Graduate Certificate in Health Professions Education
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 explores teaching and learning, assessment, research methods in health professions education and offers participants a range of options in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.
Course overview
- Course title
- Graduate Certificate in Health Professions Education
- Award abbreviation
- GradCertHPEd
- Course code
- 90210
- Course type
- postgraduate certificate
- Status
- current / 2020
- Administered by
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
- CRICOS code
- 058206G
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
- 24
A standard full-time load is 24 points per semester. - Standard course duration
- 0.5 years
- Time limit
- 2 years
- Delivery mode
- multi-mode
- Locations offered
- UWA (Perth)
- Domestic fee type
- Postgraduate fee-paying/FEE-HELP
- 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.
Course structure
| Key to availability of units: |
|---|
| S1 = Semester 1; S2 = Semester 2; N/A = not available in 2020 |
All units have a value of six points unless otherwise stated.
Note: Units that are indicated as N/A may be available in 2021 or 2022.
Take all units (18 points):
| Availability | Unitcode | Unitname | Unit requirements | Contact hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | IMED5801 | Principles of Teaching and Learning | seminars for two hour a week and online activities | |
| S1 | IMED5802 | Principles of Assessment and Evaluation |
| Face-to face Lectures 2hrs/ week, OR Multimode |
| S1, S2 | IMED5803 | Introduction to Research in Health Professions Education |
| Semester 1 Multi-mode (combination of face to face & online delivery) - 1 x 2 hr workshop/tutorial/week Semester 2 Online only |
Take unit(s) to the value of 6 points:
| Availability | Unitcode | Unitname | Unit requirements | Contact hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | IMED5804 | Clinical Teaching and Supervision | Three x 8 hour workshops when unit available face to face or complete the unit online | |
| S1, S2 | IMED5805 | Innovation and Contemporary Issues in Health Professions Education |
| This class is conducted entirely online |
| S1 | IMED5806 | Simulation and Interprofessional Learning in Health Professions Education |
| Offered either via online mode or via Multimode (Face to Face & Online) – Compulsory two day face to face workshop, optional three x 1.5 hour webinars throughout the semester |
| N/A | IMED5810 | Program Evaluation |
| |
| S2 | IMED5811 | Professional Portfolio |
| This class is conducted entirely online |
| S2 | IMED5831 | Advanced Simulation in Health Professional Education |
| Multimode (Face to Face & Online) – Compulsory two day face to face workshop, optional three x 1.5 hour webinars throughout the semester |
| N/A | IMED5832 | Interprofessional Education | 2 full-day workshops followed by 10 hours divided between on-campus and off-campus activities throughout the semester |
See also the rules for the course and the Student Rules.
Rules
Applicability of the Student Rules, policies and procedures
1.(1) The http://handbooks.uwa.edu.au/postgraduate/student-procedures'>student procedures apply, except as otherwise indicated in the rules for this course.
Academic Conduct Essentials module
2.(1) Except as stated in (2), 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).
(2) A student who has previously achieved a result of Ungraded Pass (UP) for the ACE module is not required to repeat the module.
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;
or
(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.
1A 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. The following courses form part of an articulated sequence:
- 90210 Graduate Certificate in Health Professions Education (24 points)
- 91340 Graduate Diploma in Health Professions Education (48 points)
Course structure
7.(1) The course consists of units to a total value of 24 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 in a calendar year a student must pass units to a value of at least 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 ACE 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. Students who fail to make satisfactory progress under Rule 8 are assigned a progress status of 'Excluded' by the Faculty.
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.