Course code: 2870 Monash Medical School, Alfred Hospital Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Full-fee-paying course: $4400 (Australian residents); TBA (international students) Attendance is compulsory for some units
This course offered by the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine aims to provide a program for professionals working within the health care sector who wish to expand their knowledge and skills in the management of health services. This certificate allows students to gain some core competencies in health services management, including the leadership, human resource and financial management of health services that can be built upon in the Graduate Diploma in Health Services Management and masters degrees.
Applicants must have a medical degree, a bachelors degree with honors or graduate diploma, or a three-year bachelors degree with relevant professional experience in health management. The department will individually assess applications from students with a nursing diploma completed before the introduction of nursing degrees.
Access to the internet is required, however, access to personal computing facilities is desirable but not essential.
The majority of the units have 15 hours of face-to-face teaching in Melbourne during one week of the semester. Units are coordinated to allow students to attend the teaching sessions of two units in the same week. The teaching sessions are interactive and experiential and aim to discuss, clarify and reinforce the course content and assessment requirements. A number of guest lecturers who are recognised experts in the health services management field are involved.
The Graduate Certificate in Health Services Management comprises of 24 credit points. It consists of two core and two elective units taken over a 12-month period of two part-time semesters. It is not offered on a full-time basis.
Assessment for the course is a combination of assignment work, examination, individual and group presentations.
Credits or exemptions may be granted for the core units where the student supplies documentary evidence of successfully completing a similar subject/unit at a similar level elsewhere, within the last seven years. Any candidate may, with the approval of the course coordinator and the faculty, be granted credit for up to 50 per cent of their course. All credit applications are assessed on a case-by-case basis.
For more detailed information, contact the Postgraduate Office, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash Medical School, Alfred Hospital. Telephone (03) 9903 0563, fax (03) 9903 9556, email pgradenq@med.monash.edu.au or website http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology
Completed applications are to be forwarded to the Postgraduate Office, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash Medical School, Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Victoria 3181, by 20 November 2000 to be considered for a first-round offer. Late applications will be accepted up to 20 February 2001.
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