Educational Aims
All parts of the course - the Postgraduate Certificate, the Postgraduate Diploma, and the Master of Studies - are delivered with the following overarching educational aims.
• Provide professionally relevant teaching and learning informed by research in an integrated clinical and teaching environment.
• Create an international cohort of consultants, GPs, dentists and other healthcare professionals able to pursue and develop their roles in a rapidly-changing and challenging environment of clinical medicine
• Develop the confidence within this cohort to lead service improvement for safe and high quality patient care, with the required knowledge, skills and capability to have a positive personal impact on the work of others in their clinical team and wider service
• Develop clinicians with an understanding of teaching, professional development and assessment in the field of clinical medicine
• Develop clinicians with an understanding of research methodologies and ethical considerations relevant to clinical medicine
• Encourage participants to develop as reflective practitioners with the emotional intelligence, resilience and astuteness required to be effective clinical leaders
• Encourage a commitment to intellectual challenge and evidence-based clinical practice informed by the latest conceptual and theoretical knowledge of medical education, research methods, ethics and clinical leadership and governance
The combined programme will permit students to:
- Develop the knowledge and critical understanding of recent developments in clinical medicine directly relevant to their future roles as tertiary centre consultants;
- Develop the knowledge and understanding of teaching and assessment strategies for complex concepts and themes informed by research in a rapidly changing integrated clinical and teaching environment;
- Enable deployment of new knowledge in their clinical practice and to have a positive personal impact on the work of others in their clinical team and wider service;
- Develop the knowledge of leadership models and their abilities and confidence as healthcare leaders of service improvement for safe and high quality patient care;
- Update and extend an understanding of research methodologies and ethical considerations.
- Ensure a systems based approach to the critical analysis and development of improvements in healthcare systems;
- Provide work-relevant learning around current problems, best-practice, challenges and potential solutions in clinical leadership and education.
- Critical engagement with and evaluation of the evidence base for effective clinical practice and measurement of outcomes;
- Develop extensive knowledge and deep understanding of a specialised field within clinical medicine (MSt via dissertation);
- Demonstrate detailed understanding of contemporary and future trends and issues in clinical research, education, leadership and for PgDip/MSt students healthcare data and law, and their implications for clinical practice
- Advanced awareness of self and identity as a clinical leader and the impact of culture, values and ethics on advanced clinical leadership (PgDip/MSt);
- Advanced knowledge of research methodology (MSt).