We recognise the current challenges facing health educators and their important role in successful student learning experiences and quality graduate outcomes.
The Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education provides professional development for educators from health professions wanting to improve their workplace teaching and learning skills.
Program features
- Offered part-time
- Flexible; commence in either semester 1 or semester 2 and complete over one or two years via a mix of on-campus intensive face-to-face workshops, online and paper-based resources, and workplace-based learning
- Strong multidisciplinary basis integrating knowledge and best practice from a range of health professions
- Use of real-life examples
- Assessment items tailored to individual professional needs and interests
- Pathways to postgraduate (Masters degrees) and higher degree study available
As the only health educator program of its kind in Queensland, it's sure to help improve the health of your career, while also improving the skills of the students you teach.
Multidisciplinary teaching expertise
To help meet the growing need for education within clinical settings, a team of experienced health professionals and educators designed the Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education to integrate knowledge and best practice from a range of health disciplines.
Health professionals from a variety of health disciplines teach into the program and bring their varied experiences and expertise to the face-to-face workshops and course material.
A comprehensive program of informal and formal education is required to support clinical educators. Where possible, interprofessional training should be utilised to increase peer support among clinical educators across various professions. Such education should be delivered in a range of formats (e-learning, face-to-face, and combined formats), be consistent with principles of adult learning, and be recognized as part of ongoing professional development.
Rodger, S., Webb, G., Devitt, L., Gilbert, J., Wrightson, J. (2008). Clinical Education and Practice Placements in the Allied Health Professions: Journal of Allied Health: 37(1): pp ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source.
Multidisciplinary student body
The Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education is open to health professionals from a variety of health disciplines including
- dentistry
- medicine
- nursing
- nutrition and dietetics
- oral health therapy
- pharmacy
- physiotherapy
- psychology
- social work
As a student in a multidisciplinary cohort you will have the opportunity to collaborate, exchange knowledge and varied perspectives and learn from your peers.
Sharing ideas between the different clinical disciplines has been interesting, especially given that everyone is working towards better staff training, better clinical practice and better care for patients.
Ms Cheryl Hunt - Registered Nurse, Associate Lecturer School of Nursing and Midwifery Griffith University, Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education student