Clinical Exercise Physiology

Exercise Physiology is a Allied Health Profession that centers around the delivery of exercise, behavioral and lifestyle modification programs to help prevent and manage chronic illness and injury. Exercise Physiologist work on hospitals and private practices and also are entitled to both Medicare and Private Health Rebates. The Graduate Diploma in Clinical Exercise Physiology will give you the abilities and capacity to develop, execute and manage physical activity and behavioural programs to healthy clients, and clients coping with a range of conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and osteoporosisand depression, cancer, and arthritis, and respiratory illness and many more. Like a Murdoch Clinical Exercise Physiology student you will get practical expertise within our purpose built, state-of-the-art facilities that have a separate exercise physiology lab, a rehabilitation and endurance and conditioning lab, and a functioning lab, complete with a 3D motion capture system and a 50 meter running track. Our supportive learning environment and small class sizes mean you can really get to know your lecturers and benefit from their experience and skills. This course will extend your foundational knowledge of this structure and function of your anatomy attained during the completion of a relevant Bachelor's degree. The training and information within this postgraduate offering will allow you to employ this foundational knowledge into a selection of clinical populations. The degree of Graduate Diploma in Exercise Physiology is going to be granted at the completion of this 1-year (full time ) program. After course accreditation, you will qualify as a Accredited Exercise Physiologist (AEP). You will also be eligible to set off on a Master's degree, following one further year of study.

Entrance into this course is confined to people completing the requirements of a licensed (through ESSA: Exercise and Sports Science Australia) Exercise Science degree with minimum GPA of 2.0 (or association equivalent). Specific to Murdoch University (internal) students: Entrance into this course is confined to individuals maintaining minimum GPA of 2.0 (or equivalent course weighted average markers ) and completing each of of components within the BSc (Movement Science) and BSc (Sport and Health Science). This course comes with a lien, hence the minimum GPA may possibly perhaps well not guarantee entrance into the course and the indicative GPA may vary from year to year.