The discipline of general practice involves comprehensive, continuing, community-based medical care of individuals and families for a defined practice population. There is an emphasis on prevention of disease and the earliest possible identification and intervention. The diploma provides an opportunity to address these issues, while still leaving wide choice of subject content, for example including travel and migrant medicine, rural hospital practice, sexual health, and palliative care.

The Postgraduate Diploma in Travel Medicine (PGDipTravMed) builds on the PGCertTravMed. It adds to the foundations of travel medicine by exploring tropical infectious diseases in greater depth. Elective papers cover wilderness and expedition medicine and migrant and refugee health. As such, the diploma is an advanced nationally-recognised qualification for health professionals who practise in the field of travel medicine.

The Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Medicine (PGDipOccMed) is a two-year, part-time, distance-taught program for international students. The diploma is a stand-alone qualification used as a qualifying possible point for admission to Fellowship of Occupational Medicine training for specialist training in many countries around the world.

The Postgraduate Certificate in General Practice (PGCertGP) is offered to medical practitioners who require certification of participation and satisfactory completion of approved postgraduate papers.

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine educates and trains students to become osteopathic physicians that provide research-driven quality care to the Northwest communities, particularly in rural and medically underserved populations.

The optometry program goals are to graduate optometrists who are knowledgeable, clinically competent, professional, and ethical.

Enrolling in Blue Cliff College’s Clinical Medical Assistant school could be your first step to a new career in the healthcare sector. As a student in our clinical medical assistant classes, you will have the opportunity to be introduced to a wide range of duties while training in a relatively short amount of time!

Basic research constitutes an essential axis in medical research; this research requires a certain mastery of a large number of tools essential to any responsible and thoughtful research, such as ethics, biostatistics and bibliographic research.