Graduate Certificate in Health Promoting Palliative Care
Course code/s: Melbourne (HCHPPC)
Please note that a Master of Health Sciences with a major in Health Promoting Palliative Care is also available for students who may wish to expand this study program.
Course Coordinator: Dr Bruce Rumbold ph (03) 9285 5259 email: b.rumbold@latrobe.edu.au
Course Duration: Graduate Certificate: 1-2 years part-time
The graduate certificate course introduces 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.
Admission requirements
Prospective students for the graduate certificate are usually required to hold a degree or equivalent. Applicants with relevant experience may be permitted entry into the graduate certificate or single subjects. Domestic students who enrol in the Graduate Certificate may apply to progress to the Master of Health Sciences. The Graduate Certificate will be subsumed upon completion of the higher qualification. It is possible to exit from the Master of Health Sciences with a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Promoting Palliative Care or a Graduate Certificate in Health Promoting Palliative Care.
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 PHE5SPC, PHE5AHP, PHE5IHP, PHE5DDG and PHE5PHG. Students will be required to complete four of these subjects for the Graduate Certificate in Health Promoting Palliative Care.
Course structure – postgraduate diploma
From 2012 the Postgraduate Diploma in Health Promoting Palliative Care will not be offered for direct admission. Students are encouraged to look at the Master of Health Sciences program.