MSc Clinical Medicine (Speciality Medicine)

Module: 7HW012

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Distance Learning

The aim of this module is to provide you with depth knowledge of the research process and to acquire practical skills for the design and conduct of research studies, including data collection and analysis. You will plan a research study to be carried out independently, in fulfilment of the requirements of the Master's Dissertation. You will write a research plan in preparation for the development of the research proposal needed in your application for ethical approval of your study. You will gain a critical, depth knowledge of the methodologies and research methods you will need in order to write Chapter 3 (Methodology and Methods) of your Master's Dissertation.

Module: 7WB005

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The module aims to enable students working or planning to work in the health, social care arenas to: - Develop advanced academic writing and study skills for successful postgraduate study and advanced professional development. - Raise your awareness of your knowledge skills and abilities, their acquisition and their relevance within Health and Social care employment. - Develop an electronic personal development plan that will form the basis of your programme at Masters level or your career plan. Your personal development plan will need to outline a complete, comprehensive and cohesive programme of study that relates to your current and future professional development goals or proposed career. This programme may be work based or taught or a combination of both. You will need to be in current employment to undertake work based modules. Your personal development plan may be added to over the duration of your course and made into a professional portfolio of academic work and other materials. - Create a professional curriculum vitae for inclusion in your professional development plan / portfolio. - Develop your reflective practice skills and ensure that your study is focussed and the most appropriate development plan for your current and/or future employment goals. For work based route students it is a tripartite agreed programme between yourself, your employer and the University. Students may not study any further work based units, (7WB001, 002, 003 and 004) until they have achieved a pass grade for this module.

Module: 7HW015

Credits: 60

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module is the independent study element of your Masters Degree. You will design and implement an original research project. Your taught modules support the work in this module with theoretical frameworks, research methodologies and applications for your chosen discipline. The module is designed to be studied after or in conjunction with a research skills module where your research proposal is planned and assessed.

Module: 7HW025

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module aims to facilitate creativity, innovation and improvement within the health and care setting to improve working practices and the quality of the service delivered. As part of the service improvement process you will apply relevant theories and models, methods and tools and manage data using accepted statistical process control methods. At the end of the module you will prepare a final report summary to disseminate your findings to others.

Module: 7HW068

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module is a flexible, practice focused entity that is suitable for any health and care professional who wishes to gain accreditation for academic study and enhanced practice within their specialist field. The module structure is blended, with personal tutor support for what is essentially an individualised programme of experiential and work place learning. You will work with a personal tutor to apply new knowledge and insight to your practice through the production of original and academic evidence of your personal learning.

Module: 7HW069

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module is a flexible, practice focused entity that is suitable for any healthcare professional who wishes to gain accreditation for academic study and advanced practice within their specialist field. The module structure is blended, with personal tutor support and facilitation for what is essentially an individualised programme of experiential and work place learning. You will work with a personal tutor to negotiate and agree a formal learning plan designed to advance your knowledge and apply new knowledge to your existing skillsets within your current sphere of practice. In addition, you will provide original and academic evidence of your experiential learning and present this for assessment by means of an electronic portfolio. If you are in an employed situation, your employer may be involved in the agreement of the negotiated learning plan; for those in private practice, assurance will be needed that the advanced skillsets are within your range and ability and in accordance with your governing body guidelines and code of practice.

Module: 7HW109

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Optional

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

Current initiatives within the National Health Service (NHS) have been aimed at modernisation with clinical governance being a keystone of these changes. Increasingly healthcare professionals are expected only to use methods that have been proven to be effective and to monitor the quality of care provided. This module aims to prepare you for the task of improving the quality of patient care through the exploration of the seven pillars of clinical governance and patient safety initiatives. You will draw upon the current literature to critically explore best practice and examine your own development needs in this field. This module addresses the need for health and social care professionals to engage more effectively with the factors that fundamentally affect the provision of safe, effective and compassionate healthcare for patients.

Module: 7HR013

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Optional

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module explores the nature of teaching and learning in the clinical environment. It focuses upon the ways in which the medical teacher-practitioner may enable learning through a range of methodologies. It also explores the rationale and methods by which clinical learning is assessed across a range of metrics, critically evaluating the effectiveness of these instruments. Upon completion of this module, you will be able to identify factors which facilitate and influence learning, including learning theories, intervention planning, design, delivery, implementation, assessment and evaluation. You will also examine your current procedures and processes for facilitating learning within the clinical context and critically reflect on these practices. You will reflect on your perceptions of your experiences as planners and assessors of clinical learning, drawing on the contributions of adult learning theories in shaping these practices.

Module: 7HR014

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Optional

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

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People development in all sectors, but particularly within health and social care, is a critically important function. Its central contribution to ensuring a competent, knowledgeable and skilled workforce, is recognised and acknowledged to be a significant lever in delivering outcomes in the new realities of health and social care, for organisations, teams and individuals. In recent years Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and Government initiatives (Our Health, Our Care, Our Say 2006, Commissioning Framework – Health and Well Being 2007, the move to GP Commissioning Consortia, the Modernising Medical Careers agenda, and the Comprehensive Spending Review 2010, etc), aligned with proposed reform, has identified and reinforced the need for effective health and social care leadership, coupled with appropriate and timely people development strategies. Government review and reform of the sector, drivers for clinical excellence whilst delivering efficiency improvements, commissioning of services, increased demand and heightened expectations from all stakeholders, require new ways of working and innovation in developing people. The contribution of learning and people development to both formulating and achieving organisational objectives, forms a core rationale and component of this module