Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology

Overview

The Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology aims to produce professional Exercise Physiologists who can utilise exercise to prevent and rehabilitate disease and injury in the broader community. Upon obtaining accreditation from Exercise and Sport Science Australia (ESSA), Accredited Exercise Physiologists are eligible for registration as an allied health professional with Medicare, WorkCover NSW and private health insurers.

Our Graduates are often employed in the public and private health sectors working as a part of a multi-disciplinary rehabilitation teams.

Many graduates work within private exercise physiology clinics across a broad range of rehabilitation areas, including (but not limited to) cardiac rehabilitation, diabetes management, falls prevention, chronic and complex disease management. Alternatively, graduates also work within work-related injury and rehabilitation sectors (WorkCover NSW), either as an allied health professional providing clinical services, or as a rehabilitation provider from a case management perspective.

Entry Requirements / Assumed Knowledge

A Bachelor degree in Exercise Science of at least three years duration from a recognised tertiary institution is required for entry. Applicants must also have acquired a minimum of 140 hours of supervised clinical placement with healthy populations prior to entry into the Masters.

Places in the Masters are limited and a minimum credit average across all completed undergraduate subjects is required to be considered competitive for entry.

Please note allied health degrees (medicine, physiotherapy, nursing, etc) do not meet the minimum requirements for entry into this course.

International students are required to have achieved an overall IELTS score of 6.5, with a minimum level of 6.0 in all bands of reading and writing, speaking and listening.

Course Requirements

The Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology requires the successful completion of 48 credit points of subjects in accordance with the table below.

This course is not available part-time.

Note that this degree has 360 hours of compulsory clinical placement which is completed in Spring Session as part of the Clinical Practicum subject. In order to complete this placement, students must comply with the legal requirements of the NSW Health Department. This requires all staff and students undertaking clinical placements to receive a criminal record clearance and vaccination record status check before employment or placement in any capacity in the NSW health system. For further information, refer to the Additional Information section.

Professional Recognition

Upon graduation from the Masters of Clinical Exercise Physiology, students may be eligible to individually apply for accreditation as an Exercise Physiologist with Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA; formerly Australian Association for Exercise and Sports Science (AAESS)).

Student Income Support

In 2007, the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) announced that it has made provisions to extend student income support (Austudy and Youth Allowance) to students undertaking professionally oriented masters programs.

The Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology has been approved by DEEWR as an eligible Masters programme for Student Income Support.

Students who have queries about their income support eligibility should contact Centrelink on 13 2490 for further information.

Further Information

Dr Herb Groeller
Course Coordinator
+61 2 4221 3461
herb_groeller@uow.edu.au