Graduate Diploma in Forensic Medicine

• General information
• Course structure
  • First year
    • Core units
  • Second year
    • Elective units
• Assessment
• Inquiries

General information

The Graduate Diploma in Forensic Medicine, which will be taught primarily by off-campus distributed learning, is offered by the Department of Forensic Medicine and can be taken part-time over two years. The course, through its generic core units as well as unit 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 units

Students will be required to complete all the following core units:

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

Second year

Elective units

Students will be required to complete three of the following elective units:

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

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, a casebook and oral presentations.

Inquiries

Inquires should be directed to the course administrator, Ms Deborah Hope, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, Monash University, 57 -- 83 Kavanagh Street, Southbank, Victoria 3006 on telephone (03) 9684 4423. Email deborah@vifp.monash.edu.au

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