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Specialist Certificate in Cancer Sciences (SC-CNCRSC) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

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Intended learning outcomes

This course is designed to position participants to be effective contributors and leaders in the cancer workforce.

Graduates of the Specialist Certificate in Cancer Sciences will have the ability to:

  • Identify complex information, problems and theories
  • Utilise evidence to inform decision making
  • Show competency in written and oral communication
  • Demonstrate effective time management and organisational planning
  • Apply their knowledge and skills to improve the clinical care of cancer
  • Gather the evidence that underpins cancer research and clinical care
  • Define current clinical practices, research literature and accepted cancer paradigms
  • Recognise the importance of communicating and working collaboratively with other cancer care professionals in multidisciplinary teams
  • Outline knowledge across several domains relevant to the cancer sciences
  • Identify and evaluate the emerging technologies and techniques in research and clinical care

Generic skills

  • Advanced analytic skills
  • Skills in working collaboratively with individuals, groups and organisations
  • Increased capacity to manage unfamiliar problems
  • Improved written communication skills
  • Increased ability to work independently and be self-motivated

Graduate attributes

Academically excellent

  • Have a strong sense of intellectual integrity and the ethics of scholarship
  • Be critical and creative thinkers, with an aptitude for continued self-directed learning
  • Be adept at learning in a range of ways, including through information and communication technologies

Knowledgeable across disciplines

  • Have the capacity to participate fully in collaborative learning and to confront unfamiliar problems
  • Have a set of flexible and transferable skills for different types of employment

Leaders in communities

  • Have excellent interpersonal and decision-making skills, including an awareness of personal strengths and limitations
  • Engage in meaningful public discourse, with a profound awareness of community needs

Attuned to cultural diversity

  • Value different cultures
  • Be well-informed citizens able to contribute to their communities wherever they choose to live and work
  • Have an understanding of the social and cultural diversity in our community
  • Respect indigenous knowledge, cultures and values

Active global citizens

  • Accept social and civic responsibilities
  • Be advocates for improving the sustainability of the environment
  • Have a broad global understanding, with a high regard for human rights, equity and ethics

Last updated: 10 November 2023