If you want an exciting career that  stimulates you, challenges you, and rewards you, then a postgraduate degree in science sets you on the right path.

This Graduate Diploma provides an avenue for further study under certain circumstances, if:

• You are ineligible for entry to Honours at UWA
• You want proceed to Master's candidature
• You want an advanced qualification in a specific area of expertise

Course outline

This course addresses the emergence of new diseases and the re-emergence of diseases previously thought to be under control, as well as the effect of global climate change and the changing international security environment under the spectre of bioterrorism.

The course provides advanced training in the field of infectious diseases, with programs in Medical Microbiology, Tropical Infectious Diseases, Public and Environmental Health Microbiology. It is aimed at science based and medical professionals intending to work in medical clinics, hospital diagnostic laboratories, government health departments and international agencies.

Core units

First Semester

• COMM7403 Science Communication - Community Presentations
• MICR8829 Foundations of Infectious Diseases (12 points)
• MICR8830 Principles of Mycology and Parasitology
• PUBH8761 Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases

Second Semester

Medical Microbilogy Program

• MICR8832 Recent Advances in Medical Microbiology (12 points)
• MICR8833 Antimicrobial Agents

Tropical Infectious Diseases Program

• MICR8834 Tropical, Travel and Remote Area Infectious Diseases (12 points)
• MICR8835 Vectors of Infectious Diseases, and Vector Control

Public and Environmental health Microbiology Program

• MICR8836 Public and Environmental Health Microbiology (12 points)
• MICR8837 Infectious Diseases of Public and Environmental Health Importance

Admission requirements

• A Bachelor of Science in the biomedical, biological or related areas of science or an equivalent degree; or
• A Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) or equivalent qualification; or
• A Bachelor of Dental Science (BDSc) or equivalent qualification.
• Applicants with applied biomedical science degrees (such as medical technology, nursing and the like) are also considered for entry to the course.

Domestic students

All UWA coursework programs: English Language Competence

International students

All UWA coursework programs: English Language Competence

Course enquiries

Infectious diseases website
Gillian Walters, Administrative Officer
Telephone: +(61 8) 9346 2245