Public Health Medicine

Training application

Provisional approval first, then a rotation planA plan for each rotation of how you will cover your learning goals there, approved by your supervisors. confirming your position within 12 months

Expected level by the end

Leadership, supervision and teaching, quality improvement, communication, inclusive public health and advocacy with indirect supervision, the other professional activities with direct supervision, and knowing how to apply each knowledge guide

RACP Advanced Training Orientation resource

In the first 6 months

Progress decision

At the end of the phase, on evidence of competence

Expected level by the end

Professional behaviours in every domain, policy and unit management with indirect supervision, every other professional activity with supervision at a distance, and each knowledge guide applied often in practice

Progress decision

At the end of the phase, on evidence of competence

Research project

Submitted for marking by the end of this phase, so there is time to resubmit

Learning goals

19, in professional behaviours, 12 professional activities and 6 knowledge guides, two of them still being co-designed

The professional activities include leadership and accountability, supervision and teaching, quality improvement, incident response, population and public health interventions, population health information, communication and engagement, inclusive public health, policy analysis and planning, unit management, and advocacy

The knowledge guides include the scientific foundations of public health medicine, communicable disease, non-communicable diseases, environmental risks to health, and the determinants of health

Expected level by the end of training

Every learning goal well enough to supervise others

AFPHM Oral Examination

Sat in this phase

Completion decision

Then a recommendation from the Training Program Committee and an invitation to apply for Fellowship of the AFPHMAustralasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine