Potential Candidates
INFORMATION FOR POTENTIAL CANDIDATES
Recognition is growing internationally that the quality of hospital patient care is enhanced by doctors with generalist expertise who can lead and provide effective coordinated patient care across specialist disciplines.
As the number of patients with multiple conditions increases, we need more doctors with the clinical skills, organisational knowledge and capacity for inter-professional leadership to manage patients at the 'front-line'.
Whatever their clinical roles in hospitals, these are the doctors that hospitals will need more of in the future.
The NSW Ministry of Health is proactively supporting the growth of a highly-skilled generalist medical workforce through its Senior Hospitalist initiative.
Benefits of enrolling in the Master of Clinical Medicine (Leadership and Management)
Program structure
Residential Workshops
Course delivery
Tuition Fees
Benefits of enrolling in the Master of Clinical Medicine (Leadership and Management)
The program offers a range of benefits to candidates and their Departmental / Organisational Sponsor, including:
- flexible delivery, designed to suit the requirements of doctors working and studying concurrently. Note: each course requires a commitment of about 10 hours a week
- a truly versatile qualification and skill set that supports a range of medical and leadership career paths
- joining a growing network of medical leaders in hospitals
- The learning attained through the Master's Program will be seen as desirable and advantageous by prospective employers in all hospital settings
NSW Health employed candidates may also be eligible for sponsorship that supports the Senior Hospital Initiative. Information on how to apply for the NSW Ministry of Health sponsorship, is available here.
Program structure
The M Clin Med is an 80-unit coursework Masters level program in which candidates complete eight compulsory courses (listed below). Several courses provide opportunities for candidates to select an area of personal interest as the subject of an assessment task.
Compulsory Core Courses
CLAM6001- Evaluating, Assessing and Developing Clinical Competence
CLAM6002- Australian Health Service Organisation, Infrastructure & Management*
CLAM6003- Clinical Medicine and Service Provision A*
CLAM6004- Clinical Practice Audit, Safety and Quality Improvement
CLAM6005- Clinical Medicine and Service Provision B*
CLAM6006- Foundations of Clinical Leadership and Management
CLAM6007- Anatomy of the Hospital
CLAM6008- Application of Leadership and Management Skills*
*Attendance at a weekend Residential Workshop is required.
Detailed course outlines can be found here.
Residential Workshops
Candidates are required to participate in a weekend residential workshop associated with each of the following courses:
CLAM6002- Australian Health Service Organisation, Infrastructure and Management
CLAM6003- Clinical Medicine and Service provision A
CLAM6005- Clinical Medicine and Service provision B
CLAM6008- Application of Leadership and Management Skills
The four weekend residential workshops will be held in different locations. Candidates are expected to meet all travel and accommodation costs.
The workshops include invited speakers who are recognised leaders in their own field, formal teaching time (dealing with subject matter that is less suitable for online learning) and less formal time, such as discussions about the challenges of providing clinical leadership in a constantly changing health system.
2014 Residential Workshops
Semester 1 2014-
CLAM6002 Australian Health Service Organisation, Infrastructure and Management,
- Saturday 8 March- Sunday 9 March 2014- Location- Newcastle, NSW.
Semester 2 2014-
CLAM6003 Clinical Medicine and Service provision A,
- Saturday 2nd August - Sunday 3rd August 2014 - venue to be advised.
Course delivery
The M Clin Med program is delivered using a combination of online e-learning and face-to-face modes. Course material is provided via the University's online learning system (Blackboard) which facilitates communication between candidates and teaching staff via email, discussion forums, wikis and blogs and provides access to announcements, course outlines, course content, assessment items and web 2.0 resources.
Candidates must be prepared to become familiar with Blackboard within the first week or two of semester.
Tuition Fees
The program is a full fee postgraduate degree with tuition fees being charged on a per course basis. The Indicative fees can be found at:
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/service/fees/postgraduate-domestic.html
You can find more information about the FEE-HELP Scheme from: http://studyassist.gov.au/sites/studyassist/helppayingmyfees/fee-help/pages/fee-help
In addition to course tuition fees, candidates must meet the travel and accommodation costs involved in attending the weekend residential workshops.
