Clinical Education PGCert

Course overview

This course is for our January 2026 start date. To apply for our January 2025 start date, please visit here.

This course is taught fully online.

Our Clinical Education PGCert is an interprofessional programme designed to develop healthcare professionals into exceptional education practitioners. Our course provides a responsive, work-related and academically robust route for all healthcare practitioners who engage with teaching and learning. Irrespective of whether you're from a clinical settings or a Higher Education institution, this course will develop your understanding of the education and assessment pedagogies of the next generation of clinical practitioners.

Develop your skills and understanding of the core concepts of clinical education and learn from expert academics and clinicians from the Faculty of Medicine and Health and practitioners from NHS Trusts.

With us, you will:

• Debate and discuss the central themes and issues in clinical education.

• Make critical and creative connections between policy, educational theory and your own practice.

Our course is rooted in workplace learning, encouraging you to make critical and creative connections between your own – and your students’ – practice and theoretical perspectives on teaching, learning and assessment.

The course received Higher Education Academy accreditation at Level 2 of the Professional Standards Framework for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education in 2010. Recognition as a Fellow is available to all students who successfully complete the course.

A one-off fee is payable by students who do not hold a current teaching contract with a subscribing higher education institution. The course was successfully revalidated in 2023.

Applying

Entry requirements

A bachelor (hons) degree 2.2 or above in a health-related subject.

A minimum of 2 years’ experience (or part-time equivalent) in practice. Involvement in education and training in current role.

Non-standard entry application routes are considered on a case-by-case basis.

This course is open to international students.

Entry on the appropriate professional register. It is expected that applicants will be a member of the relevant professional body. Referees must therefore include a statement indicating whether or not the applicant is a member of a professional body.

English language requirements

IELTS 7.0 overall, with no less than 6.5 in any component.

Career opportunities

Our graduates have gone on to gain promotion within the area of education and training in their professional fields.

Others have progressed to further study for the Clinical Education MEd or doctoral study.