Graduate Diploma of Clinical Physiology

James Cook University

Build on your existing medical, biomedical or clinical knowledge and experience with JCU’s Graduate Diploma of Clinical Physiology. This one-year degree is a pathway for students wanting to work as a Clinical Measurements Scientist (CMS). You’ll have extensive opportunities to apply your theoretical skills as you complete clinical placement at public and private Clinical Measurements Laboratories.

Through this graduate diploma, you will gain advanced skills that will enable you to work in high-demand areas including regional, rural, remote, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Throughout your placement, you will apply recognised methods and tools of clinical physiology to the process of enquiry and discovery, particularly in a clinical investigative context. You will develop strong skills in communicating information to those with and without a medical or scientific knowledge base.

As you complete the Graduate Diploma of Clinical Physiology, you will transition to work alongside experts in the clinical sciences field the network connections that you make and professional relationships that you form will have the potential to lead to future employment.