Planning and Developing Health Care – (Grad.Cert.)

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The programme forms part of our Post Graduate Framework for Health Professions, which offers a wide range of accredited short courses and modules focused around patient centred care and evidence based practice.

Full time Students complete the programme in 5 months.

Part time students may take one to three years - undertaking modules at a pace to suit their busy lives.

Students are required to complete two core modules:-

* Improving evidence based health care
* Business planning in the clinical setting

Learning environment
The modules are studied through a variety of activities including keynote lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical sessions, workshops, laboratory sessions, web-based learning. Self direction is encouraged from the beginning and develops throughout the modules.

The modules use:-

* Presentations, which encourage students to communicate their novel ideas, make interpretations and develop critical awareness with their peers from across the disciplines
* Case studies which encourage the students to review and evaluate their own practice;
* Practical and laboratory sessions which develop new skills for management and evaluation of practice.

Assessment
This Masters level programme has been developed in accordance with underlying principles currently held at the forefront of the professional and academic disciplines. Students are asked to show originality in the application of knowledge and understanding of how the boundaries of knowledge are advanced through practice.

Assessment includes:-

* Written assignments: that present critical evidence based accounts of service delivery and business planning.
* Presentations: which give an evidence-based overview of the current thinking and literature relating to the management of a particular client group within students’ chosen specialist area.