Graduate Diploma of Lifestyle Medicine

Program Overview

The Graduate Diploma of Lifestyle Medicine from JCU equips healthcare professionals with the skills to manage lifestyle-related health problems and prevent chronic illnesses. This flexible, online program offers core subjects in lifestyle medicine, health coaching, and research methodologies, along with elective options in public health, business, and health professional education. Graduates are sought-after leaders in the field, eligible for a Fellowship of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine and qualified for careers in clinical practice, public health, research, and more.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

• Health care professionals can enhance their careers by expanding their expertise with lifestyle medicine.
• Benefit from new research, technology, and multi-disciplinary healthcare education in this fast-growing discipline.
• Gain the skills to manage lifestyle-related health problems, and prevent and reverse common chronic physical and mental health illnesses.
• Experience high-quality teaching and programs, with opportunities to engage with innovation and entrepreneurship in the health, community, and industry spaces.
• Critically investigate and assess lifestyle-related disease, including diverse models of care.
• Learn to apply theories in psychological, medical, nutritional, and addiction science in various health contexts.
• This flexible, online course takes two years to complete part-time.
• Study four core subjects plus choose from electives in research, public health, business, and health professional education to align with career goals.
• Build a network with connections to high-profile clinicians, researchers, industry experts, and innovators in the field of lifestyle medicine.
• With studies indicating that the majority of chronic disease burden is preventable with lifestyle interventions, the demand for lifestyle medicine professionals will only increase.
• Graduates of JCU’s Graduate Diploma of Lifestyle Medicine are sought-after leaders with the skills to improve health care innovatively and holistically.
• All health professionals are encouraged to apply.
• Students who complete the Graduate Diploma of Lifestyle Medicine will be eligible for a Fellowship of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine.
• Graduates can also go on to complete the Master of Lifestyle Medicine.

Outline:

• Core Subjects:
• HS5800:03 Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine
• HS5801:03 Health Coaching and Behaviour Change
• HS5802:03 Models of Care and Innovation in Lifestyle Medicine
• HS5810:03 Lifestyle Medicine Assessment and Prescription
• HS7405:03 Research Methodologies for Health Professionals
• Options:
• Select 6 credit points of subjects from List 1:
• HS5111:03 Alcohol and Other Drugs
• TM5506:03 Social Science in Public Health
• TM5502:03 Tropical Public Health
• TM5510:03 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Education
• HS5405:03 Teaching for Learning in Health Professions
• HS5409:03 Innovative Teaching in the Health Professions
• HS7411:03 Leadership in Health Professional Education
• Health Promotion
• LB5202:03 Marketing Essentials
• TM5528:03 Health Promotion
• Research
• TM5513:03 Public Health Management, Leadership, Planning, and Policy
• TM5515:03 Epidemiology for Public Health
• TM5516:03 Biostatistics for Public Health
• TM5526:03 Public Health Economics

Careers:

• There is an increasingly high demand for lifestyle and public health expertise in almost all healthcare industries, including primary care, tertiary hospital settings, community projects, industry, not-for-profit, and government sectors.
• Graduates of JCU’s Graduate Diploma of Lifestyle Medicine will have the skills to consult and lead clinical and research programs in various healthcare settings.
• This course provides qualifications to support careers in clinical practice, public health, research, teaching, consultation for health care systems, occupational programs, industry, and community programs.