Short Courses
We offer a wide range of short courses and programs to meet your professional development needs. Our courses are accredited with various colleges and associations to assist you in meeting your CDP requirements. Our courses are developed and delivered by world renowned experts within the Monash University network. Read more about our upcoming courses below and register your interest to stay up to date.
Leadership and Innovation in Health
Monash University in collaboration with the Harvard Macy Institute will deliver a five-day short course, right on your doorstep in Melbourne. In this unique program on Leadership, Innovation and Sustainability in Health, thought leaders from Monash University, the Harvard Macy Institute, and Internationally, will share their expertise to provide you with innovative ways to tackle global healthcare challenges.
Assessment in Health Professions Education
Education in the health professions involves extensive assessment of students or trainees. This 3 day course is designed to help you develop or extend your knowledge about assessment and to provide you with frameworks to refine the implementation of assessment in your professional context.
Health Care Education 2.0 - Transforming your teaching for the digital age
This course will introduce participants to the theoretical and practical aspects of learning and teaching using freely available digital technologies. Participants will learn human cognitive processing capacity applied to multimedia, and contemporary frameworks to develop effective educational programs incorporating digital technologies.
Scenario design for simulation-based education
Simulation-based education often provides learners with an opportunity to develop clinical knowledge and skills in context.
Learning and Teaching with Simulation
Simulation modalities include task trainers, manikins, screen-based simulators and humans (simulated participants).
Learning conversations: Feedback and debriefing practices in clinical simulation
In this unit, students will examine how this type of communication – framed as learning conversations – can contribute to learning and teaching processes.
John Murtagh Annual Update Course 2018
The course is in its 40th year and is a regular feature of the postgraduate professional development calendar. The topics and presenters for this year’s program have been carefully selected and are based on both your recommendations and feedback from previous years’ Update Courses.
Optimising Venous Leg Ulcer Management In General Practice
This one day course will explore how best to optimise management, to improve the quality of care for people suffering venous leg ulcers. Speakers will present a clinical update of current evidence to improve healing outcomes for people with VLU. You will have the opportunity to engage and discuss challenges experienced in healing people with VLUs in general practice.
Qualitative Research in Health Professions Education
This course is designed for anyone undertaking qualitative research in health professions education and training. We cover each phase of the research process from identifying the issue to be investigated, writing research questions, selecting study design, data collection, analysis, reporting and dissemination.
Wound Care Management for Nurses
There is a growing gap between known best practice wound management and current wound care. Many practitioners are required to care for people who have wounds as part of their clinical role. As new evidence is rapidly emerging about this area of professional practice it is essential that education be made available to those whose practice includes wound management.
Wound Care Management for GPs
A one day course for GPs on wound care and general practice. This is a didactic and hands on course which will cover topics on how wounds heal, what prevents healing, how to assess acute wounds, chronic wounds and decisions of what and how to dress wounds as well as the role and use of bandages and compression therapy.
National Health Education and Training in Simulation (NHET-Sim)
The NHET-Sim Programme is designed for individuals from all professions across Australia who currently or intend to use healthcare simulation as an educational method with students or health professionals.
Introduction to Health Economic Modelling
This practical, 1-day course covers the basics of health economics (health technology assessment) and common methods used for undertaking economic evaluations: decision analysis, Markov modelling, life table analysis and Monte Carlo simulation for uncertainty and sensitivity analyses.
Keys to mental health care
The Keys to Mental Health Care Course is targeted at healthcare professionals and students of all disciplines who have an interest, or are actively engaged in mental health assessment and treatment provision.
Womens Mental Health
The Online Short Course in Women’s Mental Health aims to upskill clinicians to work sensitively and effectively with women of all ages experiencing mental ill-health, and to integrate an understanding of factors such as the role of trauma and endocrinology in the development of mental illness, as well as implications for treatments.
Emergency and Trauma
Our team of health and support professionals work together to provide timely, quality care. Based on this ethos, we have an active program of research, education and knowledge exchange activities open to all health professionals.
International Tailored Programs
Programs specifically tailored and designed by the MIHCE for specific participants.