PG Certificate Clinical Education (Part Time)

Key details

PG CERTIFICATE CLINICAL EDUCATION (PART TIME)

Start Year

2023

Attendance

Part Time

Award

Postgraduate Certificate

Duration (years)

Our course offers you the ideal opportunity to learn from experienced clinical educators in an inter-professional context. Our teaching combines workshops and distance learning, and our course activities are designed to facilitate critical thinking, collaboration, workplace-based reflection and learning, and professional development.

The course attracts students from a variety of professional backgrounds, across the fields of health and social care, including intercalating MBBS students. This rich mix of student knowledge, skills and experience is an incredible resource, challenging you to think about the diverse ways different people learn and helping you grow into an adaptable and creative teacher in the future.

Throughout the course, you’ll explore advances in both theory and practice in clinical education, and you will apply what you have learned to work-based projects. You’ll increase your knowledge and skills and broaden your perspective.

About

Studying for a Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Education at UEA will set you apart as a leader and educator in your field. Designed for health and social care professionals, it is a wonderful way to develop your teaching, support, and supervision skills, so that you can help others to learn, whether in clinical practice or higher education.

You can complete your PG Cert qualification in one year part-time, during which you will explore clinical education theory and practice and apply your knowledge and skills to work-based projects. You will develop fresh insights and get motivated to bring about change and promote excellence in clinical education.

If you are an excellent communicator and have a desire and aptitude for teaching, our course will open new doors for you. You could become a full-time educator, a mentor, or a supervisor in a health care setting. Either way, you will graduate ready to train and inspire the healthcare workforce of the future.

You will need to have access to teaching opportunities while you are on the course, to enable you to make concrete theory-practice links, and to facilitate work-based projects.

If you do not have access to such opportunities for teaching, your course director will endeavour to identify suitable teaching opportunities for you. However, you will need to notify us about this before commencing the course.

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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.

Assessment for Year 1

You will experience a variety of formative and summative assessments throughout the course. They include critical and reflective essays, and oral presentations of work-based projects.

Structure

You can complete your Postgraduate certificate by studying one year part-time.

During your time with us, you will need to complete two compulsory modules:

Enhancing teaching, learning & assessment in clinical education (20 credits)
Leading teaching, learning & assessment in clinical education (40 credits)

Within your compulsory modules, you’ll explore advances in both theory and practice in clinical education, and you will learn to apply your knowledge to the practical design and development of teaching and inquiry methods.

The clinical education modules are designed to help you reflect on your own learning to support learning in others. They will also help you develop the skills you need to design your own teaching programmes and techniques, in a way that is relevant to your discipline and clinical area.

Each credit relates to approximately 10 hours of study.

Teaching and Learning

Teaching

This programme is a collaborative initiative between the Norwich Medical School and the School of Health Sciences within the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMH) at UEA. The faculty has an excellent reputation, and this course offers you the ideal opportunity to learn from experienced clinical educators in an inter-professional context. Its blended approach combines workshops and distance learning, with activities designed to facilitate critical thinking, collaboration, workplace-based reflection and learning, and your professional development as an educator.

Most of the teaching is delivered face-to-face. Contact hours vary between modules, ranging from three to four full contact days.

Independent study

As well as hours spent in the classroom, you will undertake pre- and post-class activities, independent study, and spend time preparing assignments.

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PART TIME: Students must complete the two Core Modules to gain the 60 credits

Assessment for Year 1

You will experience a variety of formative and summative assessments throughout the course. They include critical and reflective essays, and oral presentations of work-based projects.

Compulsory Modules

ENHANCING TEACHING LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT IN CLINICAL EDUCATION

Code MED-7030D

Credits 20

This module will introduce students to the underpinning educational theory and practice required to enhance their clinical education role, particularly as a clinical supervisor, mentor, lecturer and practice educator. The module recognises the uniqueness of learning in clinical and practice settings and the importance of the role of the educator in facilitating learning which occurs in the context of client care. Learners develop skills and experience professional socialisation which cannot readily be acquired elsewhere. The overall aim of the module is to provide educators with a body of knowledge and principles to facilitate teaching, learning and assessment in practice-based settings. This will enable the educator to work effectively with learners who will become the workforce of the future and ultimately to improve services. This module is relevant to all health and social care professionals who supervise/mentor students, other clinicians, or teach in higher education, whether they are new to these roles or new to studying at masters level. The module is structured around 3 themes that will facilitate the knowledge and skills to support other adult learners. The 3 days are entitled; -Self development in clinical education -The learning environment in clinical education -Assessment and evaluation in clinical education. These days will be complimented with the requirement to engage with online distance learning.

Leading Teaching Learning and Assessment in Clinical Education

Code MED-7034H

Credits 40

This module is relevant to all health and social care professionals who supervise/mentor students; support others as educators and/or lead in educational activities in the clinical and or educational environment. The module aims to enhance participants’ teaching, learning and assessment roles and considers the changing healthcare context and challenges for those who lead on teaching, learning and assessment in their workplace. The module offers those with professional experience the opportunity to pursue postgraduate education relevant to their interests and requirements for those seeking to develop their educational leadership role. The module enables participants to explore work based opportunities with theoretical underpinning to enhance their academic practice as a result. The participants will gain a comprehensive understanding to manage the learning of others whilst developing a critical understanding of the application of theory and practice to inform and advance clinical education. The module is structured around 6 themed study days to facilitate the knowledge and skills to support leadership and supervision of others in an educational role. The 6 themed days are: Valuing reflection in self and others Advancing reflection to transform the workplace Enhancing the learning environment Assessment and feedback in clinical education Evaluation of learning and the changing curriculum Consolidation of learning and identification of future learning needs These days will be complimented with the requirement to engage with online distance learning.

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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 degree - 2.2 or equivalent

Degree subject

A Health Care profession

Additional entry requirements

The University will also consider applications from applicants with current registration as a health professional with an appropriate professional statutory regulatory body.

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:

IELTS: 7.0 (minimum 7.0 in all component)
PTE: 76 (minimum 76 in all components)

All scores must be less than two years old.

Test dates should be within two years of the course start date.

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 also run pre-sessional 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.