperatives in the
planning process. Strategies for influencing the
development of public health plans. Case studies. Public
health plans and the planning at State, regional and local
levels. Processes of development, implementation and
evaluation.
The purpose of this unit is to equip students with the
knowledge and skills needed to participate competently in
the development, implementation, and analysis of health
policy at a level appropriate to a general public health
practitioner, and with an introduction to various forms of
health planning
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
1. Describe the major state, national and
international institutions and arrangements
through which health policy is made;
2. Describe the contemporary policy environment
within which health policy making takes place;
3. Demonstrate familiarity with the arguments and
the politics associated with major contemporary
health policy issues;
4. Demonstrate competence in policy analysis,
policy development and policy advocacy in
relation to important public health issues.
MASTER’S MAPPING EXERCISE
Content Area
Name:
University of Study:
Name of Degree Program:
Is Degree Complete? Yes
No
If no, please indicate your expected completion date:
Epidemiology
Complete
Incomplete – expected date of completion:
Biostatistics
Complete
Incomplete – expected date of completion:
Health Protection (includes Environmental Health
and/or Communicable Disease Prevention and
Control
Complete
Incomplete – expected date of completion:
Health Promotion
Complete
Incomplete – expected date of completion:
Health Policy, Planning or Management
Complete
Incomplete – expected date of completion:
DECLARATION OF APPLICANT
I hereby declare that the information provided on this form is true and accurate
Signature:
Date: