Programme summary

Career opportunities

Courses & timetables

Admission requirements

[PGDipHSc]

8, 120 1.0
Full-time for one year or part-time for two years
Starts February or July
CA2258
Waitakere campus

$5920 plus $2000 clinical competency fee

International fees

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Programme summary

Gain advanced knowledge of specialist areas within medical imaging and healthcare practice. Learn to integrate theory and experience into your professional practice, and improve your research and professional skills.

Are you a medical radiation technologist or other health care professional looking to advance your career? The Postgraduate Diploma in Health Science focuses on the conceptual and critical understanding of clinical issues. Explore innovative approaches to problems within professional practice and leadership, and how to accept professional responsibility in a rapidly changing clinical environment. You also learn to integrate theory and experience into your professional practice, and improve your research and professional skills.

Highlights

• Advanced education for healthcare professionals.
• Not restricted to medical imaging professionals alone – the programme gives other health professionals the opportunity to study at a postgraduate level in areas such as clinical management, or education and supervision.
• Endorsed by the New Zealand Institute of Medical Radiation Technology and the Medical Radiation Technologists Board.
• A vibrant multi-professional setting.
• Based on your own area of clinical practice.
• Staff who are experts in their field of medical imaging.
• Classes are a mixture of online learning and on-campus block courses, and you can also study the Postgraduate Diploma in Health Science on a part-time basis.

Choose to study the Postgraduate Diploma in Health Science with no endorsement, or select from one of the following endorsements:

• Clinical Management
• Computed Tomography (medical imaging professionals only)
• Conventional Medical Imaging (medical imaging professionals only)
• Education and Supervision