Postgraduate studies

Our department offers a wide range of support to students wishing to pursue postgraduate studies.

We offer postgraduate teaching in the following programmes:

  • Diploma in Paediatrics
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Paediatrics
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Paediatrics
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences in Youth Health
  • Master of Health Sciences (specialising in Paediatrics)
  • Master of Health Sciences (specialising in Nutrition and Dietetics)
  • Master of Paediatrics
  • Master of Public Health
  • Master of Nursing

Postgraduate courses

FRACP Training Programme

In addition to postgraduate courses, our department also runs an FRACP training programme in Paediatrics for Part 1 FRACP. This programme is to help paediatric basic trainees in Australia and New Zealand sitting for the written component of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians examination. Our aim is to provide topical and relevant sessions of high quality by experienced specialist clinicians. The programme is updated yearly to deliver information on the latest guidelines and involves a mixture of topic reviews and practice exams.

FRACP Weekly Teaching Programme

This programme runs from Thursday, 6 June 2024, to Thursday, 30 January 2025. We offer 60 one-hour weekly interactive lectures in person or via Zoom, and lecture recordings and slides are available on our teaching website. A large number of MCQ practice exams are available in this programme. These are specifically aimed at providing a framework of the knowledge necessary for passing the Part 1 Paediatrics Written Examination.

Registration for the 2024 FRACP Weekly Teaching Programme opens in April. For Australia-based trainees, please click here for more information and registration.

For NZ-based trainees, please talk to your DPE about participating in this teaching programme first and email the Programme Coordinator at fracpadmin@auckland.ac.nz to register. Please include your name, your current appointment, the hospital and DHBs where you will be employed from June 2024 to February 2025 and a statement of your intention to sit the FRACP written examination in February 2025.

FRACP Intensive Two-Week Course

This course will run from 17 November (Sunday) to 29 November (Friday) 2024. Registration is now open for New Zealand-based trainees by contacting the FRACP Training Programme Coordinator. Please talk to your DPE about participating in this course first.

For Australia-based trainees, please send your expression of interest to the Programme Coordinator, including your full name and contact details, to receive more information when it becomes available. Registrations will open in July 2024.

This course will be offered in a hybrid format this year, where we are accepting attendees in-person and online via Zoom. Please note that there are limited places for the in-person option. Everyone in the course will have access to the teaching website where the lecture recordings are posted.

If you are interested in this course and have had an unsuccessful exam result before, please contact the Programme Coordinator for further discussion.

Study Options for October Exam

We are offering study options for those who have their examination in October 2024. You can choose to access the lecture recordings and slides from last year’s Weekly Teaching Programme or Intensive Two Week Course, or both at a discounted rate.

For more information and registration, click here for New Zealand-based trainees and here for Australia-based trainees.

Your username to access the teaching website will be created within a few days of registration.

Course Contact

Foundations in Clinical Research and Critical Evaluation

This course will be delivered in six two-hour sessions, over two days. The course is in-person only, but an online option will be made available in the future. Formal presentations will be interspersed with case studies and short exercises. Course participants will have opportunity to ask questions and seek clarification during each session, and also provide feedback at the end of the course. Each session will end with review questions for formative self-assessment.

This course will cover six sessions.

  • Session 1: Key concepts in clinical research
  • Session 2: Study designs
  • Session 3: Handling and presentation of data
  • Session 4: Statistical tests and procedures
  • Session 5: Estimation and confidence (in medical statistics)
  • Session 6: Interpretation of research findings and drawing clinical conclusions

This course is suitable for:

  • RACP Advanced Trainees, as well as Trainees in other disciplines (to enable them to successfully meet the research project requirements of their advanced training)
  • Hospital medical, nursing and allied health staff
  • Research staff and students
  • Anyone entering clinical research or seeking to increase their clinical research expertise

Upcoming Offerings

  • Dates and Times: Thursday, 11 July 2024 and Friday, 12 July 2024 (Times: TBC)

Course Contact

For more information, or to register please view the online form below