MEd Clinical Education

Year 2

(Award available for year: Postgraduate Diploma)

Learning outcomes

On completion of Year 2 (Postgraduate Diploma) students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- Demonstrate a systematic and critical understanding of the design, delivery, assessment and evaluation of learning and teaching in clinical settings and higher education
- Demonstrate independence in the critical application and synthesis of educational knowledge to clinical research and practice in healthcare settings.
- 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
- Explore and develop opportunities for inter-professional education and understanding of other professional roles
- Critically evaluate current issues and research and their relevance to learning and teaching in the clinical context
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of a broad range of theoretical approaches to teaching and learning in clinical education
- Critically review developments in healthcare education and understand any implications for their own practice
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the principles and concepts of curriculum development in healthcare education
- Analyse key management concepts, methods and tools and their effectiveness in relation to managing change in healthcare education
- Identify, analyse and prioritise issues in reviewing and redesigning curricula, especially in relation to the developing blended and e-learning initiatives.
- Conduct, and critically appraise, a literature search using library and computing facilities
- Analyse the ethical issues in both teaching and learning, and clinical education research and prepare a submission for ethical approval for their proposed project.

Transferable (key) skills

On completion of Year 2 (Postgraduate Diploma) 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;
- Evaluate received opinion about established and new developments teaching and learning in healthcare and clinical education
- Demonstrate competence and skill in designing, reviewing, delivering and managing clinical education programmes
- Evaluating their own achievement and that of others
- Inter-professional working and learning
- Networking
- Enhanced skills in learning and working in a digital age
- Enhanced written and verbal communication skills

Assessment

Achievement for Year 2 (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.