Graduate Diploma
The Graduate Diploma of Tactical Medicine will provide you with the knowledge, the clinical skills and clinical reasoning required to deal with the complex challenges of treating acute critically ill or injured patients in dynamic and high threat environments. You will learn to assess, plan, prepare and implement strategies for successful operations and patient management within a tactical environment. As well as gaining new clinical knowledge, you will further develop your assessment and diagnostic skills and interventions in the management of diverse population groups. These new competencies can be applied in direct threat, indirect threat and prolonged field care environments. Similar to the Graduate Certificate in Tactical Medicine, this course will be of interest to you if you are a clinician involved with mass casualty and terrorist attack response plans, search and rescue, or remote and wilderness medical support services.
Entry Requirements:
To be eligible for entry into this course, applicants must demonstrate one of the following:
Employment and clinical experience must be demonstrated by providing a letter of employment or an official statement of service, listing duties undertaken and length of time employed in the relevant position. Letters of employment must be presented on a company letterhead and signed and dated by a delegated authority within the organisation.
English test results remain valid for no more than two years between final examination date and the date of commencement of study, and must appear on a single result certificate.
There are no specific security requirements for entry into this course.
There are no specific health requirements for entry into this course.
There is no recommended pre-study required for entry into this course.
The Graduate Diploma in Tactical Medicine is a professional development course aimed at training health professionals to respond to and manage acute medical emergencies at critical care level in high-risk environments where their personal safety may still be under threat. It will also allow those with relevant qualifications to enter the fast-growing field of tactical medicine. Additionally, this course will provide transferable knowledge that can be applied in the resource limited medical contracting, search and rescue and expedition medicine environments.