The
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine offers this course in a
distance education mode with compulsory residential block requirements each
semester. The course can be taken on a part-time basis over two years or
full-time over one year. The course aims to provide students with the skills
necessary to manage clinical health care systems, and to provide a broad
framework from which to manage clinical health care systems by attention to
human resource, financial, information, medico-legal, political, cultural,
economic, ethical, industrial, technological and psycho-social issues.
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 a health-related field. 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
completion of the Graduate Certificate in Health Services Management before
enrolling in the graduate diploma.
This course is comprised of seven core subjects and one elective subject.
An elective subject may be chosen from the following:
Assessment is by written assignment, examination, individual and group presentation.
Inquiries should be directed to the Postgraduate Office, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash Medical School, Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Prahran, Victoria 3181.
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