Program Overview

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Graduate Certificate of Travel Medicine

Advance your professional skills and develop specialist knowledge in travel medicine. This Graduate Certificate is designed to equip you for a career that spans domestic and international health. You’ll gain practical and technical experience in appraising travel risks, investigating and mitigating travel-related diseases, and promoting health education to travellers.

Fast Facts

• Domestic: You’re a domestic student if you are a citizen of Australia or New Zealand, are an Australian permanent resident, or hold an Australian permanent humanitarian visa.
• International: You’re an international student if you intend to study on a student visa, are not a citizen of Australian or New Zealand, are not an Australian permanent resident, or don’t hold an Australian permanent humanitarian visa.

Location

• Online: The course can be studied off-campus using a combination of online resources, printed material or other technologies. Some online courses include on-campus workshops and travel for professional placements.
• Townsville: This course requires some on-campus attendance.

Commencing

• Online: February, July

Fees

• Indicative, annual cost: $16,930.00
• Student Services & Amenities Fee: A required payment from most students.
• Fee deferral and scholarships: Available if eligible.

Duration

• 1 year part-time: The time it will take you to complete the course as a full-time student. Also specifies if the course is available part-time.

Entry Requirements

• AQF level 7 bachelor degree: In a relevant Health discipline; or equivalent.

Course Code

• 73511

Course Detail

What to expect

Ready to expand the horizons of your career in health and medicine? Build on your existing medical knowledge and experience with the Graduate Certificate of Travel Medicine at JCU. Gain specialist knowledge in the disciplines of travel and tropical medicine and their related areas. You will enhance your existing knowledge and skills to aid travellers coming and going from tropical regions.

As you study the Graduate Certificate of Travel Medicine, you will learn how to investigate and manage travel-related diseases, perform risk assessments and promote the health of travellers. You’ll learn about the current national and international practices of the travel medicine field, ensuring that your skills and abilities are applicable in multiple contexts. You will gain an in-depth understanding of epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation complications, differential diagnosis, and investigation and management of travel-related communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Study in state-of-the-art facilities with expert lecturers who are committed to your success. Benefit from JCU’s partnership with the Townsville University Hospital. Carve out your space in the field of travel medicine with a course that is accredited as an approved qualification by the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine for their fellowship program within The Faculty of Travel Medicine.

Inherent Requirements

Inherent requirements are the identified abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours that must be demonstrated, during the learning experience, to successfully complete a course. These abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours preserve the academic integrity of the University’s learning, assessment, and accreditation processes, and where applicable, meet the standards of a profession.

Career Opportunities

JCU Travel Medicine graduates have skills and knowledge that can be utilised in many settings within the healthcare industry. Graduates pursue careers in public and private hospitals, clinics and health-based organisations.

You can also go on to undertake the Graduate Diploma of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Graduate Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Master of Public Health, or Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Real Stories

• Alumni: Dr Faith Alele, Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
• Lecturer: Associate Professor Lars Henning, Graduate Certificate of Travel Medicine

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