Graduate Diploma in Occupational and Environmental Health

• General information
• Course structure
  • Core units
  • Elective units
    • Option one*
    • Option two
  • Electives
• Assessment
• Inquiries

General information

This course, offered by the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, gives health professionals the attitudes, skills and knowledge necessary to provide preventive health services to reduce the health impact of disease and injury resulting from workplace and community factors. The course can be taken full-time over one year or part-time over two years and is offered by off-campus distributed learning (distance education) with compulsory block requirements each semester. This degree caters for the special needs of medical practitioners, nurses, allied health personnel, scientists and OHS managers. The course articulates with the Master of Occupational and Environmental Health 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 Occupational Health before enrolling in the graduate diploma.

Course structure

This course is comprised of five core units and two elective options, comprising of three units.

Core units

• MPH2022 Assessment and control of workplace hazards
• MPH2026 Industry and the environment
• MPH2041 Occupational health and safety management
• MPH2043 Chemical and biological hazards
• MPH2044 Ergonomics and physical hazards

Elective units

Option one*

• MPH1040 Introductory epidemiology
• MPH1041 Introductory biostatistics
• One elective

RECOMMENDED FOR ARTICULATION INTO THE MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Option two

• ECX9720 Introduction to epidemiology and biostatistics
• Two electives

Electives

• MPH1008 Clinical occupational and environmental medicine
• MPH1039 Critical appraisal of OH information
• MPH2042 Organisations and health (not offered in 2002)
• MPH2045 Principles of health risk assessment
• MPH2056 Injury epidemiology and prevention
• MPH2076 Safety management systems

Assessment

Assessment includes web-based tasks, written assignments, examinations, practical exercises and student presentations.

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 on telephone (03) 9903 0563. Email pgradenq@med.monash.edu.au, website http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/postgrad/

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