Course code: 2314 Monash Medical School, Alfred Hospital Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Full-fee-paying course: $8800(Australian residents); $19,500 (international students) Attendance is compulsory for some units
This course aims to provide students with the skills necessary to manage clinical health services systems. It also aims to provide a broad framework from which to manage clinical health care systems by attention to human resources, financial, information, medico-legal, political, cultural, economic, ethical, industrial, technological and psycho-social issues. The graduate diploma articulates with the master degrees in health services management and public health.
The graduate diploma satisfies the course requirements of the Royal Australian College of Medical Administrator's (RACMA) Clinical Fellowship. The Health Services Management courses also aims to meet the requirements of the Australian College of Health Service Executives (ACHSE).
Applicants must have a medical degree, a bachelors degree with honours 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. In such instances, the department may require the completion of the Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma in Health Services Management before enrolling in the Graduate Diploma.
Access to personal computing facilities is desirable but not essential, however access to the internet is required.
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.
Students may undertake the units MPH1040 (Introduction to epidemiology) and
MPH1041 (Introduction to biostatistics), which are offered only on-campus.
These units are recommended for students wishing to undertake a masters program.
The Graduate Diploma of Health Services Management comprises 48 credit points. It consists of seven core units and one elective unit taken over either a 12-month period of two full-time semesters or a 24-month period of four part-time semesters.
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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 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 Courses 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 see 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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