Graduate Diploma of Medical Science

Course Details

Learn from industry professionals in JCUs cutting-edge custom laboratories. Network and form professional relationships with potential future employers. Build on your existing medical, biomedical or clinical knowledge and experience with JCUs Graduate Diploma of Medical Science. This one-year degree has two pathways for students, one as a Medical Laboratory scientist (MLS) and the other as a Clinical Measurements scientist (CMS). Youll have extensive opportunities to apply your theoretical skills as you complete clinical placement at public and private Clinical Measurements or Medical Science Laboratories. Through this graduate certificate, you will gain advanced skills that will enable you to work in high-demand areas including regional, rural, remote, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Throughout your placement, you will apply recognised methods and tools of medical science to the process of enquiry and discovery, particularly in a clinical/medical investigative context. You will develop strong skills in communicating information to those with and without a medical or scientific knowledge base.

Qualification: Graduate Diploma

Course structure: 24 credit points.

This course includes prescribed professional or clinical placements. This course may have specific admission requirements such as immunisation, the requirement to obtain a Suitability to Work with Children Card, federal police check and/or other requirements that students must comply with. Students must complete all Professional Experience Placement requirements by the prescribed deadlines and maintain currency of all requirements in order to stay admitted in the course. For more information: https://www.jcu.edu.au/courses-and-study