Graduate Certificate of Health Clinical Education (GCHE) - GradCertHealthClinEd
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| Start: | Semester 1 (February) Semester 2 (July) |
| Fees: | Commonwealth supported place |
| Standard duration: | 1 year part-time |
Contact us
| Future Australian and New Zealand students | Current students |
Freecall (within Australia): 1800 269 500 Phone (from outside Australia): +61 7 4631 5315 Email: study@usq.edu.au |
Freecall (within Australia): 1800 007 252 Phone (from outside Australia): +61 7 4631 2285 Email usq.support@usq.edu.au |
Program aims
This program focuses on developing your knowledge and skills to enable you to facilitate learning in the clinical setting.
Program objectives
On completion of this program graduates should be able to:
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Apply specialised knowledge, skills and technical competencies within specific health contexts
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Effectively communicate using high-level written and oral language skills with people of diverse ages, backgrounds and needs
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Collaborate with a range of healthcare professionals to achieve the best possible healthcare outcomes for individuals and communities
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Reflect on practice to facilitate awareness and knowledge of one鈥檚 own cognition and abilities
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Critically analyse, synthesise and evaluate a range of data and evidence to provide solutions to complex nursing problems.
Australian Qualifications Framework
The Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) is a single national, comprehensive system of qualifications offered by higher education institutions (including universities), vocational education and training institutions and secondary schools. Each AQF qualification has a set of descriptors which define the type and complexity of knowledge, skills and application of knowledge and skills that a graduate who has been awarded that qualification has attained, and the typical volume of learning associated with that qualification type.
This program is at AQF Qualification Level 08. Graduates at this level will have advanced knowledge and skills for professional or highly skilled work and/or further learning.
The full set of levels criteria and qualification type descriptors can be found by visiting .
Admission requirements
To be eligible for admission, applicants must satisfy the following requirements:
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Completion of an Australian university three-year bachelor degree in a health related field, or equivalent.
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English Language Proficiency requirements for Category 3.
All students are required to satisfy the applicable .
If students do not meet the English language requirements they may apply to study a 精东传媒app-approved . On successful completion of the English language program, students may be admitted to an award program.
Program fees
Commonwealth supported place
A Commonwealth supported place is where the Australian Government makes a contribution towards the cost of a students' higher education and students pay a , which varies depending on the courses undertaken. Students are able to calculate the fees for a particular course via the .
Commonwealth Supported students may be eligible to defer their fees through a Government loan called .
IT requirements
Access to an up-to-date computer is necessary. On-campus students can access appropriately equipped laboratories, but should consider acquisition of their own computer. Students should be able to access a computer with the following . All students should have access to email and the Internet via a computer running the latest versions of Internet web browsers such as Internet Explorer or Firefox. The 精东传媒app has a wireless network for on-campus students' computers. In order to take advantage of this facility and further enhance their on-campus learning environment, students should consider purchasing a notebook/laptop computer with wireless connectivity. Specialist software is required for some courses.
Credit
Credit will only be considered where students have completed, within the last five years, a course which has at least 80% equivalency with a course in the GCHE (maximum two courses).
Recommended enrolment pattern
Recommended enrolment pattern - part-time only
Students are able to enrol in any offered mode of a course (on-campus, external or online), regardless of the program mode of study they enrolled in.
| Course | Year of program and semester in which course is normally studied | Enrolment requirements | |||||
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| On-campus (ONC) | External (EXT) | Online (ONL) | |||||
| Year | Sem | Year | Sem | Year | Sem | ||
| 1 | 1,2 | Pre-requisite: Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: BHEH or MNRS or MNSG or PDEV or GCHH or GDHH or MOHH or DOHH or GDNG or GCNM or GCHE or GCNG | |||||
| 1 | 1 | Pre-requisite: Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: BHEH or MNSG or GCNG or GDNG or PDEV or GCHH or GDHH or MOHH or GCHE and be employed as a practising health professional | |||||
| 1 | 2 | Pre-requisite: Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: BHEH or MNSG or GCNG or GDNG or PDEV or GCHH or MNRS or GDHH or MOHH or GCHE Co-requisite: | |||||
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And one of the following two courses: | |||||||
| 1 | 1,2 | Pre-requisite: Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GCNG or GDNG or MNSG or GCHH or GDHH or MOHH or GCHE | |||||
| 1 | 1,2 | Pre-requisite: Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: BHEH or MNRS or PDEV or MNSG or GCHH or GDHH or MOHH or GCCO or MCCO or GDCN or GDNG or GCNG or GCHE | |||||