Postgraduate - UnitPHC5011 - Complexity of care in a community setting

This unit will provide students with a broad based understanding of complexity theory, the nonlinear dynamics underpinning the physiology of health and disease, and the place of complex systems in managing the health care system. Practitioners will be introduced to the concepts and methods of complexity sciences and encouraged to explore the application of these to areas of their own clinical practice or to issues of national relevance for a primary health care setting. The focus of the learning content and activities will challenge students to explore the currently accepted concepts, held by both health care practitioners and healthcare systems in general. Practitioners will be encouraged to generate solutions for these problems that explicitly describe the intended and unintended consequences of such solutions.

The unit will address the nature of complex adaptive systems, applying complex adaptive systems principles to learning, clinical and organisational problems and developing solutions to problems that are context sensitive.