Overview 2021
This course may not be available to international students. Please see the International Online Course Guide (PDF 809KB) for courses that are offered to international students
Welcome to the Healthcare in Remote and Extreme Environments Program
We are a diverse group of health professionals with extensive experience in working in remote and extreme environments – from aeromedical retrieval and helicopter rescue to endurance race medical support and solo medical practice in Antarctica, and from running charitable clinics in the Himalayas and providing medical support at the Olympics to coaching extreme sport athletes and advising the Australian Space Agency. We come together to provide educational programs in this exciting and rapidly evolving area of healthcare and to share our passion and experiences with you.
Below you will find information on our Graduate Certificate, Diploma and Masters program. These higher award programs are open only to doctors, nurse and paramedics. We do, however, offer an expanding range of educational options that are applicable to a much wider range of people. Visit our ever expanding offering of MOOCs and online courses, and browse the range of short courses .
Please feel free to contact the program director, Dr Edi Albert with any informal inquiries or questions via email: edi.albert@utas.edu.au
Course structure
Core Units
This unit provides an introduction to the Healthcare in Remote and Extreme Environments. It starts by considering the characteristics of different types of remote populations and remote medical practice, the understanding of which is vital to providing appropriate health care.…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM503 Operational Aspects of Healthcare in Remote and Extreme Environments
This unit is concerned with the practice of health-care in extreme environments. It starts with generic considerations before moving on to examine the following extreme environments in detail: cold, high altitude, desert, maritime, underwater, aviation, and space. The challenges of…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 1 |
View all details for CAM619 Medicine in Extreme Environments
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
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 |
Elective Units
This unit draws together theoretical and clinical concepts related to legal and ethical responsibilities, quality and safety measures, advanced diagnostic reasoning and clinical decision-making based on knowledge and evidence, in the care of individuals in a variety of settings. This…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for CAA500 Advanced Clinical Reasoning in Out of Hospital Practice
Remote and Extreme Environment Health-care practice requires health care providers to have an extended skill set and perform various tasks that are conventionally performed by other health care professionals. This unit provides a framework for learning and assessment in the…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM630 Practical Skills for Remote Health Care
This unit is an intensive, residential course providing practical skills development to support on-line units offered in the Healthcare in Remote and Extreme Environment courses. The unit commences with a focus on basic knowledge and skills in the following domains:…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
Aero-space medicine is a growing sub-specialty of medicine. This unit is developed in collaboration with the Australasian Society of Aero-space Medicine (ASAM) and focuses on the environmental challenges and technological adaptions for survival in space. It explores the physiological and…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
Extreme sports have increased in popularity over the last few years and are practised by many people, often in remote and extreme environment settings. This unit takes a multi-disciplinary approach and looks at training,prevention, engineering and safety equipment, management of…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
Medical Care on Offshore and Inland Waters provides a both a theoretical and practical introduction to the planning and delivery of medical care in various aquatic settings: from scientific expeditions and Antarctic cruises on large ships through to white-water rafting…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Spring school |
View all details for CAM635 Medical Care on Offshore and Inland Waters
Extreme environments are so named due to the unique challenges they pose to human performance. In this online unit you will learn about the factors that characterise an environment as extreme, and how living and/or working in an extreme environment…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 1 |
View all details for KHB701 Human Behaviour in Extreme Environments
Masters Pathway
Select the Professional Placement Pathway or Research Pathway
Professional Placement Pathway
This unit develops professional competencies through a program of work integrated learning in professional practice.Competency is assessed by a portfolio of varied competency assessment tasks and VIVA relevant to the area of practice.…
Credit Points: 25
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit develops professional competencies through a program of work integrated learning in professional practice.Competency is assessed by a portfolio of varied competency assessment tasks and VIVA relevant to the area of practice.…
Credit Points: 25
This unit is currently unavailable.
Research Pathway
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
This unit is currently unavailable.
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
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Rozelle - Sydney | Semester 2 |
Elective Units
Select one elective unit from the list below:
This unit draws together theoretical and clinical concepts related to legal and ethical responsibilities, quality and safety measures, advanced diagnostic reasoning and clinical decision-making based on knowledge and evidence, in the care of individuals in a variety of settings. This…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for CAA500 Advanced Clinical Reasoning in Out of Hospital Practice
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
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
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, health care delivery and human services. The unit content covers…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
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
This unit is currently unavailable.
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
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM530 Systems Thinking in Public Health
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
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for CAM539 Leadership in Health and Human Services
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 developsstudent competencies in…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 1 |
This unit aims to provide a broad understanding of governance, clinical governance and risk management within the field of health and human services covering the relatively recent development and changes that have occurred in these areas. The Unit will also…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
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
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit builds upon the courses CAM528 Introduction to Epidemiology and CAM625 Introduction to Biostatistics. You will consolidate and expand your knowledge on epidemiology and will learn biostatistics in an applied manner. The goal is to introduce you to the…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for CAM627 Extended Epidemiology and Biostatistics
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 explores the principles, theories and practice of this important field of epidemiology,…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Remote and Extreme Environment Health-care practice requires health care providers to have an extended skill set and perform various tasks that are conventionally performed by other health care professionals. This unit provides a framework for learning and assessment in the…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM630 Practical Skills for Remote Health Care
This unit is an intensive, residential course providing practical skills development to support on-line units offered in the Healthcare in Remote and Extreme Environment courses. The unit commences with a focus on basic knowledge and skills in the following domains:…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 |
Aero-space medicine is a growing sub-specialty of medicine. This unit is developed in collaboration with the Australasian Society of Aero-space Medicine (ASAM) and focuses on the environmental challenges and technological adaptions for survival in space. It explores the physiological and…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 |
This unit provides students with the conceptual, analytical and strategy planning basis for effective public health intervention management and capacity building practice. Intervention management (assessing, building capacity, planning, implementing and evaluating public health interventions) is a core function of public…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM633 Public Health Intervention Practice
Extreme sports have increased in popularity over the last few years and are practised by many people, often in remote and extreme environment settings. This unit takes a multi-disciplinary approach and looks at training,prevention, engineering and safety equipment, management of…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Semester 2 |
Medical Care on Offshore and Inland Waters provides a both a theoretical and practical introduction to the planning and delivery of medical care in various aquatic settings: from scientific expeditions and Antarctic cruises on large ships through to white-water rafting…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hobart | Spring school |
View all details for CAM635 Medical Care on Offshore and Inland Waters
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 as well as diffusion of innovation.Strategies for successful implementation of…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for CAM722 Leading and Managing Change in Health and Human Services
Extreme environments are so named due to the unique challenges they pose to human performance. In this online unit you will learn about the factors that characterise an environment as extreme, and how living and/or working in an extreme environment…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Semester 1 |
View all details for KHB701 Human Behaviour in Extreme Environments
Entry requirements
Entry Requirements
To be eligible for an offer, applicants must have:
- Completed a nationally accredited health professional degree in Medicine, Nursing or Paramedicine from an Australian university, AQF7 level or the equivalent standard in any other institution. Applicants with health‐related degrees other than Medicine, Nursing or Paramedicine, will be considered on a case by case basis by the Course Coordinator.
- Applicants must have completed 2 years equivalent full time post graduate work in their profession at the time of course commencement.
- Candidates must demonstrate time spent in a remote / austere / extreme environment setting in a work, voluntary or recreational capacity.
- Candidates with less than 2 years healthcare post graduate work experience but with significant other experience in remote / austere / extreme environment settings will be considered on a case by case basis by the course coordinator.
OR
Have completed the Graduate Diploma of Healthcare in Extreme Environments.
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).
Domestic students enrolled in certain postgraduate coursework programs may not be eligible for student payments through Youth Allowance and Austudy. Visit the Department of Social Services website to find out more about eligibility for Centrelink support and the list of eligible courses
International students
International students should refer to the International Students course fees page to get an indicative course cost.
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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