PGDip Health Informatics

Year 1

(Award available for year: Postgraduate Diploma)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the programme students should have shown evidence of being able:
- to demonstrate in-depth, specialist knowledge of the discipline of Health Informatics;
- to demonstrate a mastery of the skills, techniques and methodologies that underpin the discipline of Health Informatics;
- to demonstrate an ability both to learn from and evaluate current issues and research in Health Informatics and apply concepts, frameworks and understanding to the practice of Health Informatics;
- to demonstrate the ability to both understand and work with other disciplines to ensure the delivery of Health Informatics to enhance Health systems and Health Care delivery;
- to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to their own research or advanced scholarship;
- to take a proactive and self-reflective role in working and to develop professional relationships with others;
- to proactively formulate ideas and hypotheses relevant to Health Informatics and to develop, implement and execute plans by which to evaluate these.

Transferable (key) skills

Postgraduate Diploma students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- the skills necessary for employment in a higher capacity in industry or area of professional practice;
- evaluating their own achievement and that of others;
- self direction and effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations;
- independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;
- critically to engage in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms.

Assessment

Achievement for the Postgraduate Diploma will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the programme and will involve the achievement of the students in:
- demonstrating the ability to apply breadth and/or depth of knowledge to a complex specialist area;
- drawing on a range of perspectives on an area of study;
- evaluating received opinion;
- make sound judgements whilst understanding the limitations on judgements made in the absence of complete data.