Postgraduate studies

We offer postgraduate teaching in the following programmes:

• 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
  

• PAEDS 708 : Population Youth Health
• PAEDS 712 : Youth Health Clinical Skills
• PAEDS 714 : Emergency Paediatrics
• PAEDS 719 : Health, Education and Youth Development
  
• PAEDS 721 : Clinical Care of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer
• PAEDS 705 : Neonate and Infant Health
• PAEDS 706B : Paediatric Care (Toddler-Adolescent)

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.

View Course Flyer for NZ-based Trainees

For Australia-based trainees, registration opens on Monday, 1 July 9 am NZ
time and closes on Sunday, 14 July 6 pm NZ time. Registrations will only be
accepted via the online form. For more information, please refer to the course
flyer.

View Course Flyer for AU-based Trainees 

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 until the Clinical Exam 2025, where the lecture recordings are posted.

If you are interested in this course and have had an unsuccessful exam result before, please get in touch with 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

• FRACP Training Programme Coordinator: Arum Jung, fracpadmin@auckland.ac.nz
• FRACP Teaching Website: www.fracpteaching.com

The short course will be delivered in 11 sessions lasting approximately one hour each, over two days. Formal presentations will be interspersed with case studies and practical 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. Some sessions will end with review questions for formative self-assessment.

This course will cover:

• Session 1: Planning a clinical research study
• Session 2: Study designs
• Session 3: Statistical concepts 1
• Session 4: Statistical concepts 2
• Session 5: Data management
• Session 6: Analysis 1
• Session 7: Analysis 2
• Session 8: Sample size and power
• Session 9: Study protocol and statistical analysis plan
• Session 10: Presenting results
• Session 11: Writing manuscripts and formulating conclusions

There are two registration options: in-person or online. Access to the online option (lecture recordings) will commence approximately one month after the in-person course dates below. In-person attendance includes access to online content as per the dates below.

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

Course Directors

• Associate Professor Chris McKinlay
• Dr Carol Chelimo

Course Contact

• FRACP Training Programme Coordinator: Arum Jung, fracpadmin@auckland.ac.nz

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