Public Health Medicine learning goals
Public Health Medicine learning goals
Completion requirements
The curriculum standards are summarised as 19 learning goals. The learning goals articulate what trainees need to be, do and know, and are assessed throughout training.

- Professional behaviours

- Leadership and accountability
- Title TBA
- Supervision and teaching
- Quality improvement
- Incident response
- Population and public health interventions
- Population health information
- Communication and engagement for population health gain
- Inclusive public health
- Policy analysis, development, and planning
- Organisational unit management
- Public health advocacy

- Scientific foundations of public health medicine
- The AFPHM is committed to co-designing this learning goal with Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and Māori (tangata whenua) leaders and experts
- Communicable disease prevention and control
- Non-communicable diseases and conditions, prevention, and control
- Preventing, detecting, and managing environmental risks to health
- Determinants of health
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