Key Features
Aligned with NHS career framework
Part Time
Delivered by experienced healthcare professionals
Designed for practitioners
Course Overview
This course has been designed to meet the needs of experienced practitioners such as nurses, paramedics, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and radiographers.
The short course is designed to develop proficiency in the skills of assessment, treatment, and management of minor injuries, giving practitioners an advanced knowledge base, communication skills, and safe clinical examination abilities. By completing this course, students will be equipped to make confident, autonomous, effective, and evidence-based patient care decisions.
How You Study
This course is delivered through blended learning methods, with the core content delivery being a combination of seminars and practical, skills-based workshops.
As part of this course, you will also be expected to contextualise your studies to your own service area through independently preparing for taught sessions with self-directed learning.
You will also be able to access online resources through the University's Virtual Learning Environment.
How you are assessed
Assessment for this course comes in two parts:
Part A: Direct observation of clinical skills in practice which is verified and assessed by appropriately experienced and competent medical practitioners and/or healthcare professionals in the student's own professional service area through a competence based portfolio.
Part B: Observed Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs). Students will be expected to respond appropriately in a series of mock clinical situations. You will be asked to systematically assess, manage, and escalate your findings within the context of your own personal and professional scope of practice and using best evidence to support your clinical decision-making and rationale.
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