Graduate certificates and postgraduate diploma courses
Graduate Certificate in Health Promoting Palliative Care – Melbourne (City) (HCHPPC)
Postgraduate Diploma in Health Promoting Palliative Care – Melbourne (City) (HPHPP)
Coordinator: Dr Bruce Rumbold
Tel: Palliative Care Unit, (03) 9285 5259 or 9479 1750
Email: b.rumbold@latrobe.edu.au or phe.postgrad@latrobe.edu.au
Duration: Graduate Certificate: 1-2 years part-time
Postgraduate Diploma: 2-5 years part-time
These graduate certificate and postgraduate diploma courses introduce the theory of health promotion practice and apply it to palliative care. Students will have the opportunity to examine connections and make links between policy, organisation and practice in health promotion and in palliative care, and to develop skills for interventions at each of these levels. The overall objective of the course is to develop leaders with ideas for innovative practices in health promoting palliative care, including community capacity building approaches.
It is assumed that most students will have a background in one of the health professions. Consequently, the emphasis is on developing new skills that assist students to develop the health promotion aspects of their profession and apply these in the field of palliative care.
Both courses share subjects with the Postgraduate Diploma of Health Promotion.
Admission requirements
Prospective students for the graduate certificate and postgraduate diploma are usually required to hold a degree or equivalent. Applicants with relevant experience may be permitted entry into the graduate certificate or single subjects.
Course structure – graduate certificate
The course is offered flexibly, primarily by distance education, on a part-time basis over one to two years. The subjects offered are PHE4AHP, PHE4IHP, PHE4DDG, PHE4PHD and PHE2SPC. Students will be required to complete four of the listed subjects to complete the Graduate Certificate in Health Promoting Palliative Care.
Course structure – postgraduate diploma
The course is offered by distance education on a part-time basis over two to five years or on a full-time basis over one year.
First year (if part-time)
| Teaching period | Subject code | Subject title | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| TE-SEM-1/2 | PHE4IHP | Introduction to Health Promotion | 15 |
| TE-SEM-1/2 | PHE4PHP | Public Health Promotion | 15 |
| TE-SEM-1 | PHE4HDD | Health Data for Decision Making | 15 |
| TE-SEM-2 | PHE4HDE | Health Data for Decision Making – Skills Enhancement | 15 |
| TE-SEM-1/2 | PHE4PHG | Health Promotion Field Practice | 15 |
Second year (if part-time)
| Teaching period | Subject code | Subject title | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| TE-SEM-1 | PHE4AHP | Advanced Health Promoting Palliative Care | 15 |
| TE-SEM-1 | PHE4AHS | The Australian Health Care System | 15 |
| TE-SEM-2 | PHE4DDG | Public Health Approaches to Death, Dying and Grief | 15 |
| TE-SEM-2 | PHE4HPP | Health Promotion Project | 15 |
| or | |||
| TE-SEM-1/2 | PHEHFP | Health Promotion Field Practice | 15 |
Key: Any other postgraduate elective offered in the School of Public Health.
Students who enrol in the Graduate Certificate in Health Promotion may apply to progress to the Postgraduate Diploma in Health Promotion or the Postgraduate Diploma in Health Promoting Palliative Care. The graduate certificate will be subsumed upon completion of the postgraduate diploma.