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
- appointment of local Academic Supervisors to guide candidates through the program and perform course assessments locally
- University support for Academic Supervisors
- recognition of Academic Supervisor contributions through per course honoraria
- 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
- 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 Master 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*
Detailed course outlines can be found here.
*Attendance at a weekend Residential Workshop is required.
Residential weekend workshop - Semester 1, 2012 (CLAM6002)
- Friday 30th March (evening) to Sunday 1 April (lunchtime) - in SYDNEY
Residential weekend workshop - Semester 2, 2012 (CLAM6002)
- Friday 31st August (evening) to Sunday 2 September (lunchtime) - in NEWCASTLE
Course delivery
The M Clin Med (L+M) program is delivered using a blend of online e-learning and face-to-face modes. Course material is provided in print and digital formats prior to the commencement of each semester. The University's online learning system (Blackboard) facilitates communication via email, discussion forums, chat and a virtual classroom and provides access to announcements, course outlines, staff information, course documents and web resources.
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 2012 is $3,125. As there are 8 courses to complete the total program fee is $25,000.
Applicants who receive NSW Health sponsorship will be invoiced for tuition fees of $1,875 per 10-unit course rather than $3,125. Consequently the overall program cost for NSW Health sponsored candidates will reduce from $25,000 to $15,000.
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 $47,196 in the 2011/2012 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 Univeristy of Newcastle domestic postgraduate fees, ia 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:
Semester 1 Year 1 - Australian Health Service Organisation, Infrastructure and Management
- 2012 - Sydney, Friday 30 March - Sunday 1 April
- 2012 - Newcastle, Friday 31 August - Sunday 2 September
Semester 2 Year 2 - Application of Leadership and Management Skills
The four Residential weekends will each be held in a different location - Sydney, Newcastle, a regional centre and a rural centre - from Friday evening to Sunday lunchtime. Candidates are expected to meet all travel and accommodation costs.
Weekends will be planned as 'retreats', and include a social component.
Each weekend will include formal teaching time, particularly dealing with subject matter that is less suitable for online learning. There will also be less formal time, such as directly learning about the challenges of providing hospital services in smaller rural communities.
Even more importantly, the weekends will provide the opportunity for networking with candidates from other hospitals, and with senior Doctors and Executives in the NSW Health System. Candidates will develop their own personal links with the senior leaders of the health system - the role that they are 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. The Graduate Certificate requires completion of the following courses:
Evaluating, Assessing and Developing Clinical Competence
Australian Health Service Organisation, Infrastructure & Management*
Clinical Medicine and Service Provision A*
Clinical Practice Audit, Safety and Quality Improvement
*Attendance at a weekend Residential Workshop is required.
