Graduate Certificate of Health and Medical Research

Graduate Certificate

Help improve the lives and communities we serve by driving evidence-based solutions that have a real-world impact across Australia and around the globe.

Key details

Degree Type

Graduate Certificate

Course Code

H523, 110775D

About this course

Help improve the lives and communities we serve by driving evidence-based solutions that have a real-world impact across Australia and around the globe. Deakin's Graduate Certificate of Health and Medical Research provides the opportunity to advance your career in clinical research; offering a unique and fast-tracked pathway to PhD study for graduates of undergraduate and postgraduate courses where the requirements for PhD entry have not been fulfilled.

Are you ready to participate in cutting-edge research and drive change in your field?

Under the guidance of some of the Australia's leading researchers and benefiting from access to world-class facilities, you will graduate with skills highly sought after for academia, research institutes, hospitals, medical bodies, as well as government health and science agencies.

Additionally, the unique structure of this course allows the minimum requirements for PhD entry at Deakin University, which is a 2 credit point research thesis, to be met as well as providing experiential training around project planning, execution, presentation, and thesis writing.

Upon completing this course students will have utilised and improved on a range of skills such as critical thinking, complex problem solving, communication, and technical skills due to the composition of assessment tasks in research training, including ethics, and experiential research to demonstrate discipline specific knowledge and capabilities.

Career pathways

Not applicable

Course structure

To complete the Graduate Certificate of Health and Medical Research students must attain 4 credit points, all unit are core (these are compulsory).

All commencing Faculty of Health Undergraduate and Postgraduate course work students are required to complete DAI001 Academic Integrity Module (0-credit-point compulsory unit) in their first trimester of study.

Students are required to meet the University's academic progress and conduct requirements.

Credit for prior study or work

Recognition of prior learning (RPL) is available for students that have previously achieved equivalent learning outcomes for HMH811 and HMH701. A maximum of 2 credit points can be granted via RPL.

Doctor of Medicine (H911) students who have completed the first 2 years of study will be eligible for 1 credit point of RPL from HMH811. Doctor of Medicine (H911) graduates will be eligible for 2 credit points of RPL from HMH811 and HMH701.

Master of Optometry (D302) graduates will be eligible for 2 credit points of RPL for HMH811 and HMH701.