Flinders has been a leader in health and medical education and research in Australia since the mid 1970s, when the decision was taken to create a new School of Medicine and locate it within one of Adelaide's major public hospitals.
The School of Medicine and School of Nursing and Midwifery now offer a comprehensive range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including Australia's first graduate-entry medical program.
Biotechnology: Offered as an Honours degree program, Biotechnology combines biology with medicine and looks at the value of living organisms and their products for economic, social or health uses. Combined degree with Law and Legal Practice is available.
Disability and Community Rehabilitation: Flinders offers both a specialist degree and a certificate program, and a Disability Studies stream can be taken within the Bachelor of Health Sciences.
Environmental Health: An interesting and challenging degree with opportunities for honours and higher degree study, which prepares graduates for careers as environmental health professionals, mostly in local and state government.
Health Industry Management / Computing: Two specialist streams within the Bachelor of Health Sciences provide the knowledge and skills needed to manage modern health organisations and run their computing systems.
Health Promotion and Education: A major sequence within the Bachelor of Health Sciences, leading to a range of careers in hospital, community and government settings.
Health Sciences: A flexible degree leading to a range of careers in the modern health industry. Core health topics are combined with studies in either management, computer science, health promotion and education, the life sciences, or paramedic studies. Combined degrees programs in Health Sciences and Nursing and Health Sciences and Commerce and a major sequence in Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology) is available as well.
Medical Science: An innovative degree program which combines medical science with the basic sciences and leads to a variety of research positions in the health professions.
Medicine: One of Australia's most respected medical courses, and the first to be offered as a graduate-entry program which provides a greater range of opportunities for people seeking a medical career.
Midwifery: Two 1-year degree courses are offered - one for nurses seeking registration as a midwife and the other providing advanced training for practising midwives. Flinders also offers a three-year degree course for those without qualification.
Nursing: Different degree programs are offered, catering for new students, working nurses who want to upgrade their skills and qualifications, those looking to re-enter the profession and those with qualifications gained overseas.
Nutrition and Dietetics: This specialist degree involves the study of food in relation to health and illness and prepares graduates to work as professional nutritionists and dietitians.
Occupational Health and Safety: This specialty stream in Occupational Health and Safety is available in the Bachelor of Health Sciences as a conversion program for students who have completed the Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety from the Douglas Mawson Institute of TAFE.
Paramedic: [formerly Ambulance Studies] A specialist stream offered within the Bachelor of Health Sciences and leading to a career as a professional paramedic.
Speech Pathology: A degree course which prepares graduates to work with people with communication problems and swallowing disorders. An Honours year is available.
Associated courses include Biomedical Science, which looks at topics involved with the human body such as the molecular biology of disease or immunology and is offered within a Bachelor of Science, and a degree program in Biomedical Engineering, which can lead to careers designing, creating and using sophisticated medical equipment.
