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.

Completing further study beyond a Bachelor degree will enhance your chances of employment as well as advancement, as you will increase your knowledge in specific areas that interest you. Entry requires a bachelor degree or applied biomedical science degree.

Course outline

The course has been developed in response to the international need for advanced training in infectious diseases to better prepare medical scientists, medical professionals, the public sector and other groups. 

Course Director, Professor Geoff Shellam has a strong academic and research background within this field. Professor Barry Marshall is also a valued member of staff within the program.

Together, Professor Geoff Shellam and Professor Barry Marshall, as co-directors of the Marshall Centre for Infectious Diseases Research and Training, will bring a host of resources to the program. This close affiliation with the Marshall Centre will give students access to state of the art facilities and the Nobel Laureate himself.

Students have the opportunity to gain practical experience in Western Australia’s public diagnostic pathology laboratory, PathWest, through the integration of placements for research projects and practicums with coursework.

The course provides advanced training in the field of infectious diseases, with specialised streams in Medical Microbiology, Tropical Infectious Diseases, Public and Environmental Health Microbiology.

Core units

• MICR8829 Foundations of Infectious Diseases (12 points)
• PUBH8750 Epidemiology I (6 points)
  
• MICR8830 Principles of Mycology and Parasitology (6 points)
• MICR8831 Molecular and Cellular Microbiology (12 points)
• COMM7403 Science Communication - Community Presentations (6 points)
• SCIE2203 Bioinformatics (6 points)
• PUBH8761 Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases (6 points)

Specialised streams

Medical Microbiology stream

One unit from the following list:

• MICR8838 Research Project in Infectious Diseases (24 points), or
• MICR8839 Practicum in Infectious Diseases (24 points)

Plus both the following units:

• MICR8832 Recent Advances in Microbiology (12 points)
• MICR8833 Antimicrobiol Agents (6 points)

Tropical Infectious Diseases stream

One unit from the following list:

• MICR8838 Research Project in Infectious Diseases (24 points), or
• MICR8839 Practicum in Infectious Diseases (24 points)

Plus both the following units:

• MICR8834 Tropical, Travel and Remote Area Infectious Diseases (12 points)
• MICR8835 Vectors of Infectious Diseases, and Vector Control (6 points)

Public and Environmental Health Microbiology stream

One unit from the following list:

• MICR8838 Research Project in Infectious Diseases (24 points), or
• MICR8839 Practicum in Infectious Diseases (24 points)

Plus both the following units:

• MICR8836 Public and Environmental Health Microbiology (12 points)
• MICR8837 Infectious Diseases of Public Health and Environmental Health Importance (6 points)

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

Gillian Walters, Administrative Officer
Telephone: +(61 8) 9346 2245
Email: InfectiousDiseases@bcs.uwa.edu.au