Monash University: University Handbooks: Postgraduate Handbook 2001: Subjects indexed by faculty
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Graduate Diploma in Health Services Management


General information

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.

Course structure

This course is comprised of seven core subjects and one elective subject.

Core subjects
Elective subjects

An elective subject may be chosen from the following:

Assessment

Assessment is by written assignment, examination, individual and group presentation.

Inquiries

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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