PGCert Clinical Education

Year 1

(Award available for year: Postgraduate Certificate)

Learning outcomes

LO1. Demonstrate a systematic and critical understanding of the design, delivery,
assessment and evaluation of learning and teaching in the clinical setting and
higher education;

LO2. Demonstrate independence in applying this knowledge in practice;

LO3. Take a proactive and self-reflective role as educators in the clinical setting and
higher education to evaluate their own professional practice and that of others;

LO4. Engage with the implications of teaching inter-professionally;

LO5. Evaluate current issues and research and their relevance to learning and teaching
in the clinical context.

Transferable (key) skills

Postgraduate Certificate students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- Insight into the essential skills for postgraduate level study, including IT skills, literature searching, assignment planning, academic writing, critical reading and group working;
- Increased capacity to evaluate their own achievement and that of others;
- Increased capacity for inter-professional working, networking and learning
- Enhanced skills in learning and working in a digital age
- Enhanced written and verbal communication skills

Assessment

The Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Education 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 the design, delivery, assessment, evaluation and appraisal of learning and teaching in the clinical setting and/or tertiary education contexts in uni-, multi- or inter-professional contexts;
- drawing on a range of perspectives on learning theory, learning in the workplace, clinical education and the design and delivery of learning, teaching and assessment in clinical education
- evaluating policy, current practice issues and research relevant to the clinical context and clinical education.