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 learning 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, telephone (03) 9903 0563 or email pgradenq@med.monash.edu.au. Website http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/postgrad.
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