Postgraduate Diploma in Veterinary Public Health (EAD) (PD-VPHEAD) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

This course will reinforce and strengthen all the graduate attributes that will have already been achieved by the participants by way of their primary degree and work experience before enrolling in this postgraduate diploma course.

Academic excellence will be fostered by utilising the high level professional skills of internationally recognised experts in technical content and adult learning.

This course involves subject material across a wide range of disciplines including veterinary science, management, leadership, outbreak risk assessment, decision-making and communication. Participants in the course will be veterinarians, animal scientists and animal health professionals who are already in positions that bring them into professional contact with the general public and where they are involved in providing leadership in technical matters.

Generic skills

Upon completion of the Postgraduate Diploma in Veterinary Public Health (Emergency Animal Diseases), graduates should:

• Possess medium to high-level computing skills;
• Apply critical and analytical skills to the identification and resolution of problems;
• Communicate effectively; and
• Have good time management skills.

Graduate attributes

Graduates will have specialised knowledge and skills in a broad range of areas as required to fill a number of professional roles in emergency animal disease preparedness and response.

Graduates will be aware of the epidemiological, economic, environmental, political, social and welfare factors behind outbreaks of emergency animal disease and disease emergence.

The specialist skills and knowledge achieved will allow veterinarians and animal health professionals to provide advanced services in a broad range of aspects of emergency animal disease responses, in Australia and internationally.