Course Coordinator: Gillian Laven
Phone: +61 8313 6484
Email: gillian.laven@adelaide.edu.au
Location: Ground Floor, 122 Frome Street, Discipline of Rural Health

Learning & Teaching Team
Phone: +61 8313 2128
Email: undergrad_enq@adelaide.edu.au
Location: Level 7, 178 North Terrace

1	Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the influence of rurality and remoteness on the health of rural Australians
2	Outline the policy directions and associated challenges in rural health
3	Describe models of rural and remote health service delivery
4	Describe and critique existing public health strategies to reduce the severity of health risks for rural and remote Australians
5	Outline strategies to address the health risks for rural and remote Australians

Liaw S, Kilpatrick S, editors. A Textbook of Australian Rural Health. Canberra: Australian Rural Health Education Network; 2008 Hard copy available free to students, e-version pdf available http://www.arhen.org.au/links/publications.html

Students will also access a series of readings which will be made available electronically through MyUni
The course will also include online learning resources such as relevant recorded lectures (from local teaching staff and externally eg TED talks and Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health http://lms.cucrh.uwa.edu.au/login/index.php - coordinated and accessible through MyUni

Students will also access a series of readings which will be made available electronically through MyUni
The course will also include online learning resources such as relevant recorded lectures (from local teaching staff and externally eg TED talks and Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health http://lms.cucrh.uwa.edu.au/login/index.php - coordinated and accessible through MyUni

Self-directed pre-readings and online tutorials will be used to introduce the core concepts in the topic of rural health

Seminars, tutorials, workshops and panel discussions will include a mix of guest speakers and university staff with expertise in rural health and health systems providing students with theoretical approaches and or workplace setting examples

The field trip will provide an interactive and practical approach to learning enabling the students to apply and observe the core concepts covered in the course in the context of issues relating to access and distance for rural populations

The student presentations will provide the students with the opportunity to further develop team working problem solving and presentation skills

Independent learning and application of knowledge and skills acquired through the course in the design development and preparation of a grant application

The RPHIII is an offered as an intensive course involving:
Preparatory reading, online tutorials and and online certified Cultural Awareness course – 8 hours

Contact:
Lectures, seminars and workshops – 12 hours
Practicals – 6 hours
Small group discovery – 2 hours
Group Presentation – 20 minutes
Field Trip (over a 36 hour period):
Site visits - 7
Grant Writing
Community Benefits SA http://www.dcsi.sa.gov.au/pub/default.aspx?tabid=454 - 22 hours

Assessment tasks:
5 tasks - 50 hours over trimester

Week	Topic	Lecture
Week 1	Pre-reading	Individual external study
Week 2	Pre-reading	Individual external study
Week 3	Pre-reading	Individual external study
Week 4	Online Tutorials	Individual external study
Week 5	Online Tutorials	Individual external study
Week 6	Online Tutorials	Individual external study
Week 7	Intensive	On campus field trip
Week 8	Outline Grant Proposal	Individual external study
Week 9	Outline Grant Proposal	Individual external study
Week 10	Outline Grant Proposal	Individual external study
Week 11	Grant Proposal Writing	Individual external study
Week 12	Grant Proposal Writing	Individual external study
Week 13	Grant Proposal Writing	Individual external study

Rural Public Health III is an intensive course with an overnight field trip component to the Port Augusta and Port Pirie communities. As the field trip is a requirement of the course, transport and budget dormitory style accommodation is funded by the Discipline of Rural Health. Students have the option of self-funding their accommodation, however due Health Safety and Welfare requirements, they must travel via University provided transport.

Incidental fees: students are required to purchase one lunch and one dinner during the field trip.

Residential component mandatory: Students should note, there is no alternative placement available for the RPHIII field trip. Modified arrangements for coursework assessment will be offered when academically practicable and reasonable, however it is not practicable, reasonable or culturally appropriate to provide an alternative to the field trip.

The small group discovery experience forms part of the group assignment. Students work in groups of 3-4 students, to explore and critique existing public health strategies designed to reduce the severity of health risks for rural and remote Australians. The students then use current policy initiatives ie the National Health Priority Areas and the South Australian Strategic Plan to design an intervention for their selected target group.

The group meets twice during the intensive with an academic mentor, to identify the health issue, design and prepare an evaluation of their intervention.

Each group presents their public health intervention, using a poster format, on the last day of the intensive. Formative peer assessment is facilitated by the RPHIII coordinator and an invited academic. Summative assessment by the coordinator and invited academic is provided to the students using an assessment rubric based on the RSD framework.

Assessment Task	Assessment Type	Weighting	Learning Outcome(s) being addressed
Online Introduction to Rural Health tutorial	Summative	5%	1, 3
Online Aboriginal Cultural Orientation	Summative	5%	1, 3
Participation in the Field Trip	NGP	N/A	1-5
Group Presentation	Summative	25%	1-5
Grant Application Outline	Summative	20%	1-5
Grant Application	Summative	45%	1-5

All assessment tasks are designed to enable students to develop and demonstrate their understanding of core health concepts and policy and strategies as they relate to the rural and remote context
Students gain skills from each of the assessment tasks that are relevant to employment in the health system
Students will work throughout the trimester on the assessment tasks outlined here
All assessment tasks will be guided by marking rubrics and the course handbook available on MyUni

Online Tutorial
Introduction to Rural Health. Students are required to complete prior to intensive. The Introduction to Rural Health is a self-paced short online tutorial designed to introduce students to some of the core concepts surrounding rural & remote health. Students are tracked in their use and completion of the tutorial

Online Aboriginal Cultural Orientation Tutorial
Students are required to complete this tutorial prior to intensive. The workshop introduces students to Indigenous culture in preparation for the field trip and site visits. This online orientation is a requirement stipulated by the Port Augusta Aboriginal Community. On completion students must print a certificate of completion and submit on day one of the intensive

Field Trip
Residential component mandatory: Students should note, there is no alternative placement available for the RPHIII field trip. Modified arrangements for coursework assessment will be offered when academically practicable and reasonable, however it is not practicable, reasonable or culturally appropriate to provide an alternative to the field trip.
Group Presentation – major assignment
Students are allocated to a group, and are required to present a poster on a rural public health initiative of their choice. The assessment provides an opportunity for students to develop skills in proposal development, within a supported environment, to ask questions and to receive feedback

Grant Application Proposal Outline – minor assignment (1000) words
The major assignment for the Rural Public Health III course is developed in two stages. In the first stage students are asked to prepare an outline of their proposed grant application. Feedback from this process allows the students to receive feedback and incorporate the feedback into their final proposal

Grant Application Proposal – major assignment (2500 words)
Students are required to complete a grant proposal using the Community Benefits SA funding guidelines and application form. This assessment aims to provide the students with a practical experience in grant writing and enable the student to demonstrate their ability to develop a strategy to address one the health risks for rural and remote Australians identified through the Rural Public Health III course.

Assignments must be submitted in electronic format via the MyUni Assignment TURNITIN submission

Hardcopy submission is not accepted

The appropriate Cover Sheet must be attached to each assignment. These cover sheets are available through MyUni

Assignments must be submitted by 11:59pm on the due date

Assignments should be saved as last name_first name_course code_assignment number (eg Smith_John_Student ID_PUBHLTH3500EX_assignment1)

Assignment Return
Assignments will be returned via the MyUni assignment submission system, or via university email (if system unavailable) within approximately 2 weeks

Supplementary Assessment
Supplementary assessments are not offered in this course

Extensions
Must be requested at least one day before the submission due date
Will generally be granted only on medical or genuine compassionate grounds
All requests must go to the course Co-ordinator (via Academic Support Officer)
Documentary supporting evidence such as a medical certificate or a police report (in the case of lost computers, car & household theft etc.) will usually be required when requesting an extension
Documentary evidence will be required to support any claim of illness or inconvenience preventing prior contact as specified above
Students submitting examinable written work who request (and receive) an extension that takes them beyond the examination period are advised that there is no guarantee that their grades will be finalised:
“in time for graduation” for Level 3 courses or post‐graduate courses
“in time to meet usual University deadlines”

Penalties
Lateness
Assessments that are submitted after the due date, or agreed upon extension date, will be penalised at 5% of the total possible marks per day beyond the due date. The Discipline reserves the right to refuse to accept an assignment that is more than 7 days late
Word Limit
For Assessment items that carry a word limit the following penalty guidelines apply; Submitted assessments exceeding 10% beyond the word limit will not be marked beyond the point where the word limit is reached
For the purposes of assessing word limit, the electronic word count will be utilised
Word limit only includes the introduction, body and conclusion of the paper, and does not include cover pages, reference lists, and appendices etc
Moderation
Moderation in this course will be carried out in accordance with processes set out in the Division of Health Sciences Assessment and Moderation in Health Sciences guidelines

Referencing
For undergraduate courses, the Discipline of Public Health uses the Harvard (author/date) system of referencing. This system uses:
Bracketed references to the authors and year in the body of the text
A reference list in alphabetical order (by author) at the end of the assignment. Refer to the following link for more details on Harvard referencing
http://libguides.adelaide.edu.au/academic_writing
http://www.unisa.edu.au/ltu/students/study/referencing/styles.asp