Postgraduate - Course3878 - Master of Emergency Health

This course is designed for emergency health practitioners interested in improving their clinical knowledge and aspiring to leadership positions in their field of practice. Students will have the opportunity to examine emergency health care from clinical and systems perspectives using local and international context and be able to enrol in a stream of study relevant to emergency health that advances their clinical knowledge. In the last year of the course students will study clinical research in emergency health and have the option of undertaking a clinical project or studying clinical improvement, education or leadership to develop the professional attributes and skills required to practice at an advanced level.

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate AttributesAustralian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate Attributes (http://opvclt.monash.edu.au/curriculum-by-design/aligning-course-outcomes-with-aqf-bologna.html).

Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that graduates will be able to:

• apply an appropriate ethical and professional construct as an emergency care provider to the field of community based emergency health
• demonstrate personal and professional development through critical review of their own clinical practice and identification of suitable learning experiences to meet their developmental needs
• identify local and global networks that support and enhance community based emergency health practice
• demonstrate clinical competence in the community based emergency health setting using a patient-centric, systematic clinical approach, that utilises effective communication techniques and advanced clinical problem solving
• identify, describe, design and evaluate enhancements to community based emergency health practice using the best available evidence and appropriate frameworks
• review, analyse, consolidate and synthesise a variety of resources in order to respond to community based emergency health issues.

Assessment

Assessment will be a mixture of written assignments and examinations. For clinical units, clinical simulation and professionalism assessment will form part of the assessment mix.

This course consists of core units and electives. Some of the required electives may be taken to form a particular stream.

• Emergency health

Level four

General stream

Students must complete:

• 48 credit points of units from relevant graduate programs within the Department of Community Emergency Health and Paramedic PracticeDepartment of Community Emergency Health and Paramedic Practice (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/index-byou-department-of-community-emergency-health-and-paramedics.html), the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health SciencesFaculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/index-byfaculty-med.html) and/or the UniversityUniversity (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/) as approved by the course coordinator.

Suitable units can also be identified using the browse units toolbrowse units tool (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/search) in the current edition of the Handbook. Note: Some units may require permission from the owning faculty. The level of the unit is indicated by the first number in the unit code; postgraduate units are those that commence with the numbers 4-5.

MICA paramedic stream

Students complete the following core units:

Summer semester

• PAR4400 Theoretical foundations of intensive care paramedic practice
• PAR4410 Pharmacological basis of intensive care paramedicine

Semester one

• PAR4420 Emergency management of cardiac conditions
• PAR4430 Emergency management of respiratory conditions
• PAR4440 Emergency management of trauma and environmental conditions
• PAR4470 Intensive care paramedicine clinical practicum

Semester two

• PAR4450 Emergency management of paediatric and obstetric patients
• PAR4460 Transition to clinical intensive care paramedicine

Intensive care paramedic stream

Students complete the following core units:

Summer semester

• PAR4400 Theoretical foundations of intensive care paramedic practice
• PAR4410 Pharmacological basis of intensive care paramedicine

Semester one

• PAR4420 Emergency management of cardiac conditions
• PAR4430 Emergency management of respiratory conditions
• PAR4440 Emergency management of trauma and environmental conditions
• PAR4480 Emergency management of medical conditions

plus two elective units as approved by the course coordinator from:

• PAR4450 Emergency management of paediatric and obstetric conditions
• PAR4460 Transition to professional practice
• PAR4470 Clinical practicum
• PAR4490 Extended care paramedicine
• PAR4200 Foundations of Aeromedical and retrieval practice
• PAR4210 Aeromedical and retrieval professional practice

Level five

Core units (24 points) as follows:

• MEH5010 Research methods in emergency health
• MEH5011 Emergency health: Evidence based practice

plus one of the following options:

• MEH5050 Emergency health project (the topic must be approved by the course coordinator)
• 12 points from any relevant graduate program within the Department of Community Emergency Health and Paramedic PracticeDepartment of Community Emergency Health and Paramedic Practice (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/index-byou-department-of-community-emergency-health-and-paramedics.html), the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health SciencesFaculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/index-byfaculty-med.html) and/or the UniversityUniversity (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/) as approved by the course coordinator .

Students wishing to exit this course may apply to graduate with one of the following, provided they have satisfied the requirements for that award:

• 3876 Graduate Certificate in Emergency Health
• 3877 Graduate Diploma of Emergency Health.

Master of Emergency Health