Postgraduate: Course rule and topic information
Graduate Diploma in
Primary Health Care
(GradDipPHC)
Program of Study
NO NEW STUDENT INTAKE
INTRODUCTION
The Graduate Diploma in Primary Health Care is a 36-unit program offered by the Faculty of Health Sciences on a Commonwealth Supported basis.
It comprises 18 units of core topics and 18 units of electives chosen from the following specialist areas:
- Health Promotion
- Primary Health Care
- Primary Health Care Research and Evaluation
- Primary Health Care in Developing Countries
The course articulates with the Graduate Certificates offered by the Department of Public Health, the Master of Public Health, and the Doctor of Public Health and the sequentially developed topics allow progression through the awards.
Students who have completed the Graduate Certificate are normally awarded credit for 18 units of topics towards the Graduate Diploma.
COURSE AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES
The course provides an opportunity for health professionals to enhance their public health knowledge, skills and understanding in ways that enable them to better plan, develop, manage and evaluate initiatives and programs to promote health and prevent disease.
A wide range of teaching arrangements and methods is employed to achieve different topic aims and accommodate the diversity of candidates' backgrounds, experiences, understandings and locations.
COURSE RULE
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Applicants who do not hold a Graduate Certificate offered by the Department of Public Health must normally either:
- hold an approved degree or an equivalent qualification from an approved tertiary institution and have had not less than two years' approved postgraduate experience in primary health care; or
- have completed the final examination of a professional institution recognised by the Faculty Board and had not less than three years' approved postgraduate experience in primary health care; or
- hold another approved qualification and have had not less than three years' approved postgraduate experience in primary health care, public health or similar area.
Up to 20% of places may be reserved for candidates without any of the above qualifications but who have had at least five years' approved experience and are deemed by the Board to be suitable for admission.
The Board may also, under certain circumstances and subject to specific conditions, admit others who can show evidence of fitness for candidature.
PROGRAM OF STUDY
[November, 2008]
To qualify for the Graduate Diploma in Primary Health Care, a student must complete 36 units including the three core topics listed below, with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic, according to the following program of study.
Not all topics are necessarily available in a given year.
Except with permission of the Faculty Board, the program must be completed full-time in two consecutive semesters or part-time within six consecutive semesters.
Core Topics
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PHCA8001 |
Social Determinants of Health and Wellbeing |
6 |
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PHCA8008 |
Public Health: Frameworks for Change |
6 |
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PHCA8917 |
Evaluation in Public Health |
6 |
Elective topics
18 units of elective topics selected from the specialty areas listed above. The topics available in each specialty areas are listed in the entry for the Master of Public Health.
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