Critical Care Medicine

Admission requirements

Admission to the:

• Graduate Certificate in Medicine (Critical Care Medicine)
• Graduate Diploma in Medicine (Critical Care Medicine)
• Master of Medicine (Critical Care Medicine)

requires a medical degree.

Admission to the:

• Graduate Certificate in Science in Medicine (Critical Care Medicine)
• Graduate Diploma in Science in Medicine (Critical Care Medicine)

requires a bachelor or postgraduate degree in a health or science related discipline.

Admission to the:

• Master of Science in Medicine (Critical Care Medicine)

requires the successful completion of an embedded degree program (Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma); or a bachelor degree in a health or science-related discipline with honours or 12 months relevant work experience; or a bachelor degree plus a postgraduate degree in a health or science-related discipline.

Admission to:

• Master of Medicine (Advanced) (Critical Care Medicine), and
• Master of Science in Medicine (Advanced) (Critical Care Medicine)

requires the student to be enrolled in the master's program, have completed the compulsory research unit of study and have an average mark of at least 75% in 24 credit points of compulsory or stream specific units of study.

Course structure

The Graduate Certificate requires the successful completion of 24 credit points of stream specific units of study.

The Graduate Diploma requires the successful 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; and
• 6 credit points of stream specific or general elective units of study.

The Master requires the successful completion of 48 credit points of units of study including:

• 12 credit points of compulsory units of study;
• 24 credit points of stream specific units of study; and
• 12 credit points of stream specific or general elective units of study.

The Master (Advanced) requires the successful completion of 60 credit points of units of study including:

• 48 credit points of study as required for the Master; and
• 12 credit points of project units of study.

The Master/Master of Philosophy requires the successful completion of 96 credit points of units of study including:

• 48 credit points required for the Master
• 48 credit points of research units of study.

Pattern of enrolment

Compulsory units of study

Stream specific units of study

General elective units of study

Project Units of Study - Master (Advanced)

Students accepted into the Master (Advanced) program must complete 12 credit points of project units of study.

Students must enrol in a minimum of 12 credit points of project units of study in order to submit their final written work.

International double degree students

Please note that the Double Degree program is not available in 2018

The double degree is only available to international students and is conditional upon the appointment of an appropriate supervisor. Domestic students can enrol in the separate degrees.

Also see course rules for further details.

The Master of Medicine or Master of Science in Medicine, and Master of Philosophy double degrees are a coursework master degree combined with a master degree in research

Places in the double degree program will be offered to qualified applicants according to the admissions criteria (see course rules). In exceptional circumstances the dean may admit applicants without these qualifications who, in the opinion of the school, have qualifications and evidence of experience and achievement sufficient to successfully undertake the award.

Students enrolled in the double degree will be required to have found a supervisor for their research degree and to submit a full research proposal for their Master of Philosophy by the end of the second semester of enrolment. In order to progress to the Master of Philosophy, students must complete the master's coursework component with a weighted average mark of at least 65 percent across all 48 credit points of coursework units.

In order to meet the academic the requirements of the double degree, students must complete 48 credit points of coursework for the coursework master's degree and the equivalent of at least one year full time for the Master of Philosophy by enrolling in 48 credit points of research units of study as shown in the following table.