Master of Emergency Health

NOTE: This course has had one or more changes made to it since publication on 1 October 2014. For details of changes, please consult the Handbook change registerHandbook change register (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2015handbooks/2015-change-register.html).

This course will support students in improving their clinical practice and knowledge related to the delivery of emergency health services and help prepare them for clinical leadership, education and research positions. Students will extend their clinical practice by initially undertaking specialist intensive care paramedicine training in advanced clinical leadership and decision making as well as advanced techniques in order to enable graduates to provide the highest level of paramedic care for cardiac, respiratory, medical, trauma and environmental emergencies. The student will explore clinical practice within an integrated emergency medical system and consider the issues and trends that influence scope of practice and service delivery. Students will also study clinical research methodology and may choose to complete a research project. Students will complete study in clinical research methodology for emergency health and have the option of undertaking a clinical project or other electives from the electives suite in order to facilitate clinical practice at an advanced or extended-care 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://monash.edu/pubs/handbooks/alignmentofoutcomes.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.

This course consists of core units and electives. Some of the required electives may be taken to form a particular stream. All units are 6 points unless otherwise indicated.

Students complete the following:

(a.) foundation units (12 points):

• PAR4400 Theoretical foundations of intensive care paramedic practice
• PAR4410 Foundations of pharmacotherapy and clinical toxicology in emergency health

(b.) core clinical units (24 points):

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

(c.) one of the following research unit options (12 points):

• MPH5040 Introductory epidemiology and MPH5041 Introductory biostastistics
• SRH5003 Designing and conducting health research (12 points)

(d.) 24 points of elective units from:

• MEH5050 Emergency health project (12 points) (the topic must be approved by the course coordinator)
• PAR4450 Intensive care management of paediatric and obstetric patients
• 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
• 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.

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.

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.