Master of Rehabilitation

Enhance your career in rehabilitation and health promotion with JCU’s Master of Rehabilitation. Advance your ability to design, manage, and evaluate rehabilitation plans for individuals and communities in culturally diverse populations. You will learn to develop solutions for complex issues in rehabilitation and develop the skills to make a difference in regional, rural, remote and Indigenous communities.

This Master of Rehabilitation degree is designed to maximise your professional expertise and extend your capacity in key areas of rehabilitation. You will choose from two streams — coursework or coursework and research — to build specialist knowledge, skills, and technical capability across a range of health contexts. In each stream, you will gain a broad understanding of rehabilitation and important topics including chronic conditions, evidence-based practice, and cultural practice.

The coursework stream will build your knowledge and technical understanding of areas including lifestyle medicine, health coaching and behaviour change, models of care, education for the health professional, advanced practice in a rural and remote context, rehabilitation for disability and palliative care.

The research stream incorporates two main subjects, with the first focusing on an extensive literature review and the second comprising the main portion of the research project. Your research project will investigate an issue or topic relevant to rehabilitation and the allied health sector. Undertaking this research project can open doors to a future PhD.

Tailor the Master of Rehabilitation to suit your interests, experience and career goals by choosing from one of four majors: General Major in Rehabilitation, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Speech Pathology.

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Grow your career in rehabilitation with the Master of Rehabilitation at JCU. Benefit from unique experiences in tropical, rural, remote, and regional areas and familiarity with Indigenous communities and their health.

JCU’s Master of Rehabilitation gives you the contemporary knowledge, skills and experience to update your clinical practice and expand your career prospects. You will gain advanced skills in your specialisation and valuable expertise in tropical, Indigenous, rural, and remote practice.

Graduates pursue careers in various areas including acute wards and rehabilitation settings with public and private health providers, aged care, private practice, policy development, or research. You could pursue your specialisation in roles such as clinician, case manager, or researcher. Additionally, you progress further to study a PhD.