Entry requirements

For admission to the course, 112.5 credits within the physiotherapy programme and within the physician programme are required. All oral, written and practical examinations in physiotherapy from earlier semesters must be passed. If the examination consists of a report, this should be submitted before end of the actual semester and must be approved at the latest the following semester.

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is that the students should be able to plan and evaluate relevant health promotion measures based on models and theories of health promotion work on organisation and community level.

On completion of the course, the student is expected to (be able to)

Knowledge and understanding

1. Account for basic concepts within public health

2. Describe at a general level international and national public health aims

3. Describe and discuss relevant theories and methods for planning, implementation and evaluation of health promotion work on group and organisational level

4. Describe working environment legislation that relates to health promotion at work

Skills and abilities

5. Make delimited risk assessments within physical and psychosocial working environments

6. Make defined ergonomic musculoskeletal assessments and propose measures and method for implementation

Judgement and approach

7. Observe and discuss ethical issues in health promotion work on group and organisational level

8. Identify own need of additional skills to work with health promotion on group and organisational level

Content

Basic concepts within public health, international and national public health aims, theories and models for planning and evaluation of health promotion work on group and organisational level, relevant fields within the working environment legislation, tools for ergonomic musculoskeletal assessments, reporting and review of ergonomic musculoskeletal action proposals, ethical issues in primary health care and identification of own need of continued professional development within health promotion.

Instruction

Lectures, seminars, working place visits in groups.

Assessment

• Compulsory attendance and active participation in seminars (aim 3 and 5)

• Passed written project plan for a health promotion project (aim 3)

• Passed written report and review of ergonomic musculoskeletal assessment (aim 6)

• Passed written examination submitted during allotted time (aim 1-4, 7 and 8)

Students who have failed the examination have the right to retake the examination once more during current semester. Students have the right to retake the examination 4 times (= in total 5 examinations). After five failed examinations, the student may lose his/her right to continue the studies. The chairman of the programme committee may however admit a right to additional examination after special trial. Application for a special trial should be sent to the director of studies to be forwarded to the chairman of the programme committee. Every time the student participates in an examination counts, i.e. the student is in place and is informed of the examination assignment without completing the examination. be counted as an examination.

The student has right to request a change of examiner after two failed examinations