Master of Rehabilitation

Graduates of the Master of Rehabilitation should be able to:

Demonstrate extended rehabilitation clinical knowledge and skill required in interprofessional rehabilitation settings
Demonstrate critical enquiry and evaluation to advance rehabilitation clinical knowledge and skill required in interprofessional rehabilitation settings;
Synthesise and evaluate complex clinical information, including impact of professional interventions and integration of evidence based rehabilitation practice to optimise consumer outcomes;
Apply critical enquiry and evidence based rehabilitation knowledge and skills to respond to challenges and opportunities that arise within broad interprofessional rehabilitation care settings and provide clinical leadership in the promotion of high quality, culturally safe, person centred and effective rehabilitation care provision that responds to emerging and unique needs;
Design and execute a research or similar capstone project advancing rehabilitation knowledge and/or person-centred practice.

Graduates will be able to apply theory and practice learned in a range of health provider settings including but not limited to:

Public Health Care provider in acute wards and rehabilitation settings;
Private Health Care provider in acute wards and rehabilitation settings;
Private Practice in the fields of aged and neurological rehabilitation;
Aged care Health services;
Transition care community rehabilitation and long term care settings;
State, Federal and local government in policy development or implementation;
Health Carer groups;
Health Care based research.
Roles may include:

Clinician;
Case worker;
Team Leader;
Consultant;
Researcher.

A Bachelor Degree from an accredited 3-year program in a Health Discipline or equivalent to enter the non-discipline pathway with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 4.6 on the ACU 7 point scale; or
A Bachelor Degree from an accredited 4-year program in Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy or Speech Pathology or equivalent to enter (Discipline) pathway, with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 4.6 on the ACU 7 point scale; or
ACU Faculty of Health Sciences Graduate Certificate or equivalent to enter the Non-discipline) pathway