AUT - Health Care Ethics
Health Care Ethics
Today’s high-pressure health care environment continually creates complex ethical and legal problems. However, health professionals do not always possess sufficient knowledge and skills to deal confidently and effectively with these challenges. Our papers in ethics and health law address this gap, seamlessly combining scholarly inquiry with practical application. They offer a comprehensive education in ethics and an introduction to legal analysis for health care professionals of all kinds.
Students, provided they meet the entry requirements, can enter postgraduate programmes at the postgraduate certificate, postgraduate diploma or masters levels outlined below.
Postgraduate Certificate in Health Science in Health Care Ethics (AK3484) 60 points
The PgCertHSc provides students with the opportunity to undertake an approved course of study to advance their specialty discipline, knowledge and scholarly development. This programme comprises three 20-point papers, which can contribute 60 points towards a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Science, Master of Health Science or Master of Health Practice.
Students complete papers:
588735 Health Law (20)†
589810 Applied Health Care Ethics I (20)
SELECT ONE:
588637 Specialist Readings (20)
589660 Ethics of Emerging Biological and Health Science (20)
Postgraduate Diploma in Health Science in Health Care Ethics (AK3487) 120 points
The PgDipHSc is a coursework programme which can lead into the Master of Health Science or Master of Health Practice. It provides students with the opportunity to undertake an approved course of study to advance their specialty discipline, knowledge and scholarly development. Postgraduate Certificate in Health Science graduates can add two core papers and a speciality paper to complete this postgraduate diploma.
Postgraduate Certificate in Health Science in Health Care Ethics papers (60)
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SELECT ONE:
588631 Quantitative Research Methods (20)†
588639 Qualitative Research Methods (20)†
SELECT ONE:
588623 Professional Practice (20)†
588644 Practice Reality (20)†
AND
588637 Specialist Readings (20)
OR
589660 Ethics of Biological and Health Science Technologies (20)
OR
One approved optional paper (20)
Master of Health Science (AK3485) 240 points
The MHSc provides an opportunity for graduates from a variety of health backgrounds to advance their scholarly and professional knowledge in an inter-professional and collegial learning environment, and to develop research capabilities. This degree comprises core and specialist papers and a thesis or dissertation, which gives students the opportunity to complete research relevant to their programme of study.
Postgraduate Diploma in Health Science in Health Care Ethics papers (120)
Within this subject area other relevant optional papers may be undertaken with the approval of the Associate Dean Postgraduate. Optional papers may be selected from other relevant subject areas.
† Flexible learning: involves online, block course or distance learning (subject to change)