Designed for working professionals
Online, flexible delivery with Commonwealth Supported Places, designed for busy healthcare professionals.
Co-designed industry specialisations
Choose a specialisation to develop advanced skills and progress your career.
Personalised capstone projects
Customise learning at the Master's level to select a research pathway of your choice.
Study options
Develop your leadership capacity
Our Advanced Practice courses will build your leadership and critical thinking skills, expand your knowledge, and support you to achieve your career ambitions and personal goals, no matter your discipline.
Our Advanced Practice courses have been co-designed with the health industry to specifically meet these needs. They feature a strong interdisciplinary approach that will provide you with knowledge and skills to expand your contribution to healthcare and meet your professional development requirements with flexible online study.
The Advanced Practice courses provide you with a strong foundation in leadership skills and critical thinking, which you will combine with electives and your choice from our range of contemporary specialisations, to broaden your health system knowledge relevant to your career aspirations.
The master’s degree component completes your learning journey, refining your research skills as you design and conduct a quality improvement project relevant to your workplace and/or career pathway.
As a graduate you’ll develop knowledge and skills to lead the positive change our system needs.
Specialisations available
Broaden your knowledge in specialised aspects of the healthcare system that align with your current or desired career pathway. As an emerging or established health leader, you might choose to specialise in Governance, Strategic Communication or Organisational Performance to enhance your capacity within your current role. Or you could develop your skills in Workplace Psychology to better understand and lead your people. The choice is open to you.
You can also experience first-hand what our expert lecturers can offer you with our free, online masterclass series.
Advanced practice specialisations are for health professionals across all disciplines who want to develop their leadership, management, and subject-matter expertise. If you’re a registered nurse looking for one of our clinical specialisations, you can find those at advanced nursing.
You will learn to design, implement, and evaluate interventions to improve quality and safety using an evidence-based quality improvement methodology.
The specialisation will help you to develop the professional competencies required for effective surveillance of and response to public health incidents in Australia, and globally.
You will learn about evidence-based approaches for prevention and mitigation. You will develop management plans and pathways of care in primary, secondary and community health care systems.
You will develop advanced knowledge and applied skills for advanced airway and ventilation and haemodynamic support in patients with acute or complex medical or trauma emergencies, and for critical care retrieval. Your clinical reasoning and decision-making skills will be further developed.
Learn from the global leaders in dementia education to help lead positive change
The rising prevalence of dementia is creating new challenges and a pressing need for change in the way our systems and practices support people to live well with dementia. This specialisation is aimed at health professionals building their expertise in aged care and dementia.
You will develop a global perspective on the impact dementia has on individuals and societies, as well as become equipped with the expertise to lead transformation based on the latest evidence. Course content is delivered by staff from our Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, global leaders in dementia research and education.
Make digital technologies work effectively for patients and providers
This specialisation develops skills and knowledge for a person-centred approach to digital transformations and improvements in the health system. It will prepare you to examine health information systems in relation to their capacity and efficiency to collect, store, retrieve, analyse, and utilise healthcare information for a variety of purposes with a goal of realising high quality, safe and efficient care.
You will learn to critically analyse challenges and generate solutions associated with the introduction and use of digital health systems and technologies.
Lead the provision of safe, high-quality contemporary care
Gain a comprehensive introduction to contemporary healthcare quality and safety with a focus on person-centred care. In this specialisation you will develop a broad understanding of governance, clinical governance and risk management within health and human services, focussing on recent developments and changes.
Designed for clinicians, clinical managers and those in other management roles to develop the knowledge and skills that are vital to the provision of safe, high-quality contemporary care, you will explore healthcare quality and safety, learn about the foundations of patient safety and quality improvement design, explore the complex relationships between a range of systems and structures, and much more.
Lead the change you want to see in the healthcare sector.
This specialisation allows you to improve existing health services and processes, with a central goal of improving patient care. Ideal for future change makers who are practising health professionals in public, private, and not-for-profit organisations, as well as healthcare administrators, you’ll develop the skills to drive healthcare improvement through evidence-based solutions, and help your workplace become more efficient, and person-centred.
Build the skills that next generation healthcare leadership requires
The Health Service Management specialisation will develop your high level management capabilities to navigate the complex policy, legal, ethical, financial and strategic environments that characterise contemporary health services. You will build a strong foundation in economic thinking, developing the critical skills to appraise economic evaluations and understand how evidence, advocacy and economic context shape public policy decisions.
Alongside this, you will examine the intersecting domains of law, ethics, strategy and financial management. On completion you be able to apply strategic and financial management principles to manage service delivery that is responsive, sustainable and grounded in best practice.
Become a capable and responsive educator and supervisor
This specialisation is designed for health professionals working in a range of health and human service settings who want to develop skills in learner supervision, designing education for their peers, and developing educational interventions. A combination of core and choice units will see you exploring key supervision theories and practices, reflecting on your own experiences, and customising your learning to explore aspects of the healthcare system relevant to your workplace or career aspirations.
You will learn to identify and analyse medication safety issues and develop the skills to design and implement solutions to reduce medication related harm in your health care setting.
Master the dynamics of the healthcare environment to lead system change
Every health organisation needs qualified and passionate leaders. Core and choice units provide organisational performance management skills to emerging, middle and senior managers, clinicians, and health professionals working within health and human services. This supports you to both enhance your natural leadership qualities, and build new skills that meet the needs of the future, covering topics including health data management, managing complex adaptive organisations, decision-making, monitoring performance and health finance and economics.
You will learn about resilience, crisis management, corporate security, and business continuity. This specialisation prepares managers and leaders to respond appropriately to disruption in workforces, enterprises, economies, and individuals.
Become a supply chain manager
Our supply chains must be managed by highly trained individuals and teams who can lead the development, implementation and control of sound contemporary management practices. This is particularly evident in the increasingly connected healthcare sector.
Designed for managers and senior administrators, we'll provide you with knowledge, skills, and expertise to manage this key organisational element that is tightly interconnected with human society: physically, socially and economically
Become a more effective people leader
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. This specialisation introduces the concept of positive psychology into leadership practices and principles.
You will critically explore the theories, constructs and models within positive psychology, and how they can be integrated into the workplace environment, so you can become a more effective leader in health and human services.
Course options
We offer a range of course options designed to meet your professional and personal goals in the healthcare sector.
Graduate Certificate in | Graduate Diploma of | Master of |
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Total 4 units (50 credit points)
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Total 8 units (100 credit points)
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Total 11 units (150 credit points)
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1 year, up to a maximum of 3 years
OnlineAdvanced Practice masterclass series
Experience first-hand what our expert lecturers can offer you with our free, online masterclass series.
Webinar topics cover the breadth of our Advanced Practice specialisations and choice units, as well as the core topics of leadership, and critical thinking. There are options to explore a new topic, or dive into something you are already familiar with and expand your knowledge.
Past masterclass recordings
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming healthcare across clinical care, operational management, administration, and research. From diagnostic imaging and predictive risk models to AI-generated documentation and workflow automation, healthcare professionals are increasingly working alongside intelligent systems.
This webinar explores the fundamentals of AI, practical examples of how AI is already being applied internationally, and the emerging governance, ethical, and workforce implications for healthcare organisations.
The session provides a practical, real-world introduction to how AI is reshaping healthcare - and why future healthcare leaders and clinicians must understand both its capability and its risks.
Advanced Practice: Understanding and living with our cognitive biases
What is cognitive bias, how does it impact judgement within a healthcare setting and what can be done to mitigate its impact. Hear from Dr Richard Cory, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and how our Advanced Practice course offerings can benefit your career goals in 2026.
Deliver a teaching session with impact: some top tips.
Lights... Camera... Action Methods Teaching
Implementation of action teaching method to improve learner experience presented by Annie Fraser & Madeleine Hopkins, Nurse Educators, Mental Health District Education Unit, SESLHD
Innovations in Healthcare Clinical Teaching
This presentation explores cutting-edge strategies implemented in the Learning and Teaching in Healthcare Settings and Simulation in Teaching units within the Advanced Practice courses.
Presented by Vicki Ibbotson, University of Tasmania lecturer
The latest on advances in drugs, diagnosis and risk management for dementia
Hear about the latest on advances in drugs, diagnosis and risk management for dementia from Professor James Vickers, Director, Wicking Institute for Dementia Research and Education.
Beyond compliance
Building a culture of clinical governance in healthcare.
Duration: 1 hour
Learn from Dr Sheree Lloyd about building a culture of clinical governance.
Implementation Science in Healthcare
Bringing research into everyday practice: implementation science for health professionals
Duration: 60 minutes
Join us as we explore key concepts and frameworks in implementation science. Learn how to integrate research into routine practice by aligning strategies with existing practices and engaging stakeholders. Discover methods to identify and apply effective implementation strategies, and enhance your evidence-based decision-making skills through critical appraisal and continuous evaluation.
Enhance your understanding and practical skills to foster a culture of evidence-based practice in your organisation.
Health Economics
How much is enough? The economics of health and healthcare in the age of ecological crisis.
Duration: 60 minutes
Resources are always limited in healthcare – whether it’s doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, critical equipment, or simply money, there’s usually not enough to do everything we would like to do. More recently, we are starting to understand how environmental factors – from climate change to microplastics to biodiversity loss – will increasingly impact human health, healthcare and the wider economy in the years to come.
This talk will give a preview of our new “Sustainable Health Economics” subject. What will the accelerating ecological crisis mean for health, the economy and the availability of resources for healthcare? How can health economics help healthcare systems to navigate this world of planetary boundaries – and where do we need a new economics to get us out of this crisis? What would a truly sustainable economy mean for healthcare, and how can you prepare professionally for the future we really face?
Community and Urgent Care: Critical Care and Retrieval
Racetrack to Recovery
Duration: 60 minutes
This masterclass is a showcase all of the principles in critical care in the management of a sidecar motorcyclist that suffered life-threatening injuries and who received critical care management in the prehospital setting, went through to ICU, ECMO transfer to Melbourne, back to Hobart ICU, and discharged home.
It will demonstrate all of the aspects of critical care that we are trying to deliver in the course and a practical example of the importance of high performing clinicians, critical care teams and integration into the wider critical care system.
Systems Thinking
Your introduction to systems thinking principles in healthcare
Duration: 60 minutes
Healthcare systems are complex, and in such systems, it could be challenging to understand how quality and safety is constructed and maintained. It is important to use a systems thinking approach in improving the delivery of healthcare, as it increases the ability to understand complex work processes, to predict system behaviour and to design sustainable solutions for healthcare delivery issues. Systems thinking involves exploring the characteristics of components within a system and how they interconnect using a holistic lens.
Strategic Communications
What does it mean to be a strategic communicator?
Duration: 60 minutes
In our increasingly dynamic media environment every industry professional needs the skills, knowledge, and tools to communicate complex ideas to diverse audiences. This webinar is for anyone who wants to inspire and promote change in their field through effective and ethical communication and storytelling
Outbreak Management webinar
Duration: 40 minutes
Ever wondered how public health units find out about outbreaks and then figure out what caused them? Join us for this webinar where we introduce the surveillance of infectious diseases and the ten steps of outbreak management.
Outbreak Management short course
Learn the skills and knowledge required to respond to communicable disease outbreaks and other public health incidents
- Host: Michelle McPherson
- Duration: 4 day short course
- Date/time: See short course page for details
This short course will provide you with the skills and knowledge required to respond to communicable disease outbreaks and other public health incidents, including the ten steps of outbreak management; assessment of public heath surveillance data and intelligence; using risk assessment frameworks; applying appropriate epidemiological, environmental and laboratory evidence; risk communication principles; and appropriate interventions.
Patient Safety – Medication Without Harm
Evaluation of pharmacist partnered medication charting in the emergency department
Duration: 60 minutes
This project straddles two study areas within the Advanced Practice suite of courses – healthcare redesign and medication safety.
Acute care provided in the hospital’s emergency department (ED) is a key component of the healthcare system that serves as an essential bridge between outpatient and inpatient care. However, due to the emergency-driven nature of presenting problems and the urgency of care required, along with increasing busyness, the ED is generally more prone to unintended medication regimen changes and similar medication errors than other departments. Ensuring the quality use of medicines (QUM), defined as “choosing suitable medicines and using them safely and effectively”, remains a challenge in the ED and hence requires special attention.
An area that has received considerable attention is obtaining a patient’s complete and accurate medication history prior to presentation, known as ‘best possible medication history’ (BPMH), as early as feasible on hospital attendance. This may form the basis for initial and subsequent care plans, if a patient is admitted, following presentation to ED. Another important consideration is having a clinical conversation between a pharmacist and a medical officer to optimise treatment plans and intercept any medication management issues early in the ED.
In line with these cornerstones, the Tasmanian Department of Health approved a 12-month partnered pharmacist medication charting (PPMC) project in the Royal Hobart Hospital ED. A multidisciplinary working group developed the PPMC care model. This talk will present an evaluation of the program, utilising a mixed-methods pragmatic design, by an independent University of Tasmania research team.
- Presenter: Professor Kerry Reid-Searl
- Date: Thursday, 4 September 2025
- Time: 3.30pm
- Duration: 1 hour
Health partner scholarships
To help you advance your career, generous scholarships are available for the graduate certificate and graduate diploma degrees to employees of our valued industry partners. On completion of the graduate diploma eligible students may progress to a Masters degree. Search for your employer, speak to your workplace or contact us on 13 8827 to find out more.
Search for your employer, speak to your workplace, or contact us on 13 8827 to find out more.
Career opportunities
Now, more than ever, the healthcare industry needs leaders equipped for an ever-evolving sector. Health care and Social Assistance is the largest employing industry in Australia, with job opportunities estimated to grow up to 15% over the next three years.*
24.3%
Nurse Managers
Projected growth by 2033*
22.8%
Human Resource Managers
Projected growth by 2033*
20.1%
Practice Managers
Projected growth by 2033*
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Partner scholarships available
We offer generous scholarships for employees of our many partner organisations.
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Take the next step
Applying to study with us is free using our simple online form.
Find out how to apply to get started.
Whether you're contemplating the next step in your career, seeking a change, or looking to consolidate your experience with a qualification, a postgraduate degree will give you a competitive edge.
If you would like help applying, please enquire with our friendly team. You can even set up an appointment to be guided through the process.
Take the next step
Applying to study with us is free using our simple online form.
Find out how to apply to get started.
Whether you're contemplating the next step in your career, seeking a change, or looking to consolidate your experience with a qualification, a postgraduate degree will give you a competitive edge.
If you would like help applying, please enquire with our friendly team. You can even set up an appointment to be guided through the process.