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 provide effective and 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 communication 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.
NSW 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
Course delivery
Tuition Fees
Residential Weekends
Graduate Certificate in Clinical Medicine (Leadership and Management) exit award
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
- appointment of local Academic Supervisors to guide candidates through the program including recognition of Academic Supervisor contributions through per course honoraria
- University support for Academic Supervisors
- senior endorsement at the candidate's place of work that facilitates access to study leave or other requirements
- a truly versatile qualification and skill set that supports a range of medical career paths
- joining a growing network of medical leaders in hospitals
- In NSW Health, the completion of the Master's program offers the potential of a fast track to the senior hospitalist role. Graduates of the program are able to apply for Senior Hospitalist positions (Senior CMO grade equivalent) after five years experience rather then seven.
In all hospital settings, the learning attained through the Master's program will be seen as desirable and advantageous by prospective employers.
NSW Health employed candidates may also be eligible for sponsorship that supports the Senior Hospital Initiative. Information on how to apply for NSW Health sponsorship, is available here.
Program structure
The M Clin Med (L&M) 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.
Year 1
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
Year 2
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.
2013 Residential Workshops
CLAM6005 Clinical Medicine and Service Provision B
- Sat 2nd - Sun 3rd March 2013 - COFFS HARBOUR
CLAM6008 Application of Leadership and Management Skills
- Sat 17th - Sun 18th August - SYDNEY
Course delivery
The M Clin Med (L&M) 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 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 per course fee in 2013 is $3,280.
In 2013 applicants who receive NSW Health sponsorship will be invoiced for tuition fees of $1,968 per 10-unit course rather than $3,280.
Fees can be paid in two ways:
- Pay the fee up-front to the University.
- Apply for an interest free loan through the FEE-HELP Scheme (previously known as the Postgraduate Education Loans Scheme). The Government then pays your fee direct to the University and when you are earning $49,095 in the 2012/2013 financial year; indexed each year), you pay instalments back to the Government via the PAYG tax system.
You can find more information about the FEE-HELP Scheme from: http://studyassist.gov.au/sites/studyassist/helppayingmyfees/fee-help/pages/fee-help
You can find out more about NSW Health sponsorship from: http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/training/hospitalist/
More information about University of Newcastle domestic postgraduate fees, is available from here
In addition to course tuition fees, candidates must meet the travel and accommodation costs involved in attending the four weekend residential workshops.
Residential Weekends
Candidates are required to participate in a weekend residential workshop associated with each of the following courses:
CLAM6001 - 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 Residential weekends will be held in different locations depending on the cohort. Most likely - Sydney, Newcastle and a regional centre. Candidates are expected to meet all travel and accommodation costs.
Weekends are planned as 'retreats', and include a social component. Normally the workshops run from Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon.
Each weekend includes 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 hospital services in smaller rural communities.
Even more importantly, the weekends provide the opportunity for networking with candidates from other hospitals, and with senior Doctors and Executives in the NSW Health System. Candidates are encouraged to develop their own personal links with the senior leaders of the health system - the role that they're being trained to fulfill in future.
Graduate Certificate in Clinical Medicine (Leadership and Management) exit award
Where work or personal circumstances preclude completion of the full Masters program, candidates may apply to transfer to the 40-unit Graduate Certificate in Clinical Medicine (Leadership and Management) exit award.
