BSc (Hons) Healthcare Science (Cardiac Physiology)(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)

Year 2

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:

1. demonstrate a broad understanding of the concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which are standard features in a range of aspects of Cardiac Physiology;

2. apply generic and subject specific intellectual qualities to standard situations outside the context in which they were originally studied;

3. Employ and reflect on the main methods of enquiry in Cardiac Physiology and critically evaluate the appropriateness of different methods of enquiry;

4. use a range of techniques to initiate and undertake the analysis of data and information;

5. adjust to professional and disciplinary boundaries within Cardiac Physiology;

6. effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

1. qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to healthcare practice

2. skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;

3. decision making.

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:

1. demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects/competencies of Cardiac Physiology as a profession to complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;

2. work that draws on a wide variety of material;

3. demonstrating professional competencies relevant to Cardiac Physiology;

4. the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion.