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.

BE
  1. Professional behaviours
DO
  1. Leadership and accountability
  2. Title TBA 
  3. Supervision and teaching
  4. Quality improvement 
  5. Incident response 
  6. Population and public health interventions
  7. Population health information
  8. Communication and engagement for population health gain 
  9. Inclusive public health  
  10. Policy analysis, development, and planning 
  11. Organisational unit management 
  12. Public health advocacy 
KNOW
  1. Scientific foundations of public health medicine   
  2. The AFPHM is committed to co-designing this learning goal with Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and Māori (tangata whenua) leaders and experts 
  3. Communicable disease prevention and control 
  4. Non-communicable diseases and conditions, prevention, and control
  5. Preventing, detecting, and managing environmental risks to health 
  6. Determinants of health 
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