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Postgraduate handbook 2005 - Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Graduate Diploma in Health Services Management

Course code: 2314

Course description

This course, offered by the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, 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.

Entry requirements

Applicants must have an undergraduate degree in an appropriate discipline and relevant professional experience. The department will individually assess applications from students without a three-year degree. In such instances, the department may require completion of the Graduate Certificate in Health Services Management before enrolling in the graduate diploma.

Course structure

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. Students are required to complete six core units and one elective option.

Core units
Elective units
Option one*

* Recommended for articulation into the Master of Public Health.

Option two

Assessment

Assessment includes web-based tasks, written assignments, examinations, and individual and group presentations.

Inquiries

Postgraduate Office
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Central and Eastern Clinical School
The Alfred Hospital
Melbourne, Victoria 3004
Australia
Telephone: +61 3 9903 0563
Email: pgradenq@med.monash.edu.au
Website: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/pgrad

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