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Faculty of Health Sciences: Contextualised Graduate Attributes

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Research and Inquiry. Graduates of the Faculty of Health Sciences will be able to create new knowledge and understanding through the process of research and inquiry.
  • Graduates will be engaged in the generation of new knowledge in their academic and professional endeavours through evidenced based practice and evidence based innovation.
  • Graduates are able to identify key questions and problems, and are able to base their response to these problems on with reference to both recent and prior scholarship.
  • Graduates engage in research-grounded practice in their professional lives, in their dealings with clients, colleagues and the broader community.

Information Literacy. Graduates of the Faculty of Health Sciences will be able to use information effectively in a range of contexts.
  • Graduates are required to be competent in a range of information technologies, related to health care
    • Library and literature databases
    • Diagnostic systems
    • Epidemiological resources files (eg HealthWiz)
  • Graduates can identify sources of information, and understand the impact of editorial and production processes on information and knowledge

Personal and Intellectual Autonomy. Graduates of the Faculty of Health Sciences will be able to work independently and sustainably, in a way that is informed by openness, curiosity and a desire to meet new challenges.
  • Reflection on personal and professional values, and the relationship between values, ethics and practice.
  • Graduates are able to make independent, informed personal and professional decisions based upon their own values and their knowledge base.
  • Professional practice and clinical attachments - graduates as autonomous professionals within a broader professional and university identity
  • Inquiry-based learning resources - student as 'owner' of educational and professional development

Ethical, Social and Professional Understanding. Graduates of the Faculty of Health Sciences will hold personal values and beliefs consistent with their role as responsible members of local, national, international and professional communities
  • Professionalism and informed, considered professional presentation in dealing with clients, colleagues and the general public
  • Able to represent professional and personal values within multidisciplinary teamwork context
  • Empathy and reflection
  • Multidisciplinary, and biopsychosocial perspective on health and wellbeing.
  • Team - and group - leadership skills
  • Awareness of the interaction between personal values and ideology, personal and professional ethics and health policy and practice.

Communication. Graduates of the Faculty of Health Sciences will recognise and value communication as a tool for negotiating and creating new understanding, interacting with others, and furthering their own learning.
  • Empathic and reflective listeners
  • Able to communicate knowledge in their discipline area to clients and colleagues from other disciplines in both speaking and writing.
  • Able to accurately prĂ©cis and edit their own written and spoken output and that of others.
  • Able to summarize and re-represent information in a number of forms (eg numerical, graphical and in writing) to a range of 'audiences'
  • Able to assimilate and present information from a range of sources while preserving the integrity and 'voice' of those sources