MSc ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE (PART TIME)
MSC ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE (PART TIME)
The Advanced Professional Practice programme reflects national and international benchmarks for advanced level professional practice for the healthcare workforce, while supporting you to build a personalised qualification around your own advancing professional practice role. In addition to four core modules, you will choose from a wide range of optional modules. This allows you to tailor the programme to the context of your own professional practice, enabling you to achieve optimal professional development. As the programme is aligned to the Health Education England Multi-Professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England (HEE, 2017), the four pillars of advanced practice (clinical practice, management and leadership, education and research) are embedded in each module in the programme portfolio, particularly in the core modules, to ensure that you explicitly advance all four pillars over the course of the MSc programme. For many students, the completion of specific modules will allow them to seek credentialing of their practice by an external professional body, e.g. Advanced-level Nurse Practitioner [RCN] Model B: Master’s Degree in Advanced Practice (not accredited by RCN) or Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Emergency Medicine [Royal College of Emergency Medicine].
The programme has three academic awards, enabling students to complete the programme with a Post-Graduate Certificate (PGCert), Post-Graduate Diploma (PGDip) or full MSc in Advanced Professional Practice, depending on the number of credits achieved and required core modules completed.
About
We consider advanced practice to be a level of practice, which can be achieved across a wider range of roles and settings in health and social care. Therefore, this programme is suitable for health and care professionals working in a wide variety of settings and to both national and international applicants living and working in the UK. As the programme requires learners to be assessed in practice and to undertake a service improvement project within their clinical setting, you must have the support of your employing organisation and a commitment by them that they will meet the assessment and governance requirements of the programme during your period of study. To this end, a meeting between the University, you and your line manager/practice assessor will be required during two core modules on the programme.
Key Attributes of the Programme:
A flexible approach to study: innovative and accessible online and blended learning teaching methods will sustain your interest and motivation, while giving you control over your learning experience.
Community of Learning: we embrace and encourage diverse professional perspectives and backgrounds to promote an inclusive and participatory approach to learning.
Underpinned by the four pillars of advanced practice: a range of core and optional modules to enhance practitioners’ overall level of practice, whatever their role.
Individual focus: evaluate and advance your practice by recognising and addressing areas of limitation, building on strengths, and reflecting on and applying your learning experiences to your own professional role and context.
Career-enhancing: gain the knowledge, insight and skills to progress your career to the next level, demonstrating your value to your employer and meeting the ever-changing challenges of modern healthcare practice.
Student support: to enable you to achieve your full potential, we offer a wide range of support for your academic study including a range of advisers and specialists within the school and programme team, and the University’s dedicated student support service.

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Important Information
Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the courses listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the regular review of course programmes. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes, there will normally be prior consultation of students and others. Changes may for example consist of variations to the content and method of delivery of programmes, courses and other services, to discontinue programmes, courses and other services and to merge or combine programmes or courses. The University will endeavour to keep such changes to a minimum, and will inform students.After the Course
Whether you’re looking for promotion or to advance your knowledge and skills more generally, complete our programme and you will walk away armed with the academic and practice-based evidence you require to support your professional progression. You will be able to demonstrate learning across the pillars of advanced practice, with the emphasis dependent on the pathway you have chosen and the modules you have selected.
Dependent on your role within practice and the modules selected, there is also potential for application for credentialing with external bodies. Credentialling is available via the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. You can also use the learning gained through the programme to support your portfolio application to register with HEE as an advanced practitioner.
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Assessment for Year 1
A range of assessment methods are used throughout the programme, which have been carefully considered to enable you to demonstrate effectively both the learning outcomes for each module and your progression in relation to the pillars and principles of advanced practice.
Formative and summative assessment strategies across the programme include written assignments, unseen examinations, case studies, objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs), group/individual poster/oral presentations, practice assessment documents and portfolios.
Assessment for Year 2
A range of assessment methods are used throughout the programme, which have been carefully considered to enable you to demonstrate effectively both the learning outcomes for each module and your progression in relation to the pillars and principles of advanced practice.
Formative and summative assessment strategies across the programme include written assignments, unseen examinations, case studies, objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs), group/individual poster/oral presentations, practice assessment documents and portfolios.
Assessment for Year 3
A range of assessment methods are used throughout the programme, which have been carefully considered to enable you to demonstrate effectively both the learning outcomes for each module and your progression in relation to the pillars and principles of advanced practice.
Formative and summative assessment strategies across the programme include written assignments, unseen examinations, case studies, objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs), group/individual poster/oral presentations, practice assessment documents and portfolios.
In year three of the programme, you are expected to complete the 40-credit service improvement project module, in which you plan, conduct and evaluate a practice-based project to enhance usual practice within your service. This module provides an opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills developed throughout the programme in clinical practice, leadership, education and research.
In Years 1 and 2, Students must take the following core modules: Using Evidence to Lead & Advance Practice (20 credits), Managing Yourself & Leading Others(20 credits) and Advanced Clinical Assessment (20 credits). Students will select 20-40 credits from the following modules:
Assessment for Year 1
A range of assessment methods are used throughout the programme, which have been carefully considered to enable you to demonstrate effectively both the learning outcomes for each module and your progression in relation to the pillars and principles of advanced practice.
Formative and summative assessment strategies across the programme include written assignments, unseen examinations, case studies, objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs), group/individual poster/oral presentations, practice assessment documents and portfolios.
Important Information
Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring and review of modules. Where this activity leads to significant change to a programme and modules, the University will endeavour to consult with affected students. The University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. Availability of optional modules may be restricted owing to timetabling, lack of demand, or limited places. Where this is the case, you will be asked to make alternative module choices and you will be supported during this process.In Years 1 and 2, Students must take the following core modules: Using Evidence to Lead & Advance Practice (20 credits), Managing Yourself & Leading Others(20 credits) and Advanced Clinical Assessment (20 credits). Students will select 20-40 credits from the following modules:
Assessment for Year 2
A range of assessment methods are used throughout the programme, which have been carefully considered to enable you to demonstrate effectively both the learning outcomes for each module and your progression in relation to the pillars and principles of advanced practice.
Formative and summative assessment strategies across the programme include written assignments, unseen examinations, case studies, objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs), group/individual poster/oral presentations, practice assessment documents and portfolios.
Important Information
Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring and review of modules. Where this activity leads to significant change to a programme and modules, the University will endeavour to consult with affected students. The University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. Availability of optional modules may be restricted owing to timetabling, lack of demand, or limited places. Where this is the case, you will be asked to make alternative module choices and you will be supported during this process.Assessment for Year 3
A range of assessment methods are used throughout the programme, which have been carefully considered to enable you to demonstrate effectively both the learning outcomes for each module and your progression in relation to the pillars and principles of advanced practice.
Formative and summative assessment strategies across the programme include written assignments, unseen examinations, case studies, objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs), group/individual poster/oral presentations, practice assessment documents and portfolios.
In year three of the programme, you are expected to complete the 40-credit service improvement project module, in which you plan, conduct and evaluate a practice-based project to enhance usual practice within your service. This module provides an opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills developed throughout the programme in clinical practice, leadership, education and research.
Important Information
Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring and review of modules. Where this activity leads to significant change to a programme and modules, the University will endeavour to consult with affected students. The University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. Availability of optional modules may be restricted owing to timetabling, lack of demand, or limited places. Where this is the case, you will be asked to make alternative module choices and you will be supported during this process.Entry Requirements
Degree classification
Bachelors (Hons) degree - 2.2 or equivalent within the last 5 yearsDegree subject
Health Care subjectAdditional entry requirements
Equivalent evidence of recent study in the last 5 years includes
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Two or more degree level 6 CPD modules achieving 55% and above
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One or more Masters level 7 CPD modules achieving 50% and above
Additional Entry Requirements
Current Registered Healthcare professional (including Nurses, Midwives, Paramedics, Pharmacists, Physiotherapists) with a minimum of 2 years post registration practice experience, working at Band 5 and above in a suitable clinical facing role
You must submit a Memorandum of Understanding at the time of application. Your manager will need to confirm that you will be given the time and resources required for the programme.
This course is open to UK, EU and International applicants living and working in the UK.
Students for whom english is a foreign language
We welcome applications from students whose first language is not English or those whose degree was not taught in English. To ensure such students benefit fully from postgraduate study, we require evidence of proficiency in English. We also will require a certain standard to be achieved on the written element of the test. Our usual entry requirements are as follows:
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IELTS: 7.0 (minimum 6.5 in all component)
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PTE: 76 (minimum 67 in all components)
All scores must be less than two years old.
Other tests, including Cambridge English exams and the Trinity Integrated Skills in English are also accepted by the university. The full list of accepted tests can be found here: Accepted English Language Tests.
INTO UEA run pre-sessional English courses which can be taken prior to the start of your course. For further information and to see if you qualify please contact intopre-sessional@uea.ac.uk (INTO UEA Norwich).
Intakes
There are two intakes a year in January and September.
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Fees and Funding
Tuition fees for the Academic Year 2023/24 are:
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UK Students: £9,500 (full time)
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International Students: £19,800 (full time)
If you choose to study part-time, the fee per annum will be half the annual fee for that year, or a pro-rata fee for the module credit you are taking (only available for Home students).
We estimate living expenses at £1,023 per month.
Further Information on tuition fees can be found here.
Scholarships and Bursaries
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Course related costs
You can find information regarding additional costs associated on our Fees and finance webpages.

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How to Apply
Applications for Postgraduate Taught programmes at the University of East Anglia should be made directly to the University.
To apply please use our online application form.
FURTHER INFORMATION
If you would like to discuss your individual circumstances prior to applying please do contact us:
Postgraduate Admissions Office
Tel: +44 (0)1603 591515
Email: admissions@uea.ac.uk

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