Postgraduate: Course rule and topic information

Graduate Certificate in
Clinical Rehabilitation

(GradCertClinRehab)

INTRODUCTION

The Graduate Certificate in Clinical Rehabilitation is an 18-unit program offered by the Faculty of Health Sciences on a fee-paying basis.

This course will allow students to undertake a general studies option or select a specialty stream in either the pulmonary, neurological or psychosocial aspects of clinical rehabilitation. All of the aforementioned specialties will utilise existing topics and will be available in external mode only. A clinical practice stream is also offered and is available full-time over one semester in internal mode (on campus).

The course articulates with the Graduate Diploma in Clinical Rehabilitation and Pathway 1 of the Master of Clinical Rehabilitation, with the sequentially developed topics allowing progression through the three awards.

Students who have completed the graduate certificate normally are awarded credit for 18 units of topics towards the graduate diploma.

COURSE AIMS

The course aims to provide the opportunity for individuals from any professional background who are working in health related areas to deepen the knowledge base on which their practice is grounded.

Specifically, the course aims:

• to introduce the principles and practice of clinical rehabilitation and how these concepts can be applied to professional practice;
• to model a multidisciplinary approach to problem solving, assessment and management within professional practice;
• to provide an opportunity for students to tailor their study to an area relevant to practice in their professional workplace or specific field of interest.

Students can expect to graduate with:

• an understanding of the principles and practice of clinical rehabilitation;
• an understanding of the roles of various disciplines in clinical rehabilitation;
• the skills necessary to plan, evaluate and analyse a rehabilitation plan for a variety of conditions that present in the clinical rehabilitation setting;
• the skills necessary to plan and evaluate a rehabilitation program or service;
• an understanding of diagnosis, assessment and management of a variety of conditions that present in the clinical rehabilitation setting;
• the analytical skills and independence of thought necessary to question and analyse current theories and views in the area of clinical rehabilitation.

COURSE RULE

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Applicants normally must hold an approved degree or equivalent qualification from an approved institution. However, the Faculty Board may, under certain circumstances and subject to specific conditions, admit others who can show evidence of fitness for candidature.

PROGRAM OF STUDY [November, 2007]

To qualify for the Graduate Certificate in Clinical Rehabilitation, a student must complete 18 units with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic, according to the program of study below.

Students undertake the core topic:

then 12 units in one of the following streams:

any 12 units selected from the following:

any two of the following: