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Monash University Postgraduate Diploma in Health Economics and Evaluation Course code: 0967 • Course abbreviation: PGradDipHlthEcEv • Total credit points required: 48 • 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time • Managing faculty: Business and Economics Study mode and course location On-campus (Clayton) Course description This course is designed to provide students who already possess a basic degree in economics with the skills necessary to pursue a future career as academic or policy-oriented economists, as administrators in the health sector or as health-care evaluators. It introduces economists to the basic concepts of epidemiology and bioethics and trains participants in research methods by having them undertake a project during their placement at an approved institution. Course objectives The learning goals associated with this course are to: demonstrate a rigorous theoretical analysis using the disciplines of economics, health economics and health policy to the analysis of health care policy and institutions; demonstrate analytical skills in economics in an examination of the role of incentives in the achievement of health care objectives; apply technical skills in economic evaluation to the performance of a sophisticated economic evaluation of a health intervention; apply their training from the course in an institutional setting through a supervised work placement. Course structure The postgraduate diploma consists of four compulsory and three elective units plus a three-month placement unit, health industry based learning, (normally undertaken during the summer semester). Course requirements (a) students must complete four core units (24 points): ECC4870 Health economics ECC4990 Economic evaluation of health services ECX5465 Microeconomics MPH1040 Introductory epidemiology (b) students must complete three units (18 points) from the following list: BTX9300 Health services law CHB5102 Questions of life and death CHB5203 Ethical issues in patient care ECC4270 Law and economics ECC4810 Public finance ECC4830 Welfare economics ECX4000 Reading unit in applied health economics ECX5466 Macroeconomics ECX5470 Restrictive trade practices ECX5479 Cost-benefit analysis ECX5484 Economics of industry, institution and organisation ETC4410 Applied econometrics ETC5420 Microeconometrics ETX5443 Quantitative economic policy (c) students must complete one industry-based learning unit (6 points): ECC5710 Health industry-based learning Fieldwork A three-month placement (ECC5710) must be conducted at an institution acceptable to the course coordinator. During the placement the student is expected to complete an applied project under the direction of a supervisor. The project constitutes part of the formal assessment. Progression to further studies Students who successfully complete the Postgraduate Diploma in Health Economics and Evaluation with an average of 70 per cent or above may consider applying for the Master of Philosophy. Contact details Centre for Health Economics: telephone +61 3 9905 0733; email: che@buseco.monash.edu.au Course coordinators Associate Professor and Anthony Harris, Ms Jenny Watts