Curriculum for Making Every Contact Count

Curriculum Competency

This is a competency-based curriculum. On completion of undergraduate and graduate entry level healthcare training programmes it is required that healthcare students are competent healthcare professionals. The national curriculum comprises of four units, building towards the development of competencies in delivering brief interventions for Making Every Contact Count.

The curriculum is divided into two sections.

Section 1: Lecture’s/Facilitator’s Guide

Presents a guide for educators on all aspects of the Curriculum inclusive of the:

Aims of the Curriculum and Curriculum Manual
Underlying philosophy of the Curriculum
Curriculum development processes.

Sub-sections are presented dealing with:

Implementing/integrating the Curriculum
Assessment of learning
Curriculum evaluation.

Section 2: Curriculum Content

Presents the learning content and outlines four units of study:

Unit 1-Health and Personal Wellness
Unit 2-Lifestyle Behaviours and Personal Responsibility for Health
Unit 3-Communicating for Healthy Lifestyles and Health Behaviour Change
Unit 4-Making Every Contact Count: Providing Opportunistic Brief Advice and Undertaking Brief Interventions

The Learning content permits easy interpretation and utility across HEIs irrespective of local resources. Each HEI can work with the learning materials as face-to-face lectures, online or blended approaches to delivery.

A variety of teaching strategies are employed: