Overview 2021
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Course objectives
- To understand and apply the principles of health care and human service improvement
- To understand the broad social, political and economic context of service provision
- To understand and apply the principles of translational research
- To prepare an ethics approval application.
- To understand and apply an appropriate research methodology.
- To appropriately scope a localised research project.
- To conduct a relevant and critical literature review and develop a rationale for their proposed topic.
- To conduct a pilot study, if relevant, and to conduct the research project itself.
- To evaluate the outcomes of the project.
Career outcomes
Enhancement of their role as professionals able to evaluate, produce and integrate evidence into practice.
Professional Recognition
Will be sought from various professional bodies.
Course structure
Bachelor of Health (Professional Honours)
Year 1
Globally, health systems are tasked with responding to contemporary challenges and the related disease burden and health needs of their population. This unit takes a systems approach to examine how health systems are designed, the key components, who pays, and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 |
This unit provides a framework for understanding the links between knowledge and practice. It is also designed to encourage the development of the capacity of health service leaders to identify and evaluate emerging knowledge relevant to their practice, and to…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Hobart | Spring school (extended) |
View all details for CAM538 Translational Research and Health Service Innovation
This unit prepares students to undertake the Major Workplace Project Parts A and B. You will learn about applied research in the workplace setting, undertaking a literature review, preparing a needs assessment, choosing appropriate methodologies, preparing an ethics application, engaging…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Year2
This unit equips students with an understanding of the research methods used in health services in order to interpret published research, and design research of their own. Unit content includes the theoretical underpinning of both qualitative and quantitative research methods,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 |
Major Projects Part A and B are the final part of your Masters degree that provide an opportunity to undertake a substantial piece of original, independent research, building on and focussed on the topic or topics that are of particular…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 |
Major Projects Part A and B are the final part of your Masters degree that provides an opportunity to undertake a substantial piece of original, independent research, building on and focussed on the topic or topics that are of particular…
Credit Points: 25
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Rozelle - Sydney | Semester 2 |
Electives
This unit will provide students with an overview of the principles, theories and practice of learning and teaching in higher education. The focus of the unit is the application of that knowledge to the context of educating health professionals in…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for CAM502 Foundations of Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals
The purpose of this unit is to promote the continuous enhancement of your professional practice in learning and teaching in health services settings. This is achieved primarily by helping you to apply knowledge of the principles underpinning critical reflection and…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
In this unit, you explore the principles, theories and practice of teaching, learning and assessment in health professional education. Engagement in seminars supported critical reading of relevant literature provide opportunities to develop an informed approach to teaching. The experience of…
Credit Points: 25
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit will focus on developing one's own teaching practice. It uses a peer-based approach, utilising peer observation and peer review of teaching. Participants will assess learning needs, plan and present teaching sessions, and use feedback from students, colleagues and…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
is unit provides a framework for effective leadership and supervision - supervision in context, direct supervision, constructive feedback, dimensions of supervision, quality of the supervisory relationship and training for supervisors. On completion, participants should have a better understanding of helpful…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM521 Supervision & Leadership, Theory, Process & Practice
Systems thinking is an approach to public health that allows us to understand and manage complex problems. The purpose of this unit is to introduce key systems thinking concepts and practical methods to address complexity to improve the health of…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM530 Systems Thinking in Public Health
This unit explores the principles, theories and practice of epidemiology. Students are provided with a comprehensive introduction to the collection and interpretation of epidemiological data within the framework of health. The unit content covers the broad areas of disease distribution,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 |
This unit introduces the scope of public health practice in the 21st century and the social, political and economic context within which public health practitioners operate. The unit combines theoretical and practical material to assist students to understand the social…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 |
This unit relates to, and builds upon, the Management and Leadership Foundation Program run by the Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services. While it is an advantage for students to have commenced the Foundation Program, it is not a…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for CAM537 Foundations in Health and Human Services
This unit provides health and human service professionals with the opportunity to critically analyse a range of contemporary leadership frameworks and theories. There is a focus on the exploration and practical application of theories and techniques to improve understanding of…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM539 Leadership in Health and Human Services
This unit will use a journal club/seminar format. Senior academics and clinicians will lead discussions on emerging issues in health professional education. Participants are expected to attend and participate in 80% of scheduled meetings.…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for CAM607 Contemporary Issues in Health Professional Education
This unit is designed to provide information about the core concepts and skills for clinical supervision in the health professions. Students in this unit will explore current literature and research on clinical supervision theory and practice, and critically review models…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 |
View all details for CAM609 Clinical Supervision in Health Professions
This unit will provide a broad understanding of current environmental health concepts. Students undertaking this course will gain insight into how our health is influenced by our environments and ecology, and the likely impacts of climate change and benefits of…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 |
This broad unit introduces students to the interrelationship between health law and ethics, strategic planning, financial resource management and health policy development. It aims to help students develop a clear understanding of the dynamics of the healthcare environment and the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM620 Management in Health and Human Services
This unit examines current concepts, trends and barriers in risk, risk management and governance including clinical governance. In particular it explores the content and relationship between medico-legal issues; clinical error; consumer rights and services; occupational health systems; quality of service…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 |
Positive psychology addresses the conditions and processes that enable people, groups and institutions to flourish and function at an optimal level. The aim of this unit is to gain a clear understanding of the essential elements to leadership, and to…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM622 Positive Psychology & Leadership
The aims of this unit are: to introduce fundamental concepts of biostatistics and provide a background in descriptive and analytical methods that are used to estimate association between variables. This unit covers statistical theory, data entry and manipulation methods, data…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
This unit explores communicable diseases of humans from an epidemiological perspective. It provides an introductory overview of the basic biological knowledge needed to understand the interactions within and between populations of microbes, human and other animals. Students will learn to…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM626 Communicable disease epidemiology
This unit builds upon the courses CAM528 'Introduction to Epidemiology' and CAM625 'Introduction to Biostatistics'. It will consolidate and expand the knowledge on epidemiology and teach biostatistics in an applied manner. The goal is to introduce the realities of data…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for CAM627 Extended Epidemiology and Biostatistics
This unit aims to provide participants with a basic understanding of health economics, its value and limitations. It will familiarise participants with the application of economic theory to health and health care issues, and review and analyse policy and practice…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 |
Life course epidemiology explores the long term influences on health of exposures occurring earlier in life, for example during gestation, infancy, childhood or earlier in adulthood. This unit examines the principles, theories and practice of this important field of epidemiology,…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This is a major piece of work to complete a Master of Health (Medical Education). Candidates are required to work closely with a supervisor throughout the term of the study. The overall length should be between 15,000 -20,000 words. Accuracy,…
Credit Points: 25
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Launceston | Semester 1 | ||||
Cradle Coast | Semester 1 |
This unit explores the nature of change within the broader environmental and organisational context. It will include exploration of current theories and research around issues relating to leading and managing change as well as diffusion of innovation. Strategies for successful…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM722 Leading and Managing Change in Health and Human Services
Considers the increasing impact of technology in contemporary society with a particular focus on health services. The unit explores some current applications of health informatics and identifies a number of issues associated with the use of technology in health care.…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 1 |
View all details for CRH500 Introduction to Health Informatics
This unit will enable students to critically evaluate the theory, practice and processes for managing data in the healthcare system. The foundations of health data, information, knowledge and wisdom will be introduced, including the concept of information architecture. Methods and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 1 |
This unit explores privacy and security issues arising from the use of information and communications technologies in the health care environment. The unit explores legal concepts and issues, with an emphasis on the privacy of health information and explores this…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 2 |
View all details for CRH503 E-health Privacy and Security Issues
This unit explores the evolution of the electronic health record (EHR). It examines the definition and context of the EHR, records management, the benefits and barriers of EHRs, the national health information agenda, the EHR as a socio-technical tool, ethical…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 2 |
Students completing this unit will have acquired knowledge about monitoring and measuring performance within a quality framework; apply knowledge of monitoring and measuring the quality of performance in complex simulated work contexts.…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 2 |
View all details for CNA419 Monitoring and Measuring Performance
Students completing this unit will have acquired knowledge about workplace culture and its impact on quality service delivery; to acquire knowledge about factors that facilitate or act as barriers to the development of a quality-culture in the workplace; apply this…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 2 |
View all details for CNA420 The Quality Culture and implementing quality improvements
Students completing this unit will have acquired knowledge of existing health service models, the internal and external factors that influence the delivery of quality services, and the best-practice models for quality service design.…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 1 | ||||
Launceston | Semester 2 |
View all details for CNA423 Introduction to Quality Health Services
Students completing this unit will have acquired knowledge of existing health service models; the internal and external factors that influence the delivery of quality services, and the best-practice models for quality service design.…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 1 |
Project Management for Health Professionals provides students with the foundational knowledge required to appreciate and implement practical approaches to project management in health sciences. Students will extend their skills in incorporating research evidence into health care practice through developing skills…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 1 |
View all details for CNA613 Project Management for Health Professionals
This unit consists of three modules.The first module introduces students to the core principal and theories of learning and teaching. Moduletwo enhances students' skills by exploring methods of teaching, and adapting teaching to a wide range of audiences and working…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 2 |
View all details for CNA632 Learning and Teaching in Healthcare Settings
This unit will provide students with the opportunity to apply theories of teaching and learning in simulated as well as health care settings. Knowledge and skills will be further developed through examining practical issues related to assessing learners as well…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 2 |
View all details for CNA699 Applied Learning and Teaching for Health Professionals
This unit provides students with an understanding of research literature in health sciences. Scientific literature and related pharmaceutical literature including trade publications will be appraised. The principles and skills in evaluation and interpretation of the literature will be discussed and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for CSA727 Critical Evaluation of Research Literature
This unit focuses on role of accounting for managers. Students will learn to use financial and management accounting techniques to enable and enhance their decision making. Financial statement analysis will help students make decisions about an organisation’s financial position, performance…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 |
Organisational Behaviour (OB) is the study of human behaviour at the individual, group and organisational level. The primary purpose of this unit is to improve the management of organisations through the development of knowledge of human behaviour. To do this,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Launceston | Semester 2 |
The effective management of human resources is becoming an increasingly vital concern in organisations, whether they are professional practices employing only a few staff, multinational corporations, public sector or not-for-profit organisations. The impact of globalisation, increased competition for talented employees,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Launceston | Semester 2 |
View all details for BMA583 Managing People and the Employment Relationship
Strategic management today is a complex process requiring advanced skills. International expansion, network advantage, and resource optimisation pervade every aspect of this critical management skill. Successful managers need up-to-date guidance in the creation and implementation of effective strategy. This unit…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Launceston | Semester 2 |
This unit builds on basic environmental risk factors and public health data and considers the development of environmental regulation as a public health control: It provides participants with an introduction to the framework of environmental and health regulation within Australia.…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 1 |
View all details for CXA603 Environmental Health Regulation and Compliance
Food safety management, particularly for microbial hazards, is undergoing revolutionary change internationally. Essentially, a more holistic approach is being advocated that relies on analysis and synthesis of knowledge and data from several scientific disciplines. The approach is termed 'risk analysis’.This…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
This unit applies policy analysis and public administration theory to the delivery of health, housing and other social services in Australia - with particular reference to practice in Tasmania. It examines the current delivery system; current and future challenges; methods…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This core unit will increase and/or refresh students' knowledge and applied communication skills relevant to human services practice in the workplace, using strengths-based, collaborative and reflective approaches. The unit is organised and delivered in modules with specific application to practice…
Credit Points: 25
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for HGW415 Professional Communication in Human Services
This foundational unit introduces students to contemporary human services and its practices and examines topical issues in this context. A key aim of the unit is to increase students' understanding of how 'the bigger picture' impacts on organisations, service delivery…
Credit Points: 25
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for HGW416 Human Services: Context and Practice
This unit will enable you to be better prepared to care for people in the last year of their lives. You will develop skills in recognising; responding, renegotiating and reinforcing appropriate care and assessing the 'domains of distress' experienced by…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 2 |
View all details for CNA409 The Last Year of Life: Renegotiating and Reinforcing Appropriate Care
Entry requirements
Entry Requirements
Currently enrolled in, or holding, an undergraduate degree relevant to practice in health and human services from any specialty.
Admission Prerequisites
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Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
Domestic students enrolled in a full fee paying place are charged the Student Services and Amenities Fee but this fee is incorporated in the fees you pay for each unit you enrol in. Full fee paying domestic students do not have to make any additional SSAF payments.
Detailed tuition fee information for domestic students is available at the Domestic Student Fees website, including additional information in relation to a compulsory Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF).
International students
2021 Total Course Fee (international students): $32,950 AUD*.
Course cost based on a rate of $32,950 AUD per standard, full-time year of study (100 credit points).
* Please note that this is an indicative fee only.
International students
International students are charged the Student Services and Amenities Fee but this fee is incorporated in the annual rate. International students do not have to make any additional SSAF payments.
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
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