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The University of Notre Dame Australia

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Graduate Diploma of Health Professional Education

  • Graduate Diploma

Are you a health educator who wishes to formalise knowledge and skills in health education? The Graduate Diploma of Health Professional Education at The University of Notre Dame Australia is your ideal qualification.

Key details

Degree Type
Graduate Diploma
Duration
1 year full-time
Study Mode
Online

About this course

School of Medicine

Are you a health educator who wishes to formalise knowledge and skills in health education? The Graduate Diploma of Health Professional Education at The University of Notre Dame Australia is your ideal qualification. This flexible postgraduate program is facilitated entirely online for health professionals who perform an educational function or who are transitioning to an educational role in a clinical tertiary or academic setting. Contact us today to advance your career.

Entry requirements

  • A Bachelor's degree or its equivalent in a health professional field
  • Active involvement in health professional education

Study locations

Sydney

Fremantle

Online

What you will learn

As a health educator, you probably recognise that although health educators have extensive knowledge and skills in their professional discipline, the art and science of passing knowledge from one generation to the next are often overlooked in the context of demanding clinical, teaching, and research responsibilities.

Education has always been at the core of what it means to practise in the health sciences. Health professionals accept that, as part of their role, they will be involved in educating new generations of health professionals.

The truth is that many health professionals have no formal training in educational theory. Furthermore, busy schedules leave little time for improving your educational knowledge and skills by attending scheduled courses or workshops. For this reason, the Graduate Diploma of Health Professional Education offers knowledge and skills in a flexible and contextualised manner to health professionals who are also tertiary educators.

The Graduate Diploma of Health Professional Education provides a pathway for health professionals interested in developing their knowledge and skills in education, aiming to become exemplary educators and educational role models. Over the course of your studies, you will gain a sound understanding of contemporary learning theory and a vast repertoire of educational skills aimed explicitly at best practice in modern health education contexts.

Career pathways

A Graduate Diploma in Health Professional Education will give you the skills and knowledge to pursue an education role in the following fields: medicine, nursing and allied health services.

Course structure

Year One

  • Learning & Facilitation in Health Professional Education
  • Contemporary Issues in Health Professional Education & Leadership
  • Coaching & Supervision in Health
  • Reasoning & Clinical Innovation

Year Two

  • Ethical Issues in Professional Life
  • Research Methods
  • Designing Curriculum for Effective Learning
  • Principles and Practice of Assessment and Evaluation

More information regarding courses can be found at the course descriptions page.

Full details of the program requirements are contained in the Program Requirements.