This
course, offered by the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine,
provides the skills necessary to manage clinical health care systems. The
course can be taken full-time over one year or part-time over two years and is
offered mostly by off-campus distributed learning (distance education) with
some compulsory block requirements each semester. This degree provides 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 psychosocial issues. This
course articulates with the Master of Health Services Management or the Master
of Public Health.
Applicants must have a medical degree, a bachelors degree with honours or
graduate diploma, or a three-year bachelors degree with at least two years
relevant professional experience in a health-related field. The department will
individually assess applications from students without a three-year degree but
with extensive relevant professional experience. 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 six core units and two elective options, comprising of two units.
RECOMMENDED FOR ARTICULATION INTO THE MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
Assessment includes web-based tasks, written assignments, examinations, and individual and group presentations.
Inquiries should be directed to the Postgraduate Office, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash Medical School, Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Prahran, Victoria 3181 on telephone (03) 9903 0563. Email pgradenq@med.monash.edu.au, website http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/postgrad
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