Welcome back to The Balanced Medics' Handover Podcast. Today we're talking with Dr Jessica Wells, a Public Health Physician.
We're going to be discussing:
- Dr Well's journey to work in Public Health
- What Public Health is
- The requirements needed to join the training program - there have been changes since this podcast was recorded and now up to 12 months of a Master’s degree (or equivalent) will be considered if it includes a formal work placement.
- Who would be suited
- What the day-to-day role is like
- On-call, after hours and renumeration
- Where you can study a Master of Public Health (MPH)
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For more information on Public Health training in Australia check out the links below:
Public Health Medicine RACP
Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine
Master of Public Health requirements:
- Epidemiology
- Biostatistics
- Health Protection (includes Environmental Health and/or Communicable Disease Prevention and Control)
- Health Promotion
- Health Policy, Planning or Management
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