Palliative Care

The Graduate Certificate in Palliative Care is designed for registered caregivers with substantial clinical, policy or educational health experience that are looking to expand their medical care skills to eventually develop into future palliative care experts in their area. This class offers sustainable, high interdisciplinary education, delivered and developed in cooperation with leading contemporary experts in the field. Each of those four themes comprises a variety of theory, clinical and behavioral practice, and will be finished in part-time manner. Subjects add a variety of current healthcare contexts (including complex communicating, social justice, ethics and law, and general health) so students may practise safely and proficiently to present person-centred health maintenance and also contribute to quality outcomes for those in their care. The class has strong connections to industry and also is strictly grounded in best and contemporary evidence-based, person-centred health care practices. The class closely integrates theory and practice-based learning and assessment in a mixture of online learning, class room, state-of-the-art simulation laboratories and authentic clinical settings. Guest presenters incorporate industry-based health practitioners as well as other experts from a selection of clinical settings to ensure that skills and knowledge are evidence-based and demonstrably reflect complex practice since it really is today. Presenters adopt a variety of teaching and learning strategies to enhance the student experience, such as participatory online and realtime learning tasks, communities of training, media tools, podcasts and case-based scenarios. These course features ensure that pupils are practice-ready, able to perform in dynamic and varying health environments and prepared to make significant contributions to favorable patient outcomes.

• Applicants should have completed an UTS approved bachelor's degree, or an equivalent or higher qualification, or submitted additional evidence of general and professional qualifications that shows possibility to pursue graduate studies. In addition, applicants will need to fulfill the following: concurrent access or employment to the clinical area of study, and 12 months post registration clinical experience. Registered caregivers who don't meet the admission criteria for a brink offer - such as for instance applicants who do not have an undergraduate degree but have relevant work experience - can be considered eligible. Applicants must show evidence of a capacity to undertake tertiary study via entry of a CV which should include details of conclusion of hospital or faculty certificates and professional or staff development. The Faculty inspections and determines whether the applicant is eligible based on evidence of prior learning and proven capability. The English proficiency requirement for local applicants with international qualifications is: Academic IELTS: 6.5 overall with a writing score of 6.0
• Or TOEFL: paper based: 550-583 complete with TWE of 4.5, online: 79-93 complete with a writing score of 2 1
• Or AE5: Pass
• Or PTE: 58-64
• Or CAE: 176-184. Eligibility for admission doesn't guarantee offer of an area.