Graduate Diploma in Medicine (Internal Medicine)
Program Overview
The Graduate Diploma of Medicine (Internal Medicine) is a practical and clinically focused course designed to enhance your diagnostic, investigative, and management skills in adult medicine. It comprises 36 credit points of study, including compulsory, stream-specific, and elective units. The program is delivered online with intensive face-to-face teaching sessions and is led by Associate Professor Christian Girgis.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
Our Graduate Diploma of Medicine (Internal Medicine) is a practical and clinically focused course that will refine your ability to diagnose, investigate and manage important diseases in adults. It will guide your care of patients and will be readily integrated into your daily clinical work.
Objectives:
The program has been designed to enable you to diagnose, investigate and manage the common and important adult diseases of the organ systems. The knowledge you gain will be directly applicable to patient care and readily integrated into your day-to-day work.
Outline:
The Graduate Diploma in Medicine (Internal Medicine) requires the completion of 36 credit points of units of study including:
- 6 credit points of compulsory units of study
- 24 credit points of stream specific units of study
- 6 credit points of stream specific or general elective units of study. INTM stream specific units are offered at a basic and advanced level and over the next 2 years, all the major subspecialties will be available. It is recommended that students who are working full-time consider undertaking no more than 6 - 12 credit points per semester.
Course Schedule:
Please note most of the INTM stream specific units of study are 3 credit points. All other units are 6 credit points. All core learning material is delivered online and some units of study have an intensive face-to-face teaching session.
Individual Modules:
- Compulsory Units of Study: 6 credit points
- Stream Specific Units of Study: 24 credit points
- Stream Specific or General Elective Units of Study: 6 credit points
Teaching:
This program is directed by Associate Professor Christian Girgis.
Careers:
The coursework will focus on:
- clinical skills
- rational use of investigative technology
- appropriate therapeutic decision making
- inclusive patient management; and assumes a working knowledge of the basic sciences. The program will emphasise evidence-based practice while providing guidance in areas where the evidence base is lacking or inconclusive.
Other:
We are a top 20 university globally (QS World University Rankings 2024). 2nd in Australia and 25th globally for medicine (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023).
