Graduate Diploma in Health Professions Education [91340] : Handbook 2025 : The University of Western Australia

Course overview

Description: This course fosters interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration and is designed to suit a range of health professionals who seek to develop their knowledge and skills as educators within the health professions. The course not only explores teaching and learning, assessment, and research methods in health professional education, but offers participants a range of option units from the School of Allied Health and the Graduate School of Education.
Course title: Graduate Diploma in Health Professions Education
Award abbreviation: GradDipHPEd
Course code: 91340
Course type: Postgraduate diploma
Status: Current / 2025
Administered by: Allied Health
CRICOS code: 058207F

Course details

Intake periods: Beginning of year only
Attendance type: Full- or part-time (Student visa holders should read Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000 for more information.)
Credit points required: 48
A standard full-time load is 24 points per semester.
Standard course duration: 1 year
Time limit: 3 years
Delivery mode: Multi-mode
Locations offered: UWA (Perth)
Domestic fee type: Commonwealth supported and/or HECS-HELP
Available to international students: Yes. For information on international student fees see 'Student Procedures: Fees'. (Enquiries: https://www.uwa.edu.au/askuwa)
Course Coordinator(s): Professor Sandra Carr
Fees: Visit the fees calculator.

Prospective students should see the Future Students website for details on admission requirements, intake periods, fees, availability to international students, careers information etc.

No study plans found for this course. See study plans for more information.

Specialisations

Course structure

Key to availability of units:

S1: Semester 1
S2: Semester 2
N/A: not available in 2025 – may be available in 2026 or 2027
NS: non-standard teaching period

All units have a value of six points unless otherwise stated.

Take unit(s) to a value of 30 points from Group A;

or

take unit(s) to a value of 18 points from Group A and unit(s) to a value of 12 points from Group B;

or

take unit(s) to a value of 24 points from Group A and options of an equivalent level to a value of 6 points from a course at this or another recognised institution as approved by the Faculty.

Take all units (18 points):

Availability	Unit code	Unitname	Unit requirements	Contact hours
S1	IMED5801	Principles of Teaching and Learning	None	Unit is available for online students using asynchronous learning. Students enrolled face to face attend 6 x seminars for two hours and complete the online activities
S1	IMED5802	Principles of Assessment and Evaluation	Prerequisites IMED5801 Principles of Teaching and Learning (may be taken concurrently as a corequisite)	Unit is available online using asynchronous learning methods.
S1, S2	IMED5803	Introduction to Research in Health Professions Education	Co-requisites IMED5801 Principles of Teaching and Learning (ID 3320)	Semester 1 - Unit is available face to face or online flexible. Semester 2 - Unit is online flexible

Group A

Availability	Unit code	Unitname	Unit requirements	Contact hours
S1	IMED5804	Clinical Teaching and Supervision	None	This unit is available online in asynchronous format of learning. The unit is also offered face to face through three x 8 hour workshops.
S2	IMED5805	Innovation and Contemporary Issues in Health Professions Education	Prerequisites IMED5801 Principles of Teaching and Learning (ID 3320)	This class is conducted entirely online
S1	IMED5806	Simulation and Interprofessional Learning in Health Professions Education	Co-requisites IMED5801 Principles of Teaching and Learning (ID 3320)	Face to face involves a compulsory two day face to face workshop, with the remaining content delivered online using asynchronous learning methods. Online flexible is delivered online using asynchronous learning methods
N/A	IMED5810	Program Evaluation	Prerequisites IMED5801 Principles of Teaching and Learning (may be taken concurrently as a corequisite)
S2	IMED5811	Professional Portfolio	Co-requisites Successful completion of IMED5801 Principles of Teaching and Learning (ID 3320)	This class is conducted entirely online
S2	IMED5813	Health Humanities: Education and Research	None	Unit will be offered via 2, 8 hour workshops face to face in the first week of semester
N/A	IMED5831	Advanced Simulation in Health Professional Education	Prerequisites Successful completion of 6 points Unit(s) IMED5806 Simulation and Interprofessional Learning in Health Professions Education Co-requisites Successful completion of IMED5806 Simulation and Interprofessional Learning in Health Professions Education	Face to face – Compulsory two day face to face workshop with online study activities throughout the semester
N/A	IMED5832	Interprofessional Education	None	2 full-day workshops followed by 10 hours divided between on-campus and off-campus activities throughout the semester

Group B

Availability	Unit code	Unitname	Unit requirements	Contact hours
NS	EDUC5608	Integrating Pedagogy and Technology	None	4 days of intensive teaching
S1	EDUC5610	Leading People, Culture and Change in Education	None	lectures/seminars: 2 hours per week (for 12 weeks)
S2	EDUC5612	Educational Leadership in Challenging Times	None	seminars: 2 hours per week for 12 weeks; offshore as required
S1	EDUC5633	Educational Research Analysis	None	Up to 30 hours
S1	EDUC5678	Improving Learning and Teaching in the Curriculum	None	lectures: 2.5 hours per week (for 10 weeks); offshore as required
S2	MGMT5508	Organisational Behaviour and Leadership	None	1-hour lecture and 2-hour workshop per week for 12 weeks
S1	PUBH5705	Health Program Evaluation	Incompatibility RMED4403 Health Program Evaluation (ID 4228)	lectures/tutorials 3.5 hours
NS	PUBH5763	Health Leadership and Management	None	One week full time, plus pre-intensive week readings.
NS	PUBH5801	Economic Evaluation of Health Care	Prerequisites PUBH5752 Health Systems and Economics (ID 3924)	1 week full-time
S2	PUBH5805	Qualitative Research Methods in Health	None	seminar: 3 hours per week

See also the rules for the course and the Student Rules.

Rules

Applicability of the Student Rules, policies and procedures
1.(1) The Student Rules apply to students in this course.
(2) The policy, policy statements and guidance documents and student procedures apply, except as otherwise indicated in the rules for this course.

Academic Conduct Essentials and Communication and Research Skills modules

2.(1) A student who enrols in this course for the first time irrespective of whether they have previously been enrolled in another course of the University, must undertake the Academic Conduct Essentials module (the ACE module) and the Communication and Research Skills module (the CARS module).

(2) A student must successfully complete the ACE module within the first teaching period of their enrolment. Failure to complete the module within this timeframe will result in the student's unit results from this teaching period being withheld. These results will continue to be withheld until students avail themselves of a subsequent opportunity to achieve a passing grade in the ACE module. In the event that students complete units in subsequent teaching periods without completing the ACE module, these results will similarly be withheld. Students will not be permitted to submit late review or appeal applications regarding results which have been withheld for this reason and which they were unable to access in the normally permitted review period.

English Language competency requirements

3.(1) To be considered eligible for consideration for admission to this course an applicant must satisfy the University's English language competence requirement as set out in the University Policy on Admission: Coursework, except as otherwise indicated in the rules for this course.

(2) Applicants presenting with the IELTS Academic require an overall score of at least 7.0 and no band less than 6.5.

Admission requirements

4. To be considered for admission to this course an applicant must have—

(a) a relevant bachelor's degree¹, or an equivalent qualification, as recognised by UWA;

(b) a level and duration of health-related education and professional experience considered by UWA to be sufficient to permit satisfactory completion of the course;

(c) completed the Graduate Certificate in Health Professions Education at UWA.

¹ A relevant bachelor's degree includes a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, and a bachelor's degree in a health, biomedical or biological sciences-related discipline.

Admission ranking and selection

5. Where relevant, admission will be awarded to the highest ranked applicants or applicants selected based on the relevant requirements.

Articulations and exit awards

6.(1) The following courses form part of an articulated sequence:

90210 Graduate Certificate in Health Professions Education (24 points)
90670 Master of Health Professions Education (96 points)
91340 Graduate Diploma in Health Professions Education (48 points)

(2) A student who withdraws from the Graduate Diploma in Health Professions Education course before completing it, but after fulfilling the requirements of a lesser award in the above sequence, may apply for the relevant award.

Course structure

7.(1) The course consists of units to a total value of 48 points.

(2) Units must be selected in accordance with the course structure, as set out in these rules.

Satisfactory progress

8. To make satisfactory progress a student must pass units to a point value greater than half the total value of units in which they remain enrolled after the final date for withdrawal without academic penalty.

9. A student who has not achieved a result of Ungraded Pass (UP) for the Communication and Research Skills module (the CARS module) when their progress status is assessed will not have made satisfactory progress even if they have met the other requirements for satisfactory progress in Rule 8.

Progress status

10.(1) A student who makes satisfactory progress in terms of Rule 8 is assigned the status of 'Good Standing'.

(2) Unless the relevant board determines otherwise because of exceptional circumstances—

(a) a student who does not make satisfactory progress for the first time under Rule 8 is assigned a progress status of 'On Probation';

(b) a student who does not make satisfactory progress for the second time under Rule 8 is assigned a progress status of 'Suspended';

(c) a student who does not make satisfactory progress for the third time under Rule 8 is assigned a progress status of 'Excluded'.

11. A student who does not make satisfactory progress in terms of Rule 9 is assigned the progress status of 'On Probation', unless they have been assigned a progress status of 'Suspended' or 'Excluded' for failure to meet other satisfactory progress requirements in Rule 8.

Award with distinction

12. This rule is not applicable to this course.

Deferrals

13. Applicants awarded admission to the course are entitled to a deferral of up to 12 months, as per the University Policy on: Admissions (Coursework).

Additional rules

Time limit

14. The time limit is three years from the date of first enrolment in the course.

[Approved exception to University Policy]

Enrolment

15. A student must enrol in at least one unit in each semester unless the Faculty permits otherwise in recognition of exceptional circumstances.

Credit

16.(1) If credit is granted for work completed through Continuing Education, its value will not exceed 12 points.

[Approved exception to University Policy]

(2) Unless the Faculty permits otherwise in recognition of exceptional circumstances, credit will normally only be granted for coursework completed within the last five years.

[Approved addition to University Policy]

UWA Handbook 2025