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Graduate Diploma of Medical Science

ProviderJames Cook University
Course code: SIA-90382UniversityStudy area: HealthCourse data availableData JSON

Course overview

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). You will 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.

Entry requirements

Postgraduate and higher courses usually use academic prerequisites, degree equivalence and English-language requirements.

Postgraduate entry

AQF level 7 bachelor degree in biomedical sciences or cognate degree; equivalent AQF level 7 bachelor degree in biomedical sciences or cognate degree Equivalent

English requirement
IELTS Academic 6.5

If your current English result is below direct entry, consider the university-recognised English language pathway or ELICOS package; successful completion at the required level can usually satisfy English entry without another English test.

Course curriculum

Course structure, credit points and subject sequence

Course curriculum not yet available

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