Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (subject to Approval) – (M.Sc.)

Contents

The course includes core modules and compulsory or optional modules specific to each pathway.

* All students take the following core modules:
* Research Methods
* Inter-Professional Working
* Evidence-Based Practice
* Dissertation.
* You then take the modules specific to your chosen pathway.

Supportive and Palliative Care

Advanced Communication Skills

* Concepts of Supportive and Palliative Care
* Ethical Issues in Supportive and Palliative Care
* Psychosocial Care and Bereavement
* Symptom Management

Minimally Invasive Surgery

* Minimally Invasive Surgery 1: Principles and Practices
* Minimally Invasive Surgery 2: Biliary and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery
* Minimally Invasive Surgery 3: Hernia and Colorectal
* Minimally Invasive Surgery 4: Training Methods Speciality and Procedures

Surgical Practice

* Critical Care
* Critical Education, Learning, Teaching and Supervision
* Emergency Surgery
* Ethics and Law in Clinical Practice
* Health Informatics: Information Management and Systems

Applied Dental Professional Practice

* Advancing Dental Professional Practice
* Dentistry in a Contemporary Context
* Developing Dental Practice Through Mentorship and Coaching
* Professional Standard Setting for Dental Professionals

Assessment
The pathways within the programme include a variety of learning activities depending on the modules studied. These include small group work, seminars, one-to-one tutorials, workshops, practical/clinical session and distance learning through the use of the University's Moodle system. Typically, in the final stage of the programme, you will be expected to complete a dissertation of between 12-15,000 words.