Master of Health Professions Education (M6038)
The Master of Health Professions Education qualifies individuals to apply principles and theories that inform educational practice in a range of clinical and other relevant contexts, to undertake professional and highly skilled work and as educators in the health professions.
Taught by leaders in health professions education, with interactive learning opportunities, you’ll develop the professional skills to effectively teach and supervise in both clinical and non-clinical environments.
This practice-based qualification builds on the existing M4009 Graduate Certificate of Health Professions Education.
Graduates of the existing M4009 course will be granted 24CP entry into the Master of Health Professions Education.
Course structure
This course consists of 48 credit points (CP) (based on entry level 2) structured as bellow:
- 12CP: HPE5100 Foundations of health professions education
- 6CP: Assessed short course 1
- 6CP: Assessed short course 2
- 6CP: Assessed short course 3
- 6CP: Assessed short course 4
- 12CP HPE5200 Health Profession education in practice
SHORT COURSES: Short courses are chosen from the list below. Not all short courses are available every semester, dates and delivery of the courses can be found via the links below:
Compulsory short course
Short course electives
- Scenario Design for Simulation-based Education
- Fundamentals of Clinical Coaching
- Evolving Health Leadership
- Learning Conversations: Feedback and debriefing practices in clinical practice and in simulation
- Quality Supervision in Health and Human Services Course
- Learning and Teaching with Simulation
- Introduction to research in health professions education (NB this course is 12CPs)
- Qualitative research methods for public health
(Maximum 1 short course can be chosen from this section)
Students also have the option of taking research-based units as a PhD pathway
Course Director
Professor Simone Gibson
Director of Education, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health
Professor Simone Gibson is the Director of Education for the Sub-Faculty of Clinical and Molecular Medicine and Director of Monash Centre for Scholarship in Health Education (MCSHE). She leads quality and innovation in education for health professions. She is a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators and on the editorial board of their journal, Focus on Health Professional Education.
Simone was awarded a national Teaching Excellence award in 2018 by the Australian Awards for University Teaching; and in 2017 the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence and the Dean's Award for Excellence in Education (Quality of Teaching), demonstrating her commitment to student training.
Simone is the Director of the Master of Health Professions Education and aims to support the future leaders in clinical and health education.
Find out more about Prof Simone Gibson.