Principles of Personal Injury Scheme Design - PDM1138

In this nine-week course you will gain an understanding of the policy rationale and parameters governing personal injury scheme design.

The centrepiece of this course is the three-day "Residential intensive" teaching period. After five weeks of online-based learning, you will have an unmatched opportunity to foster new professional networks with students, course presenters and other insurance industry experts in an environment that fosters critical thought and robust discussion. You'll have an opportunity to present your teams' solution to a scheme design challenge to a panel of industry experts.

Who should attend

This course would be ideal for anyone interested in learning more about designing schemes that support personal injury and disability management scheme design across Australia, New Zealand and beyond, with a view to improving their ability to operate in and influence the success of compensation scheme design.

What you will learn

On completion of this course participants will be able to:

  • Critique the role of personal injury statutory insurance schemes within Australia’s social protection ecosystem.
  • Evaluate scheme performance across key parameters impacting performance and synthesise intrinsic risks for schemes not attaining their desired objectives
  • Design scheme responses to address performance objective measures, ensuring appropriate balance between competing stakeholder interests
  • Identify emerging technological and societal developments and recommend changes in scheme design and administration using an evidence-based policy evaluation framework

Program structure

  • Topic 1: Philosophical underpinnings of scheme design
  • Topic 2: Fundamentals of scheme design
  • Topic 3: Workers’ compensation insurance in Australia
  • Topic 4: CTP insurance in Australia
  • Topic 5: Compensation, care and support for catastrophic injury
  • Topic 6: Other personal injury insurance arrangements
  • Topic 7: Challenges and emerging issues in personal injury compensation

Accelerate your qualification

Eligible participants who complete the micro-credential can receive 6 credit points of unspecified credit towards the Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma of Personal Injury Management, Master of Public Health/Master of Occupational Health.

Note: Successful completion of a micro-credential does not guarantee admission into an award course. Prospective students must meet the eligibility and admission requirements for the award course. A micro-credential can only be used as credit towards a single degree on one occasion, and is valid for 7 years.

For more details please email pgradenq@monash.edu or shortcourses.depm@monash.edu.

Dr Michael Di Donato

Dr Michael Di Donato

Dr Michael Di Donato is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Healthy Working Lives Research Group at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. His doctoral studies explored the interaction between income support systems and healthcare for workers with low back pain. Dr Di Donato’s research seeks to understand the impact of policy changes on healthcare service use and social welfare outcomes in compensated workers, to create readily reportable indicators of quality of care delivered to workers with low back pain, and continue development of a large scale health service research database. His areas of interest include social welfare and income support systems, healthcare delivery and quality for low back pain, and how compensation system policy influences worker disability and recovery.

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