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Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Development

Course Rules

The Course Rules for this course can be found here.

Admission requirements


Admission to the:

  • Graduate Certificate in Medicine (Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Development)
  • Graduate Diploma in Medicine (Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Development)
  • Master of Medicine (Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Development)

requires a medical degree.


Admission to the:

  • Graduate Certificate in Science in Medicine (Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Development)
  • Graduate Diploma in Science in Medicine (Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Development)

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


Admission to the:

  • Master of Science in Medicine (Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Development)

requires the successful completion of an embedded degree program (Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma)with a minimum credit average; 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) (Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Development), and
  • Master of Science in Medicine (Advanced) (Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Development)

requires the student to have completed the requirements for the Master’s program with an average mark of at least 75% in 24 credit points of compulsory or stream specific units of study.

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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 of Medicine (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.
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