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

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Science)

Learning outcomes

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

1. understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed knowledge of Cardiac Physiology and professional competencies informed by recent research/scholarship in the discipline;

2. deploy accurately standard techniques of analysis and enquiry within the discipline of Cardiac Physiology;

3. demonstrate a conceptual understanding which enables the development and sustaining of an argument;

4. discuss and evaluate aspects of recent research and/or scholarship within the Cardiac Physiology and Healthcare field;

5. demonstrate understanding of the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge within Cardiac Physiology;

6. make appropriate use of scholarly reviews and primary sources;

7. apply their knowledge and understanding in order to initiate and carry out an extended project;

8. conform to NSHCS and AHCS professional boundaries and norms; and evidence skills required to register as a practicing Cardiac Physiologist

9. demonstrate reflective practice

10. communicate effectively in English using verbal and non-verbal skills

Transferable (key) skills

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

1. the transferable/key/generic skills necessary for employment related cardiac physiology;

2. the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;

3. the deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations within clinical practice;

4. the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences;

5. the ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature;

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 to a broad range of aspects of Cardiac Physiology;

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

3. the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;

4. evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within Cardiac Physiology;

5. work that is typically both evaluative and creative;

6. clinical competencies reflective of a Graduate Cardiac Physiologist