Graduate Diploma in Forensic Medicine

• General information
• Course structure
  • First year
    • Core subjects (students will be required to complete all these subjects):
  • Second year
    • Elective subjects (students will be required to complete three of these subjects):
• Assessment
• Inquiries

General information

This course, which will be taught primarily by distance education, is offered by the Department of Forensic Medicine and can be taken part-time over two years. The course, through its generic core subjects as well as subjects designed for discipline-specific groups, will prepare practitioners for a range of clinical forensic practice, teaching and research activities.
Applicants must have the degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from an Australian university, or have qualifications which are equivalent to, or are a satisfactory substitute for, the qualifications described above, and have at least three years experience in clinical medicine.

Course structure

First year

Core subjects (students will be required to complete all these subjects):

• FOR1001 Medical evidence
• FOR1002 Injury interpretation
• FOR1003 Ethics, medicine and the law

Second year

Elective subjects (students will be required to complete three of these subjects):

• FOR2001 Traffic medicine
• FOR2003 Custodial medicine
• FOR2004 Elements of the forensic sciences
• FOR2005 Paediatric forensic medicine
• FOR2006 Adult sexual assault

Assessment

The nature and content of the course require a range of assessment methods to be utilised. The assessment methods include assignments, case studies and presentations, case book, and oral presentations.

Inquiries

Inquires should be directed to the course administrator, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, Monash University, 57-83 Kavanagh Street, Southbank, Victoria 3006.

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