Graduate Certificate of Health and Medical Research
2025 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2025 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Graduate Certificate of Health and Medical Research |
| Deakin course code | H523 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Health |
| Campus | Offered at Waurn Ponds (Geelong) |
| Online | Yes |
| Duration | Semester 1: Full-time or part-time over one year Semester 2: For students with approved RPL only |
| Course Map - enrolment planning tool | These course maps are for new students commencing from Semester 1 2025. Course maps for commencement in previous years are available on the Course Maps webpage or please contact a Student Adviser in Student Central. |
| CRICOS course code | 110775D Waurn Ponds (Geelong) |
| Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) recognition | The award conferred upon completion is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework at Level 8 |
Course sub-headings
- Course overview
- Indicative student workload
- Professional recognition
- Career opportunities
- Participation requirements
- Pathways
- Course Learning Outcomes
- Course rules
- Course structure
- Work experience
- Research and research-related study
- Fees and charges
Course overview
Help improve the lives and communities we serve by driving evidence-based solutions that have a real-world impact across Australia and around the globe. Deakin’s Graduate Certificate of Health and Medical Research provides the opportunity to advance your career in clinical research; offering a unique and fast-tracked pathway to PhD study for graduates of undergraduate and postgraduate courses where the requirements for PhD entry have not been fulfilled.
Are you ready to participate in cutting-edge research and drive change in your field?
Under the guidance of some of the Australia’s leading researchers and benefiting from access to world-class facilities, you will graduate with skills highly sought after for academia, research institutes, hospitals, medical bodies, as well as government health and science agencies.
Additionally, the unique structure of this course allows the minimum requirements for PhD entry at Deakin University, which is a 2 credit point research thesis, to be met as well as providing experiential training around project planning, execution, presentation, and thesis writing.
Upon completing this course students will have utilised and improved on a range of skills such as critical thinking, complex problem solving, communication, and technical skills due to the composition of assessment tasks in research training, including ethics, and experiential research to demonstrate discipline specific knowledge and capabilities.
Indicative student workload
You should be able to commit 35 hours a week to your degree.
Professional recognition
Not applicable
Career opportunities
Not applicable
Participation requirements
This course requires you to undertake your own research. A year of specialised study will allow you to draw together the theory and practical skills gained in previous undergraduate studies and to develop an in-depth knowledge of your particular discipline through research and additional coursework.
Reasonable adjustments to participation and other course requirements will be made for students with a disability. More information available at Disability support services.
Pathways
The proposed Graduate Certificate of Health and Medical Research will provide research training and a research experience that will be assessed by a 2 credit point thesis. Successful completion of this course does not automatically guarantee pathway. Students who complete the research project for the Graduate Certificate of Health and Medical Research with a grade of 70% or higher will be eligible for entry for a PhD candidature at Deakin University.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities | Apply advanced discipline-specific knowledge and understanding of health and medical research methodologies to plan and execute a research project as well as disseminate research findings. |
| Communication | Effectively use written, visual, and verbal communication of health and medical research concepts and research findings to both specialist and non-specialist audiences. |
| Digital literacy | Utilise digital technologies to locate, collect, curate, and interpret literature and data to disseminate health and medical research concepts and relevant information. |
| Critical thinking | Critically evaluate health and medical research literature, methodologies, and research data in a creative and constructive manner to contribute to health and medical research. |
| Problem solving | Define a health or medical research question and design a methodology to address the research question, in the given timeframe, that is appropriate and ethical. Reflect upon the research project in the context of health or medical literature to contribute advancement of knowledge by disseminating research data and findings. |
| Self-management | Demonstrate self-management to source, curate, and interpret health and medical research literature and data with a high degree of autonomy. |
| Teamwork | N/A |
| Global citizenship | Engage in professional and ethical research practices. |
Course rules
To complete the Graduate Certificate of Health and Medical Research students must pass 4 credit points and meet the following course rules to be eligible to graduate:
- DAI001 Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin (0-credit-point compulsory unit) in their first study period
- 4 credit points of core units
Students are required to meet the University's academic progress and conduct requirements. See the enrolment codes and terminology to help make sense of the University’s vocabulary.
Course structure
Core units - Domestic and Part time students only
Semester 1
| DAI001 | Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin (0 credit points) |
| HMH711 | Research Interpretation and Integrity |
| HMH701 | Health and Medical Research Project Proposal |
Semester 2
| HMH702 | Health and Medical Research Project Thesis |
Core units - International students only
Semester 1
| DAI001 | Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin (0 credit points) |
| HMH711 | Research Interpretation and Integrity |
| HMH701 | Health and Medical Research Project Proposal |
| HMH702 | Health and Medical Research Project Thesis |
Work experience
Not applicable
Course duration
Course duration may be affected by delays in completing course requirements, such as failing of units or accessing or completing placements.
Further information
Student Central can help you with course planning, choosing the right units and explaining course rules and requirements.
- Contact Student Central
Research and research-related study
All units of the course involve research or research related study and are assessed.
Fees and charges
Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study, and their study discipline or your study load.
Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
For further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods visit our Current students website.