Program Overview

Unit of Study NATM2002 - Clinical Studies in Naturopathic Medicine 1: Assessment, Microbiology and Immunity

Unit Snapshot

• Unit type: UG Coursework Unit
• Credit points: 12
• Faculty/College: Faculty of Health
• Placement: No
• Pre-requisites: NUTR2001 - Nutritional Medicine AND NATM2001 - Botanical Medicine
• Enrolment information: Students are required to attend on-campus classes and participate in online activities. Prior knowledge of human anatomy and physiology is desirable.

Unit Description

Integrates knowledge and skills in clinical sciences, naturopathic therapeutics, interdisciplinary care and clinical reasoning in order to safely and effectively assess, diagnose, plan, treat and review immunological clinical cases within the scope of contemporary naturopathic medicine practice.

Unit Content

1. Clinical assessment: history taking
2. Clinical assessment: assessment tools
3. Clinical assessment: vital signs and anthropometric examination
4. Clinical microbiology
5. Clinical immunology I
6. Clinical immunology II

Availabilities

Learning Outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning. On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

• demonstrate comprehensive clinical history taking
• display application of assessment tools, vital signs and anthropometric examination appropriate to a clinical case
• correlate the key characteristics of microbes implicated in human health
• integrate clinical sciences, appropriate therapeutic applications and interdisciplinary care in immunological conditions

Prescribed Learning Resources

Term 2

• Prescribed Texts: No prescribed texts.
• Prescribed Resources/Equipment: Students are required to bring to each laboratory class: non-restrictive clothing, fully enclosed sturdy flat non-slip shoes (shoes must fully cover toes), and a hair-tie (if applicable).

Term 5

• Prescribed Texts: No prescribed texts.
• Prescribed Resources/Equipment: Students are required to bring to each laboratory class: non-restrictive clothing, fully enclosed sturdy flat non-slip shoes (shoes must fully cover toes), and a hair-tie (if applicable). Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.