The Master of Clinical Medicine is a flexible, multidisciplinary degree that equips its candidates to work competently and efficiently in today's rapidly changing health environment. It provides broad expertise in the areas of clinical administration, evaluation and subjects that will soundly enhance the pursuit of career aspirations, within (eg surgery, emergency medicine) or between already established disciplines (eg paediatrics and health promotion). This course adds a new career dimension to the clinical skills already possessed by its participants by either providing the opportunity for obtaining expertise in a chosen area of speciality, such as surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, emergency medicine, paediatrics, and internal medicine, or the opportunity for undertaking retraining to enable improved medical practice management and assessment, or the opportunity for broadening the knowledge already possessed in an interdisciplinary area of expertise.
Applicants must be a medical practitioner registered by a Medical Board within the Commonwealth, or within their own country, with appropriate experience. Specific entry criteria for some subjects may also apply.
The
Master of Clinical Medicine is a 72-credit-point masters degree. The maximum
credit point exemption that can be obtained is 24 credit points.
Credit or exemption may be granted in this course for Fellows of the Australian
College of Physicians, Surgeons, General Practice, and Obstetrics and
Gynaecology and for the fellowship trainees who are currently undertaking
´Part 1 fellowship training' (24-credit-point exemption, ie the
requirement to undertake the clinical components offered in the third semester
of this course). Those with other relevant related diplomas will also be
considered for credit or exemption in this course.
International students may also receive credit-point exemption for accredited
clinical work carried out in their home country.
The
Master of Clinical Medicine is a 72-credit-point degree that involves a mixture
of distance education and on-campus subjects. It can be undertaken full-time
for one year, or part-time for two or four years.
The course consists of 40 teaching weeks in two 15-week semesters (semesters
one and three) and one 10-week semester (semester two). The flexible curriculum
allows a distinctive educational approach by facilitating students to choose
subjects to construct a sequence of studies that is suitable to their own
requirements.
For
a student enrolled full-time, four compulsory six-credit-point subjects are to
be completed by distance education in this semester. A student enrolled
part-time can undertake two of these subjects during first semester for each of
two years or all of four subjects in one year during semesters one and
three.
The basis of clinical practice (four compulsory distance education
subjects):
Four
six-credit-point subjects chosen from those available are to be completed in
this semester by a student enrolled full-time. A student enrolled part-time can
complete either two on-campus subjects per year for each of two years or two
on-campus subjects and two distance education subjects during semesters two and
three of one year. Ordinarily, students are to choose available units from each
of two or more study themes, thus creating new interdisciplinary areas of study
(eg clinical nutrition and metabolic medicine; paediatric sleep medicine;
metabolic medicine; paediatric infectious diseases; rural health and health
promotion and information; cardiovascular medicine; etc).
Students undertaking surgery as a speciality will be required to complete all
four units of the surgery subjects offered.
Two compulsory 12-credit-point clinical practice subjects in the chosen area of speciality (surgery, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, emergency medicine, cardiovascular medicine, health informatics, rural health, clinical nutrition or appropriate interdisciplinary combinations) are to be completed on-campus during this semester by a student enrolled full-time. A student enrolled part-time can complete one subject per year on-campus for each of two years, or undertake both subjects during semester three.
These subjects may be completed concurrently with semester one or two of the course, or be credited as recognition of prior learning:
Assessment methods used for each subject vary, but will include combinations of formal assignments, projects, literature evaluations, case studies and clinical participation.
Inquiries should be directed to Dr Karen Dawson, International Health and Development Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Victoria 3800.
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