This course of study leads to a Masters by Research degree, with the students drawn from qualified medical practitioners, surgeons in training and fellowship-trained surgeons. The program has a primary function in providing doctors with a structured training and experience in independent research, specifically in the surgical specialty. It also fulfils a secondary function in providing discipline-specific training for doctors with aspirations in surgery, and provides an option for students to gain some skills in clinical leadership, for future leadership roles in surgery and broader medicine. Research training and clinical leadership training will be carried out at the Waurn Ponds campus, with heavy utilization of Cloud resources to support the teaching. Research activity, although coordinated from the Waurn Ponds campus, will mainly be carried out at the student’s place of work, although the School of Medicine’s Anatomy Laboratory will also be utilized where the Clinical Anatomy Investigation project involves cadaveric inspection or dissection. Primary supervision will be shared by academics within the School and other experts local to the workplace.

Through completion of the Master of Surgical Research it is expected that medical graduates, surgeons in training and qualified surgeons will:

• Gain an understanding of research techniques relevant to surgery;
• Produce high quality written work, suitable for publication in scientific journals, and present this orally to a high standard;
• Gain the skills needed to critically evaluate their own, and therefore other’s, work;
• Demonstrate their ability to apply research techniques in surgery and to lead research work; and
• Develop, or consolidate, an advanced knowledge of human anatomy, as relevant to their discipline.

To complete the Master of Surgical Research students must attain 16 credit points, which comprise 15 credit points of core units and 1 credit point of electives, constituting either additional research on the project or a clinical leadership elective unit.

In the event of the award of credit toward the course, at least two thirds of the remaining credit points must comprise HME8XX Clinical Anatomy Investigation and/or HME8XX Research Project in Surgery core units.

Plus one Elective Unit (1 credit point)

The course design has a primary function in providing doctors with a structured training and experience in independent research, specifically in the surgical specialties. It has a secondary function in providing discipline-specific research training for doctors who are seeking to enter surgical training programs, and provides an option for student to gain some skills in clinical leadership, for future leadership roles in surgery and broader medicine. Undertaking the course also helps students to develop future professional and research networks, both within Deakin and with Deakin’s partner institutes.

Course learning outcomes

Deakin's graduate learning outcomes describe the knowledge and capabilities graduates can demonstrate at the completion of their course. These outcomes mean that regardless of the Deakin course you undertake, you can rest assured your degree will teach you the skills and professional attributes that employers value. They'll set you up to learn and work effectively in the future.

Bachelor degree in medicine (or equivalent) AND current registration (or capacity to obtain registration prior to commencing study) to practice medicine in the jurisdiction of study (e.g. reg

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