Health Studies (Taught)

This course offers registered healthcare practitioners the opportunity to advance their knowledge and skills within their specialist area of practice. It provides you with an innovative and flexible approach to learning, as well as a range of modules which enable you to develop a course to meet your individual learning needs. You will have the opportunity to develop your advanced thinking and leadership skills. These will be closely linked to your personal and practice development, as well as the needs of the changing workforce.

• This course has been designed to take workforce development priorities into consideration, all of the modules were developed in partnership with educational leads from clinical practice and aim to support your knowledge development and application in practice.

• Through personal development planning you will be encouraged to reflect on and continue to develop your knowledge, skills and competence as a professional.

• Personal development processes provide a medium for recording your progress and creating an effective CV which may be used to update your personal portfolio linked to professional body requirements.

• Learning is facilitated from our contemporary, purpose built campus which is supported by exceptional online resources and computing and library services.

Year 1 and 2
This course offers the flexibility to attain 180 postgraduate credits from modules or short courses within our Workforce Development portfolio. Please check the entry requirements for any module that you would like to study to ensure that you have the required professional registration and can meet all conditions, for example access to mentors, medical supervisors, students or patients, DBS checks and practice.

Students will usually select 60 credits per year from a range of the modules available within the School of Human and Health Sciences Workforce Development portfolio.

Year 3
Project (Health Related)

The modules are delivered through a range of teaching methods including formal lectures, seminars, small group tutorials, simulation, e-learning, case-based tutorials and problem based learning. Assessment involves a variety of methods including action plans, oral examinations, practical examinations and written examinations, learning contracts, reports and written essays and e-portfolio.

Your module specification/course handbook will provide full details of the assessment criteria applying to your course.

Feedback (usually written) is normally provided on all coursework submissions within three term time weeks – unless the submission was made towards the end of the session in which case feedback would be available on request after the formal publication of results. Feedback on exam performance/final coursework is available on request after the publication of results.