Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education

This course is not offered in 2021.

This course is designed to meet the practice needs of educators working with healthcare professionals. It is aimed at a wide range of healthcare professionals including nursing, social work, medicine, pharmacy, psychology, physiotherapy, speech pathologists, dietetics, community health practitioners, occupational therapists and paramedics.

The course provides you with the opportunity to investigate and apply theory and evidence-based practice strategies that will enable you to design, assess and evaluate, face-to-face and online learning, supervise diverse learners in healthcare education contexts.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. demonstrate knowledge for effective and ethical teaching practices and the ability to reflect critically on learning and teaching performance in current contexts where health professional education occurs;
2. apply theoretical perspectives to learning, teaching and assessment, and critically reflect on their application to the education of health professionals;
3. design and apply learning programs and assessment strategies for the diversity of learners in a range of health professional education contexts;
4. demonstrate an understanding of the interrelated nature of learning and teaching for health professionals, universities and other education providers and health services;
5. apply and evaluate a range of face-to-face and online learning and teaching strategies; and
6. source, appraise and apply the best available evidence appropriate to the design and delivery of health professional education.