Diabetes Care, Education & Management PGDip

Postgraduate

In Dundee

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Dundee (Scotland)

The burden of long term non-communicable disease (NCD) is a challenge facing all health care organizations at an International level. The effect of this challenge is not just on increasing health care costs and an intolerable workload for health care professionals but a recognition that the current health care system needs to change fundamentally in order to cope with future demands. The Diabetes Care and Education programme has been created by the University of Dundee to aid healthcare organisations who wish to equip their workforce with the clinical knowledge, leadership and educational skills required to meet this challenge and develop a multi-disciplinary approach to creating transformational change appropriate to the healthcare system in their country.

Dundee has an international reputation for diabetes research, education and informatics developments. With the global growing prevalence of diabetes there is an increasing need for healthcare professionals to upskill in diabetes care and understand how to organise healthcare for the efficient management of chronic diseases.

The course has been designed to allow students to remain in their jobs while studying and for their studies to be able to have an immediate impact in their work environment.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Dundee (Dundee City)
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Fulton Building, DD1 4HN

Start date

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About this course

provide a comprehensive programme of diabetes education for health care professionals
develop competence in the diagnosis, treatment, and decision-making in the care of persons with diabetes
establish students with a basic grounding in educational/ behaviour change theory with application to patient and professional education
develop leadership and evaluation skills in the organisation and delivery of care in both primary care and hospitals to empower service delivery improvement
establish a stimulating environment for research, teaching and learning about diabetes
encourage a culture for training of health care professionals by the development of a network of experienced clinical teachers.
Allow health care professionals to enhance their knowledge and skills while remaining in work
bring immediate benefits into the workplace through the application of their learning in their work-place based projects
be culturally sensitive

We would envisage this course/qualification being of interest to healthcare organisations who wish their healthcare professionals (e.g. doctors, nurses, pharmacists, nurse educators, managers etc) to enhance their skills across a range of disciplines required for the management and care of diabetes and other chronic diseases.

This qualification is NOT equivalent to accreditation onto the diabetes medical specialist register e.g. allowing the individual to operate as a diabetes consultant.

A collaboration must have been established between the University of Dundee and a healthcare organisation within the applicant's country.
Applicants should have:
Attended a university, or other institution approved by the Faculty Board.
Obtained a first degree in a healthcare discipline or other equivalent qualification acceptable to the Programme Director

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Subjects

  • Leadership
  • Care Education
  • Healthcare
  • Teaching
  • Diabetes
  • Education Management
  • Simulation
  • International
  • Diabetes Care
  • Science of Diabetes

Course programme

Core Modules

  • Modern Diabetes Care
  • Science of Diabetes
  • High Performance Organisation

Clinical Modules

  • Advanced Diabetes Nutrition
  • Advanced Diabetes Practice
  • Diabetes in the Young
  • Management of CV Risk in Diabetes
  • Safety in Clinical Communication
  • Self-Management of Diabetes: person centred, enabling approaches to clinical practice

Education Modules

  • Clinical Skills and Simulation for Education and Practice
  • Developing Safe Team Working Using Simulation
  • Facilitation
  • Leadership
  • Reflective Professional Practice
  • Self-Management of Diabetes: person centred, enabling approaches to clinical practice
  • Training the Trainers

Organisational modules

  • Facilitation
  • Leadership
  • High Performance Organisation
  • Patient Safety & Quality Improvement in Diabetes
  • Reflective Professional Practice
  • Managing Collaboration in Healthcare

Research

  • Research Methods
  • Health Informatics Foundations
  • MSc Diabetes Care and Education Dissertation
How you will be taught

The teaching approach is one of blended learning with face to face teaching (lectures, group work, case discussions, workshops, simulation exercises, quizzes) blended with online activities, case based studies and workplace assessment. Much of the later work can be completed flexibly in the student's own free time, and has been designed around the needs of students who are also working full time.

Each module has the following structure:

  • Week 1 : introduction to the module and activities to prepare for face to face teaching through the virtual learning environment (VLE).
  • Week 2 : face to face teaching- interactive teaching through workshops, small group activities, case discussions etc.
  • Week 3: finalise work-place based project proposal with module leads
  • Weeks 4 – 9: Students undertake projects; recording progress and observations in a personal reflective journal. Interaction with module leads and course activities through the VLE.
  • Weeks 9 – 11: Writing up first drafts of Project Report (Assignment 1) and Reflective Essay (Assignment 2) and receiving tutor feedback.
  • Week 12: Assessment deadline for the submission for final Project Report (Assignment 1) and Reflective Essay (Assignment 2).

Students are expected to undertake approximately 12 hours of work per week, either as self-directed study or undertaking specific activities associated with the course.

There are 3 semesters per year. In each semester the student completes one module from the modules available.

How you will be assessed

All 20 credit modules are assessed on Coursework. To complete each module and to progress to the next, students are required to:

  • Attend the face-to-face teaching.
  • Complete the workplace-based assignment which requires participants to apply educational principles to their own situation and reflect on the result.

Diabetes Care, Education & Management PGDip

Price on request