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Graduate Diploma in Medicine (Critical Care Medicine)

  • Graduate Diploma

The Critical Care Medicine program has been designed by critical care clinicians for doctors interested in emergency medicine, anaesthetics and intensive care medicine.

Key details

Degree Type
Graduate Diploma
Duration
1 year full-time, 2 - 3 years part-time
Course Code
GNMEDICI2CCM
Study Mode
In person
Domestic Fees
$10,958 per year / $10,958 total
International Fees
$46,500 per year / $46,500 total

About this course

 

The Critical Care Medicine program has been designed by critical care clinicians for doctors interested in emergency medicine, anaesthetics and intensive care medicine.

Clinical and academic leaders will help you develop the knowledge and skills needed to become a well-rounded, informed and analytical clinician. Designed for busy working doctors, this course is delivered online with some units of study that include intensive (1 or 2 day) face-to-face workshops.

The structure of the program is flexible and allows you to pace your study and tailor your learning to your needs and interests. Coursework is provided in anatomy, pathology, physiology and pharmacology to help you prepare for college barrier examinations. In anaesthetics and intensive care medicine, you can pursue highly coveted expertise in neuromonitoring, pain management, mechanical ventilation or extracorporeal life support. If emergency medicine is your interest, you may choose coursework in retrieval medicine, point of care ultrasound or clinical reasoning and communication.

There are a wide range of subject areas to choose from and you can develop valuable non-technical skills in teaching, simulation and research.

New units for 2018/2019

  • Point of Care Ultrasound: this ASUM accredited course will help you develop essential expertise in performing e-FAST, AAA, vascular access, DVT studies, renal, hepatobiliary, basic echo and early pregnancy scans, integral to the management of critically ill patients.
  • Mechanical Ventilation: explore clinical scenarios to understand mechanical ventilation, ventilator waveforms, and measured data.
  • Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS): this unit will help you develop skills in ECMO, ECCO2R, VAD and Impella: common indications, contraindications, ECLS physiology and technology.
  • Resource Limited Critical Care: gain an understanding of the clinical, educational and logistic challenges of working in low and middle-income countries and disaster management and preparedness.

Entry requirements

Minimum Prior Qualification
Bachelor

Study locations

Camperdown/Darlington