Rural Postgraduate Programme

As a hands-on course designed for generalist doctors, the Certificate in Clinician-Performed Ultrasound (PGCertCPU) is aimed at those working in rural or emergency department settings, who want to learn clinician-performed ultrasound skills.

This course qualifies for MOPS credits as well as satisfying the requirement for "clinical attachment in base hospital" (for Rural Hospital Fellows) under the RNZCGP CPD programme.

This qualification is also frequently undertaken by emergency physicians, anaesthetists, and other clinicians seeking bedside ultrasound and ECHO skills.

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Postgraduate Certificate in Clinician Performed Ultrasound (PGCertCPU)

This certificate is a basic nationally recognised qualification for medical practitioners who staff rural and provincial hospitals. These doctors require broad-based, specific skills, which may extend beyond that of rural general medical practice.

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Postgraduate Certificate in Rural Clinical Practice (PGCertRCP)

This diploma is an advanced nationally recognised qualification for medical practitioners who staff rural and provincial hospitals. These doctors require broad based specific skills, which may extend beyond that of general practice (but not necessarily rural general practice).

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Postgraduate Diploma in Rural Clinical Practice (PGDipRCP)

The Master of Health Sciences can be completed either by thesis or a combination of papers and a smaller research project.

If you would like to consider teaching or research in the future, we would encourage you to do a higher degree. It is a great opportunity to undertake your first research in a supported environment.

Most PGDipRCP graduates do not have a research methods paper, so will need to complete one as part of their Masters'. If completing their Master of Health Sciences by research project, they will need to undertake a postgraduate-level research methods paper, obtaining a B+ grade or higher.

The Master of Health Sciences degree is a 240-point qualification. When proceeding from the PGDipRCP, most students are granted a 120-point exemption for the Diploma. They may then complete the remaining degree requirements by thesis, dissertation plus papers, or research project plus papers.

The research component (regardless of size) is usually the last component of the Master's. Students pursuing the thesis pathway who have not completed the research methods requirement during their Diploma will need to take it during the Master's (before submitting their thesis), which entails 30 additional points over and above the usual requirements.

Students are required to demonstrate that their MHealSc overall programme of study (total papers, credits and exemptions, research topic) constitute a coherent and integrated programme.

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Master of Health Sciences (MHealSc)