Course code: 2279 * Full-fee paying: subject fee $1560; course fee $9350 * Overseas student subject fee: $2100; course fees $12,600.
This course is recognised by the College of General Practitioners.
Applicants for candidature must hold a medical degree and have at least three years experience in clinical medicine.
Students will require access to a PC with a Web browser. Interstate and overseas students will also require access to their local forensic facilities.
Students will be required to attend the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine for two weeks in both years of the course.
The course is two years part-time. The course consists of six subjects comprising three compulsory core subjects and three elective subjects. Core subjects will be offered in one year and the elective subjects in the following year. Students may enter the course in either year.
Continuous assessment is carried out via case studies and assignments and formal assessment by oral presentation and examination.
Credit transfer (up to a maximum of 30 per cent) may be granted for previously completed work which is substantially similar in terms of content, duration and standards as subjects contained in the Graduate Diploma of Forensic Medicine.
For more detailed information and the course application form, please contact Ms D Hope, telephone (03) 9684 4423 fax (03) 9684 4440 email: deborah@vifp.monash.edu.au
Completed applications are to be forwarded to Ms D Hope, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, 57-83 Kavanagh Street, Southbank, Vic., 3006 by 1 November 1999.