Event Information
ACRRM RG Foundation Skills: Population Health
$0.00 for Member
$95.00 for Non-Member
1 Educational activity
 Addressing health inequities
FACRRM Recommended
Apply a population health approach
Practice medicine within an ethical, intellectual and professional framework
Population health (POP)
Remote medicine (RM)

ACRRM RG Foundation Skills: Population Health

This course is one of five courses in the ACRRM Rural Generalist Foundation Skills series:

  1. Rural and remote context

  2. Self-care and wellbeing

  3. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

  4. Population health

  5. Digital health

In recent years there has been an increasing emphasis both in government policy and amongst medical organisations on using a "population approach" in both the prevention and treatment of illness. So, what is this population approach? What evidence is there that it works? And what does it mean to rural or remote general practitioners? These are some of the questions that this online course aims to answer.

The materials in this course were developed in partnership with Queensland Country Practice (QCP), Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service. QCP has agreed to its wider release to contribute to the broad training curriculum delivered through ACRRM and the potential benefit to rural doctors in training in other areas.

Online learning hours:
1.00
Total hours:
1.00
 
Learning objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • outline the steps involved in taking a population health approach to patient care
  • elicit appropriate population health information
  • appreciate the role of recall/reminder systems
  • adopt and review best practice protocols and guidelines in relation to population health activities
  • identify the risk factors, health problems and health needs of the community, and advocate for risk reduction and health enhancement
  • recognise the role of clinical audit in the continuous quality improvement of a rural/remote medical practice.

Provider Information
The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
Education Development Team
61 07 3105 8200
61 07 3105 8299
education@acrrm.org.au
Level 1, 324 Queen Street
BRISBANE CITY
QLD, 4000