Overview
If you are interested in working with people and you would like to make a difference to the way primary care is delivered in the community, then this is the place for you!
General Practice and Primary Care Honours Program
2024 Honours Program Information sessions:
Attend our Round 2 information sessions to meet the Honours Coordination team and hear about Honours in the Department General Practice and Primary Care
Date: Tuesday 16 January (virtual)
Time: 10.00 - 11.00am
Location: Zoom (https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/83653691850?pwd=WnM4bHF4L051SnFtbnREa0l6K2FzQT09) / Password: 191515
Research projects:
All our Honours projects focus on primary care/general practice and are qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods rather than lab based. This means the research is conducted using existing datasets or by surveying or interviewing patients or clinicians about a topic within a primary care setting. 2024 Honours projects are available in the following research areas:
- Cancer in Primary Care,
- Children and Young People’s Health,
- Consumer Research,
- Data Driven Quality Improvement,
- Health Data Science for Medical Research
- Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance,
- Primary Care Mental Health,
- Sexual Abuse and Family Violence: SAFE.
Note – not all research areas have projects available in Round 2. Please click here to view the 2024 Round 2 Department General Practice and Primary Care Honours Projects list.
Course structure:
The Honours program involves two coursework subjects (25 points) and a Research Project (75 points).
| Subject code | Subject name | Semester | Points | Taught by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIOM40001 | Introduction to Biomedical Research | 1 | 12.5 | Faculty |
| GENP40002 | Introduction to Primary Care Research | 1 | 12.5 | Department of General Practice and Primary Care |
| GENP40000 | Primary Care Research Project (Part 1) | 1 | 25 | Department of General Practice and Primary Care |
| GENP40001 | Primary Care Research Project (Part 2) | 2 | 50 | Department of General Practice and Primary Care |
The department Coursework subject provides students with:
- the common building blocks needed for biomedical research; and
- an understanding of both processes and skills which are essential to the conduct of human research in the primary care setting.
The Research Project subject requires the students to undertake an original supervised project and provides the student with valuable research skills.
Contact
For further information about this Honours program please contact:
Ms Sam Parkin
Honours Program Coordinator (Administrative)
Department of General Practice and Primary Care
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
sparkin@unimelb.edu.au