Graduate Diploma of Health Leadership and Education
PostgraduateUND-HPE-GDI2025
Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake
Become an exemplary health educator
This industry-focussed postgrad qualification enables you to expand your educational practice. Grow your learning and facilitation knowledge. Consider research methods and ethical issues. Demonstrate best practice in contemporary health education.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Applications close
- 2 Feb 2025,
- 6 July 2025
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- 1 year full time or part time equivalent
- Total subjects
- 8
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
Graduate Diploma of Health Leadership and Education
About this degree
Upon successful completion of the Graduate Diploma of Health Leadership and Education graduates will be able to:
- Effectively apply relevant theories to leadership and educational practice and scholarship in the health education context.
- Analyse contemporary issues within health leadership and education and their significant influence on the application of contemporary professional practice.
- Engage in critical reflection to promote life-long learning to maintain and improve professional knowledge and skills.
- Develop sophisticated understandings of the unique nature of learning, teaching and leadership in the clinical and professional health context.
- Engage with critical thinking to solve ethical dilemmas in the culturally and socially diverse healthcare environment.
- Develop initiatives that enhance best practice principles of leadership and education in the unpredictable workplace.
- Apply accomplished communication and negotiation skills to influence and achieve optimum outcomes in the health professional context.
The Graduate Diploma of Health Leadership and Education is designed to meet the unique learning needs of interprofessional health leaders and educators in a variety of healthcare settings and clinical and/or academic contexts. In acknowledging complex lives and multiple priorities this degree is flexible. Learners will extend their foundational knowledge and skills in leadership and educational theory and practice to explore their professional development in the context of their specific leadership and educational practice.
This qualification provides a pathway for health professionals to expand their leadership and educational knowledge, skills and effective learning. The Graduate Diploma of Health Leadership and Education is an articulated qualification that forms the foundation for the Master of Health Leadership and Education.
Recommended study pattern
To be eligible for the award of Graduate Diploma in Health Leadership and Education students must complete a minimum of 200 Units of Credit consisting of:
Compulsory Subjects:
- PHIL6020 Ethical Issues in Professional Life (25 cp)
- MEDI5008 Research Methods in Health (25 cp)
Compulsory Electives:
- Health Leadership Compulsory Electives (students must select two electives from list below):
- MEDI5110 Contemporary issues in Health Professional Education and Leadership (25 cp)
- MEDI5124 Coaching and Supervision in Health (25 cp)
- Health Education Compulsory Electives (students must select two electives from list below):
- MEDI5121 Learning and Facilitation in Health Professional Education (25 cp)
- EDUC5116 Designing Curriculum for Effective Learning (25 cp)
- EDUC5117 Principles and Practices of Assessment and Evaluation (25 cp)
- General Electives (Students can select the remaining two elective courses from the Compulsory Electives list, and/or from below) :
- MEDI5004 The Australian Health Care System (25 cp)
- BUSN5750 Organisations: Power, Leadership and Transformation (25 cp)
- BUSN5740 Strategic Workforce Issues (25 cp)
- BUSN5680 Leading Change (25 cp)
- BUSN5003 Leading Change in a Catholic Context (25 cp)
- BUSN5100 Accounting for Managers (25 cp)
- EDUC5013 Leadership in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (25 cp)
Award requirements
To be eligible for the award of Graduate Diploma of Health Leadership and Education students must complete a minimum of 200 Units of Credit.
Degrees are usually made up of core subjects and electives. Some degrees include a choice of majors, so you can focus your studies on a specialisation.
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Indicative total fee $26,600
The amount shown here is indicative for an Australian citizen studying full-time, which is typically 8 subjects per year.
Fees may vary depending on:
- the subjects you choose
- credit from previous work experience
- your eligibility for government funding loans or subsidies such as HECS-HELP or a Commonwealth supported place.
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Entry requirements
To be eligible for admission to the Graduate Diploma of Health Leadership and Education applicants must meet the following specific requirements:
- As a minimum qualification, a recognised Bachelor degree in a health profession; or
- A Bachelor degree with evidence of specific professional and/or industry experience in health.
English as primary language.
All primary and secondary education was taught and assessed solely in English in a recognised country, Australia, the United Kingdom, the USA, Ireland, Canada (except Quebec), and New Zealand, or;
You have Completed 2+ years or full time equivalent tertiary study in English only at an institution in Australia, the United Kingdom, the USA, Ireland, Canada (except Quebec), and New Zealand, or;
International English Language Testing System (IELTS) assessment, or an equivalent English language proficiency assessment, with an overall IELTS (or equivalent) score of 7.0, with no individual band score below 7.0.
All English language tests are valid for two years from the date of completion.
Applications for Advanced Standing and Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) will be considered and reviewed on a case by case basis by UNDA's Student Administration.
Career opportunities
A Graduate Diploma of Health Leadership and Education can lead to private and public sector careers, including roles such as health manager, project evaluation/administration or policy officer, finance officer/chief finance officer, health business analyst, and health information officer. For those who graduates who choose more education-centred electives, this degree can lead to careers as a health professions educator, education researcher, staff development educator, medical educator, and clinical educator, across both the higher education settings, and within the public and private health sectors.
Australian job snapshots
Data sourced from Australian Jobs 2023.
Role | Earnings | Employment change |
|---|---|---|
Nurse Educators and Researchers | $93K to $120K | Up 10.8% |
Training and Development Professionals | $93K to $120K | Up 28.2% |
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