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PgDip Clinical Practice

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Study mode

Part time

Duration

3 years

Start date

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Key information
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Qualification type

Postgraduate Diploma

Subject areas

Health Studies Nursing Paramedical Services / Supplementary Medicine Medical Sciences

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

If you’re a hands-on health professional with a passion for patient care, our progressive Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Practice could give you the opportunity to build on your skills with an entirely clinically-focused curriculum.

Course Details

At the University of Bolton, we take a distinctively different approach to clinical practice, focusing wholly on patient care and dispensing with traditional modules in less relevant areas such as professional development and leadership. Our Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Practice is built around solution-focused problem solving and patient journeys, challenging students to become exceptional thinkers, safe decision-makers and skilled clinicians. You’ll have the opportunity to build your theoretical knowledge and then put your skills into practice safely within our supervised on-site setting.

We’ll cover modules within the areas of human anatomy and physiology, as well as exploring the biological basis and mechanisms of disease. Working with advanced resources such as the Anatomage anatomy table, you’ll have the opportunity to broaden your knowledge of clinical practice and learn to work in ways that aim to improve quality and productivity. Within the Clinical Simulation Suite, meanwhile, you can experience the dynamics of a clinical setting and test your abilities on high-tech, computerised manikins - as well as your classmates!

Career opportunities

This course has been developed for experienced, qualified registered nurses and other health professionals working in primary, secondary and tertiary health care settings, who wish to undertake advanced clinical education at Master's level. It’s designed to develop your knowledge and therapeutic skills, and help you to build a range of transferable employability skills including critical appraisal skills, decision making, problem solving, diagnostics and clinical management skills.

Modules

Clinical Examination Skills are required by all healthcare professionals to enable them to carry out accurate assessments of patients to inform their healthcare journey. This module will help you develop your clinical examination skills, from taking a history to completing specific, system-based examination and will teach you how to examine patients in a systematic and organised way so that you can identify normal, abnormal and pathological changes in those patients. You will learn how to identify red flags, make sense of your findings and link them to specific disease processes in order to aid in the diagnosis of ill health. You will learn the limitations of each examination in the context of individual patients and you will be able to identify a need for more detailed investigation or referral.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

To be confirmed

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

International applications are not possible for this course.

Entry requirements

You should be a health professional with at least a Lower Second Class Honours degree (2.2) in a subject relevant to health or social care practice, or recent evidence of relevant study at level HE6 or above. If you don’t meet these requirements but have significant relevant experience, a professional qualification, or show significant promise to excel on the course and have a positive impact on clinical practice, we’ll be happy to consider your application.