M4009 Graduate Certificate of Health Professions Education
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Graduate Certificate of Health Professions Education (M4009) is a 24-credit-point, graduate certificate course from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, taught at Clayton. Map your units semester by semester with the MonMap planner.
- Credit points
- 24
- Campus
- Clayton
- Online
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Overview
The Graduate Certificate of Health Professions Education qualifies individuals to apply principles and theories that inform educational practice in a range of clinical and other relevant contexts to undertake professional and highly skilled work and as a pathway for further learning. This practice-based qualification is suitable for a broad range of health professionals who are, or will be, engaged in the teaching, assessment, evaluation, mentoring and supervision of health professionals in a range of clinical and other contexts.
Course structure
Core units12 credit points
List of short courses12 credit points
- Learning and teaching with simulation
- Quality supervision in health and human services
- Scenario design for simulation-based education
- Learning conversations: Feedback and debriefing practices in clinical simulation
- Assessment in health professions education
- Introduction to education research in the health professions and sciences
The handbook's description of this structure
This course consists of 24 credit points of Health Professions Education undertaken as a combination of units and short courses.
This study will provide you with professional teaching and advanced supervisory skills in both clinical and non-clinical environments. It will facilitate the application of principles and theories that inform educational practice and allow for specialism through the choice of elective studies.
List of Short Courses:
- Learning and teaching with simulation
- Quality supervision in health and human services course
- Scenario design for simulation-based education
- Learning conversations: Feedback and debriefing practices in clinical simulation
- Assessment in health professions education
- Introduction to education research in the health professions and sciences
Note:
- You will receive specified credit for assessed short courses that you completed successfully prior to your enrolment in this course.
- Not all short courses are available every semester.
- The above short courses are not eligible for FEE-HELP.
Course progression map
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The course comprises 24 points structured into three units.
Note: You will receive 12 points of specified credit for elective units for prior studies by means of assessed short courses.
All units are 6 points unless otherwise stated.
You must complete:
- HPE5100 Foundations of health professions education (12 points)
- Assessed short courses (total of 12 points)
* Assessed short courses must be chosen from the following list of short courses. Please note that not all short courses are offered every semester. Short courses are 6 points unless otherwise stated. The short courses are not eligible for FEE-HELP.
- MPD0015 Learning and teaching with simulation
- MPD0016 Quality supervision in health and human services course
- MPD0017 Scenario design for simulation-based education
- MPD0018 Learning conversations: Feedback and debriefing practices in clinical simulation
- MPD0020 Assessment in Health Professions Education
- MPD0022 Introduction to education research in the health professions and sciences (12cp)
Learning outcomes
These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework and Monash Graduate Attributes.
Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that you will be able to:
- 1
Articulate a personal philosophy of learner-centred education
- 2
Describe and apply learning theories that inform educational practice
- 3
Identify and apply principles of curriculum design, using innovative educational approaches to meet learning objectives
- 4
Review contemporary teaching methods for a range of clinical and other relevant contexts
- 5
Plan, design, implement, assess and evaluate an educational programme
- 6
Describe and practice feedback strategies to support learning
- 7
Identify the role of mentoring and supervision for safe clinical practice
- 8
Develop a strategy for further learning as a health professions educator.
Entry requirements
English language
Monash Level C, that is: IELTS (Academic): 7.0 overall (no band lower than 6.5); or Pearson Test of English (Academic): score of 65 overall with no band lower than 58; or TOEFL Internet-based test: score of 94 overall with minimum scores: Writing: 24, Listening: 20, Reading: 19 and Speaking: 20; or Equivalent approved English test
More information
Other information
The Graduate Certificate of Health Professions Education qualifies individuals to apply principles and theories that inform educational practice in a range of clinical and other relevant contexts to undertake professional and highly skilled work and as a pathway for further learning. This practice-based qualification is suitable for a broad range of health professionals who are, or will be, engaged in the teaching, assessment, evaluation, mentoring and supervision of health professionals in a range of clinical and other contexts.
Contacts
- Academic Coordinator
- Professor Simone Gibson
Common questions
Where can I study Graduate Certificate of Health Professions Education?
At Clayton.
How do I plan my Graduate Certificate of Health Professions Education units?
Open the course in the MonMap planner. It lays out your semesters, checks prerequisites as you drag units in, and tracks the credit points each requirement still needs.