Operating Department Practice with foundation year

Operating Department Practice (ODP) is an exciting and rewarding career where you work within the perioperative theatre environment caring for patients undergoing surgery.

Our degree with foundation year could be the stepping stone you need to achieve your goals. The foundation year aims to prepare you for degree-level study and is a great way to build the confidence, skills and knowledge needed to succeed on your degree course. The foundation year of this Coventry University degree will be delivered from our CU Coventry campus. Course delivery from year one of the degree onwards will be from our Coventry University campus.

Operating Department Practitioners (ODPs) play a crucial and unique role in patient care. They are responsible for a wide spectrum of tasks essential for the smooth running of perioperative environments. As an ODP you may prepare and maintain operating theatres, ensure the availability of equipment and drugs, manage patient safety and support patients' emotional and physical needs throughout their surgical journey, from pre-anaesthesia to post-anaesthetic care in recovery. Staying calm in pressured environments, ensuring safety and ensuring everyone has a voice to speak up when needed are all vital skills you’ll be developing on the course.

Foundation Year
The foundation year course helps you develop the necessary skills for degree-level study. Explore everything from anatomy and physiology to public health, disease treatment, and professional practice, giving you a solid understanding of the subject before you progress.

Degree

• Leads to eligibility to apply for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) for registration as an ODP (please see Accreditation section for more information).

• You will learn through simulated activities such as role play and clinical skills development. Facilities replicate those found in hospitals, including a mock operating theatre and scrub room, mock ward setting, high dependency bays, and utilising high-tech manikins which respond to the treatment provided.

• Learn to collaborate and thrive as an ODP across and within multidisciplinary teams to coordinate safe, evidenced-based care delivery.

• Practice placements sourced for you by the university, providing you with opportunities to develop clinical skills and become a safe, confident and competent practitioner.

• Study one module at a time, with five weeks of learning followed by one week of assessment per module.

• All eligible learners on this course can apply for a minimum payment from the government of £5,000 per year. You can apply for additional payments if you incur childcare costs.

Why you should study this course
Foundation Year

• Supports you to gain the academic skills required for degree-level study.

• Provides a grounding in key areas of anatomy, physiology, health and wellbeing.

Degree

• The role of ODPs is dynamic and varied. Increasingly, ODPs are also adapting their knowledge and skills to work in non-traditional acute settings like emergency departments, intensive care, interventional radiology, cardiac catheterisation, MRI, CT scanning and endoscopy units.

• Teaching and learning are supported by highly trained, clinically current and experienced staff, clinical partners, service users, fellow ODP students and those from other health courses across the school.

• We focus on your future employability, offering you insight into roles in areas such as surgical first assistance, critical care, leadership and management.

Gain the skills and experience to transform lives, communities and the future of healthcare delivery. We aim to empower you to become a stand-out healthcare professional, capable, competent and confident in your field and role within the wider healthcare team.

Please visit our website for the most up-to-date information.

Course Modules

Foundation Year
Explore everything from anatomy and physiology to public health, disease treatment, and professional practice, giving you a solid understanding of the subject before you progress.

• Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology

• Public Health for Health Professionals

• Introduction to Human Disease and Treatment

• Introduction to Professional Practice

Degree
Year one

• Fundamentals of Surgery

• Fundamentals of Anaesthetics and Post-Anaesthetic Care

• Placement 1: Surgical Practice

• Placement 2: Anaesthetic Practice

• Becoming a Professional Practitioner

• Evidence: Your Profession in a Global Context

Year two

• Developing Surgical Care

• Developing Anaesthetic Care

• Placement 3: Developing Anaesthetic Practice

• Placement 4: Developing Surgical Practice

• Pharmacology in Perioperative Practice

• Exploring Knowledge Through Curiosity

Final year

• Placement 5: Complex Anaesthetic Practice

• Placement 6: Complex Surgical Practice

• Complex Perioperative Patient Care

• Post Anaesthetic Care

• Leading for the Future as a Health and Care Professional

• The Evidence-based Practitioner: Professional Project

We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated. Before accepting any offers, please check the website for the most up to date course content.

*For further information please check the course page on the Coventry University website.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Operating Department Practitioners, College of
• Health and Care Professions Council