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Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Education

Year 2

(Award available for year: Postgraduate Diploma)

Learning outcomes

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

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 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.

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