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Professional Healthcare Practice PG Diploma

Postgraduate

In Bradford

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Bradford

  • Duration

    2 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

The Professional Healthcare Practice programme at the University of Bradford offers students the opportunity to apply knowledge to a range of clinical and professional situations through reflection and practice experience, supported by an experienced mentor.
It develops skills designed to meet the challenges of delivering and advancing quality healthcare within a global context.
Learning and teaching is designed to equip students with skills in using a range of information, data, tools and techniques to improve the quality of patient care and health outcomes as well as demonstrate impact and value. There is a focus on patient safety, risk assessment and risk management within a clinical governance context.
The programme is designed to:
Provide a flexible educational framework that is vocationally relevant, which meets your professional development needs, as well as the organisational needs of employers.
Provide opportunities for inter-professional teaching and learning to share the knowledge, skills and experience common to a range of different health and social care disciplines.
Provide a framework within which the curriculum, where required, meets the regulatory needs of professional bodies such as the NMC, GPhC and HCPC and recognised National benchmarks
Stimulate you to become a self-directed learner who is motivated to sustain and advance your own continuous professional learning
Develop your clinical skills, knowledge and critical understanding to an advanced level, applicable to your own field of practice
Further develop your cognitive and practical skills to undertake data synthesis, complex problem solving and risk assessment
Prepare you to become an autonomous practitioner, to work in advanced and specialist roles with high levels of accountability
Develop you as a practitioner who will innovate, promote evidence informed practice and improve service user outcomes

Facilities

Location

Start date

Bradford (West Yorkshire)
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Richmond Road, BD7 1DP

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

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2018

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Subjects

  • Public Health
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk
  • Teaching
  • Quality
  • University
  • Public
  • Healthcare
  • IT risk
  • Quality Training

Course programme

The modules for this course can be found in the latest programme specification.


Whilst following this programme of study, you will engage with learning through a range of teaching methods. These methods will be dependent on modules studied, however student-centred approaches to learning are a feature of the modules and you will be expected to take responsibility for your learning as you develop your academic skills.

There are a number of approaches to the manner in which modules are delivered and these include block attendance, study day attendance, distance learning and blended learning. When devising your study plan with your academic advisor, you will be informed regarding which delivery methods are utilised for which module.

The aims of the teaching and learning strategies have been designed so that you will be given the opportunity to develop theoretical understanding, research informed knowledge and critical thinking to develop a range of skills appropriate to your professional field, your organisation and workplace setting. You will also develop your skills and knowledge of research and application to your practice area.

Your course of study will expose you to a range of different teaching, learning and assessment strategies required to achieve the learning outcomes.

The teaching approaches that are used across the Faculty of Health Studies are informed by the University and Faculty core values which are for teaching and learning to be: Research informed, Reflective, Adaptable, Inclusive, Supportive, Ethical and Sustainable. You may experience these across your choice of modules in order to meet both the aims of the programme and your learning outcomes which may include any number of the following:

  • Research informed lectures: to a group of students where information will be presented and discussed
  • Facilitated seminars and group discussion: where learning will be through the interpretation and critical application of information and group learning
  • Tutorial: where small group number of students reflect and discuss issues related to their learning
  • Work-based learning: where learning is directed at consolidating skills in relation to theory and best practice, enabling students to advance their competence in their field of practice
  • Use of Web based virtual learning environments: such as Blackboard, to access information and to interact with other students undertaking group work or developing wikis
  • Distance learning packages where clearly defined directed study and tasks are available for the student to undertake
  • Directed reading: where set reading may be recommended
  • Self-Directed learning: Where student are expected to develop their own learning by identifying areas of interest and areas in which knowledge needs to be developed
  • Undertaking a work based project or a research module which is shaped by your own self-directed learning needs and the learning outcomes at MSc level

You will be expected to develop an autonomous learning style and become self-directed as a learner.

Your learning will be assessed against the learning outcomes and programme aims through the use of a range of different assessment techniques which may include one or more of the following approaches:

  • Written essay
  • A Reflective Case study
  • The development of a reflective portfolio
  • Completion of set number of competencies
  • Completion of a set number of clinical contact
  • Practical examination
  • Computer based Multiple Choice Question examination
  • Computer based open book examination
  • Seminar Presentation
  • Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE)
  • Written project report
  • Completion of a Dissertation
  • Research paper/executive summary

Professional Healthcare Practice PG Diploma

Price on request