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This articulated suite of courses aims to provide health professionals with advanced knowledge and skills to deliver quality education in health service settings. Clinical education is characterised by a symbiotic relationship between the learner, an experienced clinical educator and the health service.
These courses are a cornerstone for developing and retaining a well-trained and supervised clinician workforce with the help of skilled clinical educators who are committed to excellence in professional development.
They are specifically designed for a variety of health professionals involved in professional development, mentoring or clinical education at undergraduate and post-graduate levels without formal qualifications in education.
The courses are designed to provide you with an understanding of foundational principles of symbiotic clinical education, the ability to demonstrate advanced and applied knowledge and skills in clinical education, and the opportunity to contribute to this specialist body of knowledge by undertaking a significant piece of educational research.
It is 1 year in length on a full-time basis and can also be undertaken part-time.

Continuous professional development is an important part of the health industry. Specialise your career in the delivery of clinical education so that you can empower yourself and those around you to maintain relevance in the field. 

Graduate Diploma in Clinical Education

It is widely accepted in many professions that learning should continue beyond the acquisition of initial tertiary qualifications. The Graduate Certificate in Professional Learning will equip students with specialised knowledge in the areas of adult learning with particular emphasis on professional learning in practice and leading and building learning communities in professional practice contexts. The program will be highly relevant to all professionals at any level who are seeking the next step in their professional learning.It will be offered part-time over two trimesters to enable working professionals to undertake the program. Assessment can take the form of a portfolio, journal, report, essay, poster or presentation.Recognition and credit for prior learning is available and can be applied to the elective component of the program.

Engage with professional learning in practice, through planning and implementation. Build learning communities and specialise in adult learning. Build your skill set for work in HR, change management, higher education, or administration. 

Graduate Certificate in Professional Learning

The Master of Health Professional Education supports the acquisition of evidence-based practice as a framework, to develop clinicians’ knowledge and skills using contemporary learning and teaching strategies. Graduates from this course will have an advanced level of knowledge and skills to educate and lead education of and for health professionals, with the overall intention of improving safe and quality patient care. The degree will enable health educators to work across a range of health education settings and the understanding to employ educational strategies relevant to contemporary healthcare workplaces.The structure of the Master of Health Professional Education connects theory, practice and research and the structure of the course enables students to undertake studies relevant to their level of professional development and readiness to undertake further studies. It enables students to exit at an earlier level of qualification as well as continue building their knowledge and skills base due to the scaffolding approach of the program. Students can tailor their course by selecting one elective unit focusing on advancing skill and knowledge.

Contribute to quality patient care by educating clinicians. Study learning and teaching strategies specific to health professionals. Consider curriculum design, assessments and evaluations. Electives are available to broaden your focus.

Master of Health Professional Education

Continuous professional development is an important part of the health industry. Specialise your career in the delivery of clinical education as a leader. Forge your future as a mentor for the health professionals around you. 

Master of Clinical Education (Coursework)

The key to quality, dynamic clinical environments relies on well-prepared new team members and how well they integrate into the practice environment. Study UniSQ’s Master of Nursing (Clinical Education) and develop as a specialist clinical nurse educator to facilitate clinical learning for students, peers and other health professionals. Build expertise in creating innovative learning strategies relevant to clinical education in a health care setting. Explore facilitation in relation to pedagogical frameworks in both an online and blended learning environment.The Master of Nursing can be studied online and part-time, so you can progress your nursing career while fitting study into your life and occupation. Build specialist skills to review data-based research while identifying and implementing best practice for improving individual and community health outcomes. Develop advanced knowledge and skills in the development, analysis and application of health policies and health research through an independent research project to progress your own area of practice.

Start with the core elements of clinical education and work your way up to online pedagogy. Learn how to educate in the clinical setting. Create innovative learning strategies. You’ll design and lead sessions for peers and health professionals.

Master of Nursing (Clinical Education)

This Master of Health Professional Education is designed to meet the unique learning needs of health professional educators in medicine, nursing and allied health settings in academic and/or clinical contexts. The program will provide the learners with a wide repertoire of educational skills that are specifically tailored to a range of learning needs and challenges in contemporary health education contexts. The program encourages you to develop your educational skills in both clinical and non-clinical environments. Acknowledging complex lives and multiple priorities this degree is flexible. The self-directed courses are delivered fully online, allowing content to be accessed at a time, place and pace that best suits you. This qualification will provide a pathway for you as a health professional interested in developing your educational practice, ultimately preparing you to become an exemplary educational leader. Learners will be encouraged to innovate and lead purposeful change in their health professional context.

Hone your skills, including facilitation and research, and aim for best practice in contemporary health education. Extend your educational expertise. Explore the process of writing a research proposal. Prepare for a senior role or consider PhD studies.

This Graduate Diploma of Health Professional Education is designed to meet the unique learning needs of health professional educators in medicine, nursing and allied health settings in academic and/or clinical contexts. Acknowledging complex lives and multiple priorities this degree is flexible. The self-directed courses are delivered fully online, allowing content to be accessed at a time, place and pace that best suits you. Learners will extend their foundational knowledge and skills in educational theory and practice, clinical reasoning and supervisory role to explore their professional development in the context of their specific educational practice. This qualification provides a foundation for health professionals looking to expand their knowledge, skills and affective learning. The Graduate Diploma in Health Professional Education is an articulated qualification that forms the foundation for the Master of Health Professional Education.

This industry-focussed postgrad qualification enables you to expand your educational practice. Grow your learning and facilitation knowledge. Consider research methods and ethical issues. Demonstrate best practice in contemporary health education.

Graduate Diploma of Health Professional Education

This Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education is a highly practical degree designed to meet the unique learning needs of educators in health professional contexts who wish to extend their understanding of learning theory to their workplace. This postgraduate program is aimed at health professional educators in medicine, nursing and allied health settings in academic and/or clinical contexts. Acknowledging complex lives and multiple priorities this degree is flexible. The self-directed courses are delivered fully online, allowing content to be accessed at a time, place and pace that best suits you. This postgraduate degree, extends your understanding of learning theory, contemporary educational issues, clinical reasoning and supervision. The Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education is an articulated qualification that forms the foundation for the Graduate Diploma and/or Master of Health Professional Education.

This industry-focussed postgrad qualification enables you to develop your educational practice in both clinical and non-clinical environments. Study learning and facilitation theory and techniques. Gain formal recognition of your educational expertise.

Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education

The ACU Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education is to empower students to become capable and responsive educators of health professionals. Students will be supported in the learning of foundational theories, models and perspectives of learning and teaching with an emphasis on learning and practice development in workplaces. Students will explore the importance of constructive alignment in curriculum development, assessment strategies and evaluation of programs. The focus of this course will be to advance evidence-based learning and teaching activities and programs, coordinate collaboration among the health professions, and provide high quality learning experiences with the overall intention of enhancing safe and quality patient care. This course is designed for health care professionals seeking a pathway into health professional education. On successful completion of the Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education, graduates should be able to: describe learning and teaching perspectives, knowledge and skills required for health educators to provide quality learning and teaching opportunities that meets the needs of contemporary health professional education; apply specialist best-practice knowledge and skills to develop, implement, evaluate and communicate educational strategies that address, respond to, and align with educational priorities, approaches and technologies within the workplace; integrate the principles and perspectives of contemporary theories of workplace learning, to develop and implement culturally safe and inclusive curriculum design and assessment practices.

Learn the foundational theories of adult education that apply to health professionals. You’ll cover curriculum design, assessment, and evaluation. Strive to deliver inclusive learning opportunities in health settings.

Training and Development

Human Resource Development

Inter-professional Education and Practice in Dementia Care

This subject provides learners with the opportunities to explore knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for quality facilitation and learning in the health professions. Thesubject acknowledges the uniqueness of educating in health. Requiring specific pedagogical approaches and the need to embed certain types of knowledge and skills into practice.

Learning and Facilitation in Health Professional Education

The course provides the opportunity to develop professional HR skills through the examination and application of learning theories and HRD frameworks to individual, group and organisational development needs and challenges. Content includes development of skills in needs assessment, design, delivery and evaluation of training and development, reflection and analysis, the HRD professional role, application to organisational cases and current issues.Students should not enrol in this subject if they have completed: 7015EHR Advanced Human Resource Development

Widen the scope of your human resource studies as you polish your HR skills.Assess individual, group and organisational human resource development needs. Take in advanced leadership theories. Look to the future of HR learning and development

This subject provides learners with an opportunity to explore key contemporary issues facing health professional educators and leaders as we traverse the changing learning and healthcare landscape.Established principles pertaining to leading organisational change are explored to consider strategies and innovation in the way in which we plan and deliver educational change to improve established practices in health professional education.

Contemporary Issues in Health Professional Education and Leadership

Good assessment and evaluation in Higher Education has the potential to improve student learning, satisfaction, confidence in academic standards and retention. This subject allows teachers in higher education to advance their understanding of contemporary assessment practice by a critical engagement with contemporary assessment literature. From this foundation, students have the opportunity to examine how assessment is woven into the teaching and learning cycle and design and develop assessment instruments appropriate to Higher Education.

Principles and Practices of Assessment and Evaluation

This subject considers the knowledge and skills required to facilitate engaging learning experiences within applied learning settings. In the subject, you will examine the theoretical underpinnings of learner and teacher engagement in a range of contexts, including face-to-face and online, and develop and evaluate techniques aimed at increasing levels of engagement. Through practical assessment tasks, you will develop your facilitation skills and explore ways to increase participation of learners. In this subject, you will consider how educators can foster an environment where learners become increasingly responsible and self-directed in their own applied learning setting.This subject suits individuals with some experience in working with learners (e.g. practicing teachers, trainers, classroom aides, or industry people who have worked with apprentices) who are interested in exploring issues of student disengagement, drawing on theories of how and why students might be engaged and then trialing new facilitation approaches that target student engagement.Note: The second assessment task requires facilitation of a session with a class or small group of learners, so you will need to have access to a group to do this.

Facilitating Engaging Learning Experiences

Authentic assessment approaches are increasingly being applied in contemporary health professional education to actively engage learners in activities that resemble real‐world work interactions and problem‐solving. Health professional educators need the knowledge and skills to plan and design curricula, assessment tools and evaluation strategies as they apply to diverse healthcare settings. This subject will empower you to explore and apply a range of strategies and techniques to optimise health professional assessment and evaluation as a learning and teaching method.
To that end, this subject will help you learn about and apply educationally sound practices required to design effective curriculum which promote learner-centred education and inter-professional collaboration, in the context of healthcare professional education. You will examine curriculum concepts, and establish a familiarity with instructional design that focuses on inquiry-based and evidence-based learning approaches.
You will also be introduced to contemporary approaches to valid and reliable assessment of health professional learners, and be provided opportunities to develop and implement authentic assessment items, as well as practical experience in assessment. Finally, you will then critically analyse evaluation strategies to differentiate their anticipated purposes and outcomes, while taking into consideration the ethical, moral and legal issues.
The overall aim is therefore to prepare you to optimise the learner and learning experience through the development of theoretically informed curricula and authentic assessment, and provide you with the skills to evaluate the effectiveness of this learning in healthcare education.

Curriculum Design, Assessment and Evaluation in Health Professional Education

Leaders and managers in health care are expected to have a range of skills necessary to meet the challenges involved in leading their staff through a diverse and dynamic workplace environment. These challenges include: the evolving use of digital technologies in healthcare, ensuring patient safety, managing staff productivity, performance and retention as well as taking lead responsibility for quality improvement and cost efficiencies. Meeting these challenges requires effective skills that guide and shape practice improvement through facilitative processes that promote staff engagement, empowerment and retention, support team cohesion and collaboration and are more likely to result in a safe and high quality healthcare environment. Facilitative leadership, coaching and mentoring is based on mutual respect, trust and value alignment resulting in collective responsibility for patient safety, and fosters innovation in practice by promoting creativity and critical thinking.This unit aims to prepare students with facilitative leadership, coaching and mentoring skills that are required to build their capacity to apply a systems approach in facilitating, coaching and mentoring staff in working effectively together for the common good in a variety of healthcare settings.

Engage and empower staff in health care environments. You’ll study techniques in mentoring and coaching and build skills to put them in practice. Foster continuous improvement in healthcare settings. Build capacity, motivate, and support staff to evolve.

Facilitative Leadership, Coaching and Mentoring

In health professional education, it is a requirement that educators have the knowledge and skills to successfully facilitate learning for individuals and small groups with diverse learning styles. This subject provides an opportunity for you to critically examine, design and apply health professional facilitation models and strategies as they apply to different healthcare settings.
To that end, you will first explore the contexts of learning and teaching in the workplace setting, and different models of facilitation in health professional education, while considering the characteristics of diverse learners. You will then examine constructive alignment and learn how to develop teaching activities which encourage the use of decision making frameworks to improve critical thinking and reflective practice. Finally, you will explore ethical, moral and legal issues as these relate to your practice as an educator of health professionals. Scholarly evidence will be combined with practical community wisdom as important sources of your learning.
The overall aim is therefore is to provide you with a foundation of the principles and practices of effective health professional facilitation, to empower you to provide the optimal learning environment for healthcare students in their workplace.

Facilitating Learning in Health Professional Settings

Health professional education occurs in diverse and complex health settings. It is a requirement of the health professional educator to understand the context of contemporary health professional education, foundational theories and models, and contemporary approaches to health professional education in order to provide rich learning experiences. This subject helps you to learn about learner-centered approaches to facilitating health professional education in diverse settings. You will explore ethical, moral and legal issues impacting on health professional education, and critically analyse the concept inclusive education in relation to your practice.
To that end, you will first explore teaching approaches and models and theories of learning in the context of contemporary health professional education. You will then explore ethical, moral and legal issues as these relate to your practice as an educator of health professionals. This will include a critical evaluation of your own teaching and learning practice. Scholarly evidence will be combined with practical community wisdom as important sources of your learning.
The overall aim is therefore to provide you with a firm foundation of the theories, applications and priorities informing contemporary health professional education, and support you to relate and apply knowledge to your context.

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