Overview 2024
This course may not be available to international students. Please see the list of distance courses (i.e. online and taken outside Australia) that are offered to international students
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Delivered over 2 years this fully flexible online program is designed to fit around the busy lives of professionals working in the healthcare industry:
- build your practical skills and enhance your research capabilities
- your expertise will be developed in planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based health service improvements
- develop your advanced problem solving and analytical skills to help 'diagnose' service delivery issues and inefficiencies
- implement solutions that can lead to lasting change, improved service delivery and sustainable health care
This course will also provide you with an opportunity to undertake research, building on topics that are of an interest to you and which you wish to explore in greater depth.
This is the perfect course for anyone motivated by positive change and improvement in healthcare whether you are a practising health professional in a public, private or not-for-profit organisation, or a healthcare service administrator. Your experience will be built upon to equip you with the essential skills, tools and knowledge to lead improvement initiatives. This implies better outcomes for consumers of healthcare.
So enhance your career opportunities and begin the journey into healthcare improvement today.
Learning Outcomes
Career outcomes
Enhancement of their role as healthcare professionals with the ability to plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based healthcare/services improvements into practice. By consolidating and advancing communication skills, students will be able to build more effective relationships with patients and other health professionals.
Course structure
Year 1
Students completing this unit will acquire advanced problem-solving and analytical skills for the ‘diagnosis’ of service delivery blockages, quality and safety issues, and system inefficiencies. The unit draws upon a solid theoretical and empirical basis and introduces students to a…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Online | Spring school (extended) |
View all details for CAM509 Healthcare Redesign Diagnostics and Analysis
Students completing this unit will acquire advanced problem-solving skills, encompassing the design of targeted healthcare redesign solutions to meet identified quality and safety issues, gaps, and system inefficiencies found within health services. The unit draws upon a solid theoretical and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Online | Spring school (extended) |
View all details for CAM510 Healthcare Redesign Solutions and Implementation
This unit provides a framework for understanding the links between knowledge and practice. It is about considering the when, why and, importantly, how of translational research in practice. It is also designed to encourage the development of the capacity of…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Online | Spring school (extended) |
View all details for CAM538 Translational Research and Health Service Innovation
This unit introduces students to the healthcare redesign methodology and its process. Students will learn about effective redesign methods, theories, and frameworks in a global context to prepare them to initiate healthcare redesign in practice. Students will learn about evaluating…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM554 Introduction to Healthcare Redesign
Year 2
This research practicum unit is a capstone unit in the public health, leadership and clinical redesign Professional Honours courses that requires students to implement a research project under the supervision of an academic supervisor. Research projects may include systematic reviews,…
Credit Points: 25
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Online | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM404 Research and Evaluation Practicum
Evaluation is a core function of public health and health system leadership. It provides evidence to improve the design, delivery, reach and impact of health interventions in the many different contexts of the health system. This unit develops student competencies…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 |
This unit will equip students with an understanding of the research methods used in health disciplines in order to interpret published research, and design research of their own. The Unit content includes the theoretical underpinning of both qualitative and quantitative…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Online | Semester 2 |
Entry requirements
For Domestic students
This course is not accepting applications.
University of Tasmania General admission standards apply for domestic students. The College of Health and Medicine may accept as a candidate into the course either of the following:
- A person who has completed an undergraduate degree of an Australian higher education institution or the equivalent standard in any other institution.
- Equivalent experience and/or qualifications as deemed appropriate by the Dean, as delegated to the Course Coordinator.
For International students
This course is not available to international students. Please enquire online for advice on alternative course options.
Credit transfer
Credit for appropriate studies completed from other university courses may be granted. Refer Rule 6: Part 3 Credit and Recognition of Prior Learning.
Articulation
The Bachelor of Healthcare with Professional Honours (Clinical Redesign) articulates directly with the Master of Quality and Safety, Master of Clinical Nursing
Detailed Admissions Information
Detailed admissions information and advice for all undergraduate courses, including comprehensive, course-level student profiles, is available from UTAS Admissions.
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
This is a full-fee course, which means you’ll need to pay the full amount for your studies. Commonwealth Supported Places are not available in this course. However, there are still support options available for eligible students to help you manage the cost of studying this course.
You may be able to fund all or part of your tuition fees by accessing a FEE-HELP loan from the Australian Government. FEE-HELP is a loan scheme that assists domestic full-fee students to pay for University, which is repaid through the Australian Tax System once you earn above a repayment threshold. This means you’ll only have to start repaying the loan once you start earning above a specific amount
Our scholarships and prizes program also offers more than 400 scholarships across all areas of study. You can even apply for multiple scholarships in one easy application.
Further informationDetailed fee information for domestic students is available at Scholarships, fees and costs, including additional information in relation to the compulsory Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF).
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
How can we help?
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- International
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