units
MRS0004
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2012 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.
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Level | Postgraduate |
Faculty | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences |
Offered | Clayton Second semester 2012 (Day) |
Coordinator(s) | Dr Sarah Jansen & A/Prof Peter Temple-Smith |
Topics include disorders of sexual development; sexually transmitted disease and the HIV pandemic; reproductive toxicology; reproductive cancers, menstrual disorders, infertility and erectile dysfunction.
The objective of this unit is to provide students with an understanding of the theory of reproduction with detailed study of infertility management, pregnancy, parturition, neonatal monitoring and reproductive toxicology. This series of lectures thus provides students with the theoretical background for more intensive study of particular areas of the reproductive sciences.
Exam (50%)
5,000 word Literature Review (50%)