Graduate Diploma of Rural Generalist Practice

Students can undertake a range of subjects that allow them to deliver rural and remote health services effectively and confidently in low resource settings. You will gain leadership, research and patient management skills in rural generalist professional practice to respond to diverse healthcare needs.

For entry to this course, Australian practitioners need to have achieved a health-related Bachelor degree and have at least two years’ professional experience in one of the following Allied Health practice fields: Nutrition/Dietetics, Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Psychology, Radiography, Social Work or Speech Pathology.

View the Handbook for a detailed overview of available subjects. The study planner also provides more information to assist in planning your enrolment in the Graduate Diploma of Rural Generalist Practice.

Inherent requirements

Inherent requirements are the identified abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours that must be demonstrated, during the learning experience, to successfully complete a course. These abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours preserve the academic integrity of the University’s learning, assessment, and accreditation processes, and where applicable, meet the standards of a profession.  For more information please review the inherent requirements for the Graduate Diploma of Rural Generalist Practice.

International students must attain an IELTS Academic with an average level of 7.5 or more, across the four components of listening, speaking, reading and writing; no score below level 7.0 in any of these components; and a score of 8.0 or more in the components of speaking and listening. Internationally schooled applicants may also be required to meet this requirement.

English competency requirements may also be satisfied through completion of one of the following:

• Bachelor degree or master degree from Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK or the USA, or
• Undergraduate degree taught in English from a South African University.

JCU’s Graduate Diploma of Rural Generalist Practice provides Allied Health professionals with a pathway for advancing their academic and clinical expertise in a wide range of community and clinical settings.

JCU Graduate Diploma of Rural Generalist Practice graduates are equipped with specialist, sought-after skills that allow them to work effectively in rural and remote communities.

You could find employment in the allied health industry, particularly in rural, remote and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Graduates advance their careers as nutritionists/dieticians, occupational therapists, pharmacists, physiotherapists, podiatrists, psychologists, radiographers, social workers or speech pathologists.