A candidate must successfully complete units totalling 120 credit points (cp) as detailed below. All units are valued at 10 credit points unless otherwise indicated.
| Unit type | Credit Points | Specific requirements |
Core
(6 units) | 60cp | Compulsory Core units totalling 60 credit points as per the list of units detailed below:
HEA580 Fundamentals in Aeromedical Retrieval
HEA581 Essential Skills in Adult and Obstetric Retrieval #
HEA582 Essential Skills in Neonatal and Paediatric Retrieval #
HEA583 Domestic and International Logistics
HEA584 Human System Extremes
PHM552 Epidemiology
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Specialist Elective
(4 - 6 units) | 60cp | Specialist Elective Units totalling 60 credit points selected from the list of available units detailed below: HEA508 Leading Safety and Quality Across a Diverse Workforce
HEA574 AI in Healthcare - Architecture and Implementation
NUR561 Diversity and Inclusion in Health
PHM516 Indigenous Health
PHM536 Health Systems, Planning and Evaluation
PHM553 Biostatistics
PHM592 Global Health
PHM593 Tropical Child Health
SWK556 Trauma Informed Practice The following units are no longer available:
HEA515 Health Informatics (not available from 2026)
HEA525 Emotional Intelligence in Practice (not available from 2026)
HEA572 Applied Health Project A (20cp) (not available from 2026)
HEA573 Applied Health Project B (20cp) (not available from 2026)
HEA585 Fundamentals of Health Emergency Preparedness and Response (not available from 2024)
HEA586 Health Emergency Preparedness and Response to Natural Disasters (not available from 2024)
HEA587 Health Emergency Preparedness and Response to Human Made Disasters (not available from 2024)
HEA588 Health Emergency Preparedness and Response to Communicable Disease Outbreaks (not available from 2024)
HSC501 Interprofessional Practice (not available from 2026) |
| | 120cp | Total Credit Points |
Course Rules (unless otherwise stated in the above course structure)
# Simulation block: Students are required to attend a 4-day on-campus simulation block for HEA582 and a 3-day on-campus simulation block for HEA581 as a part of these units. The intensive is held in Darwin, at the Casuarina campus, with students responsible for their own travel, accommodation and living expenses for the intensive.
COURSE CHANGES AND TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS - 2026
The following units have been added as specialist electives:
- HEA574 AI in Healthcare - Architecture and Implementation
- HEA508 Leading Safety and Quality Across a Diverse Workforce
- PHM536 Health Systems, Planning and evaluation
- NUR561 Diversity and Inclusion in Health
COURSE CHANGES AND TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS - 2025
HSC501 Interprofessional Practice added as a specialist elective
SWK556 Trauma Informed Practice added as a specialist elective
COURSE CHANGES AND TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS - 2023
- HEA572 and HEA573 moved from Core units to Specialist Elective units.
- HEA587 and HEA588 have been added as additional Specialist Elective units
- Due to HEA572 and HEA573 moving from Core to Specialist Elective units; Core unit requirements have decreased from 100 credit points to 60 credit points and Specialist Elective units have increased from 20 credit points to 60 credit points.
COURSE CHANGES AND TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS - 2022
HEA585 Fundamentals of Health Emergency Preparedness and Response and HEA586 Health Emergency Preparedness and Response to Natural Disasters added as additional Specialist Electives from 2022.
