EIT’s new Master of Health Science is attracting strong interest with international students, from as far afield as Kolkata in India, keen to enrol.
Delivered online, the degree is being offered for the first time this year. School of Health and Sport Science senior lecturer Patrick Lander reports a great response from counsellors, dieticians, graduates from other EIT programmes and international students.
“Many inquiries have come from people already in the workplace looking to add to postgraduate certificates and diplomas they have already achieved. However, we have equally had a number of enquirers looking to step into postgraduate study for the first time.”
Dr Lander says those who don’t have the appropriate postgraduate qualification are taking the opportunity to staircase to the Master of Health Science by enrolling first for EIT’s Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma in Health Science – programmes that can be studied part-time.
The Master of Health Science requires 18 months of full-time study or three years part-time.
Courses provide blended and online learning opportunities and, in some cases, clinical fieldwork. The programme is open to students nationwide and international students will be based on the EIT Hawke’s Bay campus in Napier.
The degree is tailored to meet the needs of managers and health practitioners working for district health boards, primary health organisations, the fitness industry and sports organisations as well as social workers, community care workers and allied health practitioners.
Courses are designed around knowledge and research relating to health disparities and the needs of populations, ethical, legal and political dimensions of health policy and
practice and interdisciplinary practice to improve health care.
Programme coordinator Clare Harvey recently received an award for her research work and has been made an associate professor at EIT.