Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology
Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology
This course will expand your specialist knowledge and skills in clinical exercise physiology for a range of target pathologies and population groups. You’ll gain the expertise to assess, prescribe, deliver and adapt exercise interventions to guide and optimise health and function for people with chronic medical conditions, injuries and disabilities….
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will expand your specialist knowledge and skills in clinical exercise physiology for a range of target pathologies and population groups.
You’ll gain the expertise to assess, prescribe, deliver and adapt exercise interventions to guide and optimise health and function for people with chronic medical conditions, injuries and disabilities. These include cardiovascular, respiratory, chronic renal, metabolic and neurological conditions; and musculoskeletal pain, mental health and cancer.
This course offers blended learning and throughout the course you’ll learn to work with clients through client-centred care and evidence-based approaches, to provide optimal care that encompasses the whole person (including comorbidities).
You’ll have fully supported clinical practicum opportunities, including the option of a clinical placement in Cambodia, and beneficial interprofessional education with students in other Curtin allied health courses.
In addition to gaining advanced theoretical knowledge, you’ll have the opportunity to develop valuable research skills to confidently take you into the workforce or to pursue research in a specialist area.
How this course will make you industry ready
This is a practical course featuring content informed by industry, including the standards of Exercise & Sports Science Australia (ESSA).
All units are taught by specialist academics and industry experts who have clinical experience in their particular area, giving you direct insights into industry practice.
You’ll have opportunities to learn from lived-experience educators and guest speakers.
You’ll gain hands-on experience working with a range of accredited exercise physiologists in clinical and community settings.
Our Clinical Exercise Physiology Practicum skills units equip you with several professional practice certifications.
What jobs can the Clinical Exercise Physiology lead to?
Careers
Exercise physiologist (accredited)
Exercise rehabilitation provider
Holistic health case manager
Industries
Public and private hospitals and healthcare
Fitness and wellbeing
What you’ll learn
Apply clinical exercise physiology principles and approaches in the treatment and management of persons at high risk of developing, or with existing chronic and complex clinical presentations drawing upon current research to guide clinical decision making
Incorporate creativity and initiative to formulate, implement and critically evaluate effective exercise physiology practice
Source and synthesise complex information and evidence using a range of technologies; apply professional and independent judgement to exercise physiology practice
Exemplify highly developed communication and technical skills, both written and verbal, to effectively design, apply and justify professional practice with clients, health professionals and stakeholders
Integrate appropriate technologies to create, amend and validate exercise interventions and professional decisions based on scientific evidence and clinical reasoning
Apply a commitment to professional and personal development in the field of clinical exercise through educational engagement and on-going learning, self-evaluation of practice, and advocacy for exercise physiology
Understand and promote a global health care perspective in regards to exercise physiology practice
Support and respect individual human rights and cultural diversity in regards to exercise physiology services within a variety of settings
Independently and through inter-professional working relationships, apply professional and ethical skills and behaviour across a range of professional settings
REQUIREMENTS
An undergraduate degree in Exercise and Sport science or equivalent.
Certificate in Advanced English (CAE): Grade C; and Pearson Test of English Academic: 72. IELTS Academic (International English Language Testing System): Writing, Speaking, Reading, and Listening: 7.0; Overall band score: 7.0; TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language): 79 Overall; Reading 13 Listening 13 Speaking 18 Writing 21.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Curtin University is Western Australia’s largest and most culturally diverse university with Australia’s third largest international student population. Around 60,000 students from more than 130 countries study a Curtin degree, at locations including Perth, Margaret River, Kalgoorlie, Sydney, Malaysia and Singapore. Our cultural diversity adds a rich and valuable dimension to the campus atmosphere, preparing all graduates to live and work effectively in an increasingly global environment. We offer a range of industry-aligned undergraduate and postgraduate courses in business, humanities, health, engineering and related sciences. We also have a long-standing focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education and culture, supported by our Centre for Aboriginal Studies.Curtin is widely recognised for its practical research that is focused on solving timely, real-world problems. In recent years our research activity has grown significantly, driving our rapid rise up the international university rankings.As a university that never settles, we will continue to develop existing partnerships and establish new ones in areas relevant to our research and teaching.
