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The University of Notre Dame Australia

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Graduate Diploma of Health Leadership and Education

  • Graduate Diploma

The Graduate Diploma of Health Leadership and Education is designed for health leaders and educators, offering part-time online study to develop leadership and educational skills for health and academic contexts.

Key details

Degree Type
Graduate Diploma
Duration
1 - 5 semesters full-time, 1 - 5 semesters part-time
Course Code
4168
Study Mode
Online
Intake Months
Feb, Jul

About this course

Overview

Are you an emerging or established leader in health, who also works in an educational capacity, or is transitioning to an educational role within a clinical tertiary or academic setting? If so, the Graduate Diploma of Health Leadership and Education from The University of Notre Dame Australia is the ideal qualification for you. This postgraduate program is available part-time and is facilitated entirely online. You will complete coursework that develops a wide repertoire of both leadership and educational skills, specifically aimed at best practices across all health and academic contexts.

At The University of Notre Dame Australia, School of Medicine, we are dedicated to the provision of education that is designed and presented in collaboration with the health sector to support the translation of learning into practice. The Graduate Diploma of Health Leadership and Education further develops students' understanding of key leadership and health professional education principals in areas of interest to them.

Entry requirements

Entry requirements

  • As a minimum qualification, a recognised Bachelor degree in a health profession; or
  • A Bachelor degree in another (non-health) area with evidence of specific professional experience in health.

Study locations

Sydney

Fremantle

Online

What you will learn

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of the Graduate Diploma of Health Leadership and Education graduates will be able to:

  1. Effectively apply relevant theories to leadership and educational practice and scholarship in the health education context.
  2. Analyse contemporary issues within health leadership and education and their significant influence on the application of contemporary professional practice.
  3. Engage in critical reflection to promote life-long learning to maintain and improve professional knowledge and skills.
  4. Develop sophisticated understandings of the unique nature of learning, teaching and leadership in the clinical and professional health context.
  5. Engage with critical thinking to solve ethical dilemmas in the culturally and socially diverse healthcare environment.
  6. Develop initiatives that enhance best practice principles of leadership and education in the unpredictable workplace.
  7. Apply accomplished communication and negotiation skills to influence and achieve optimum outcomes in the health professional context.

Career pathways

Career opportunities

A Graduate Diploma of Health Leadership and Education can lead to private and public sector careers, including roles such as health manager, project evaluation/administration or policy officer, finance officer/chief finance officer, health business analyst, and health information officer. For those who graduates who choose more education-centred electives, this degree can lead to careers as a health professions educator, education researcher, staff development educator, medical educator, and clinical educator, across both the higher education settings, and within the public and private health sectors.

Course structure

Pathway options

The completion of the Graduate Certificate of either Health Leadership or Health Professional Education course requirements translates into an online-only learning experience in the Graduate Diploma year, through the combination of two core courses and two electives to engage students in areas of interest to them.

Two (2) compulsory courses from below:
  • Ethical Issues in Professional Life
  • Research Methods
Two (2) compulsory electives from below:
  • Health Leadership Stream
    • Contemporary Leadership in Health
    • Systems-Focused Thinking
  • Health Professional Education Stream
    • Reasoning and Clinical Innovation
    • Contemporary Issues in Health Professional Education and Leadership
    • Coaching and Supervision in Health
    • Learning and Facilitation in Health Professional Education
Direct entry optionTwo (2) compulsory courses from below:
  • Ethical Issues in Professional Life
  • Research Methods
Two (2) compulsory electives from below:
  • Health Leadership Stream
    • Contemporary Leadership in Health
    • Systems-Focused Thinking
  • Health Professional Education Stream
    • Reasoning and Clinical Innovation
    • Contemporary Issues in Health Professional Education and Leadership
    • Coaching and Supervision in Health
    • Learning and Facilitation in Health Professional Education
Plus, four (4) elective courses, chosen from:
  • The Australian Health Care System
  • Organisations: Power, Leadership and Transformation
  • Negotiation Skills
  • Strategic Workforce Issues
  • Leading Change
  • Leading Change in a Catholic Context
  • Accounting for Managers
  • Managerial Finance
  • Strategic Management and Planning
  • Introduction to the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching
  • Leadership in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Full details of the program requirements are contained in the Program Requirements.

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