Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education

Graduate Certificate

This course is not offered in 2021. This course is designed to meet the practice needs of educators working with healthcare professionals.

Key details

Degree Type

Graduate Certificate

Duration

1 trimester full-time, 6 trimesters part-time

Course Code

GCHProfEd

About this course

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.

Entry requirements

A candidate shall:

(a) have successfully completed a relevant AQF Level 7 Bachelor degree in a health or related discipline from a recognised university in Australia or overseas;

or

(b)

satisfy UNE by means of other relevant* professional experience by submitting a Statement of Service from your employer/s and/or a resume outlining a minimum of three years' full-time (or equivalent) relevant* professional experience.

* Relevant disciplines include, but are not limited to: Counselling, psychology, social work, nursing, teaching, human resources, life coaching, community services, children's services, youth work, care for the aged, care for the disabled, residential client care, welfare studies, human welfare studies, pastoral care and medicine.

What you will learn

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

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;
apply theoretical perspectives to learning, teaching and assessment, and critically reflect on their application to the education of health professionals;
design and apply learning programs and assessment strategies for the diversity of learners in a range of health professional education contexts;
demonstrate an understanding of the interrelated nature of learning and teaching for health professionals, universities and other education providers and health services;
apply and evaluate a range of face-to-face and online learning and teaching strategies; and
source, appraise and apply the best available evidence appropriate to the design and delivery of health professional education.

Career pathways

Graduates of this course will be prepared to assume beginning health professional education roles across a range of healthcare disciplines, roles and contexts. This course is designed to reflect a range of health reform agendas to build health educator capacity in a range of settings.

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Health Services & Support courses at University of New England (UNE).

80.8%

Overall satisfaction

76.9%

Skill scale

61.5%

Teaching scale

96.8%

Employed full-time

Data source