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Postgraduate Diploma Medical and Clinical Education

Postgraduate Diploma Medical and Clinical Education

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Study mode

Part time

Duration

5 years

Start date

03-OCT-24

Key information
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Qualification type

Postgraduate Diploma

Subject areas

Health Care / Medicine Teaching / Training Education Studies Medical Sciences

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Medical and Clinical Education (MaCE) was developed in response to requests from local GPs, nurses, and allied health professionals. The desire of these practitioners to develop their teaching and assessing skills, and to pursue an accredited programme, reflects the increasing recognition of the value of work-based learning in professional education.

The programme provides you with a systematic and critical understanding of the key concepts underlying learning, teaching, and assessing in the medical and clinical practice environment. It enables health care professionals to acquire advanced skills in teaching and assessing students in a medical and clinical practice context.

This is a modularised pathway, and you can choose to study part-time between two and five years. Teaching contributions are drawn from expertise across the University’s academic departments and many modules are supported by Moodle, our online learning environment.

This course will:

  • Enable you to apply your understanding of educational, legal, and ethical frameworks and healthcare policy to enable others to learn and enhance their own professional practice, thereby being a positive role model for your students
  • Help you engage in quality enhancement and improve students’ learning experiences.
  • Ensure you acquire a range of transferable employment-related skills, most importantly, independent learning skills for continuing professional development
  • Create flexible, inter-professional learning pathways to develop educators for the clinical professions

Modules

This module provides you with a range of techniques for collecting, analysing and interpreting data. It combines a theoretical and a practical approach to enable you to understand the collection and analysis process. At the end of the module, you will be able to design and pilot data collection instruments, conduct quantitative and qualitative data analysis using appropriate computer software, and interpret statistical and qualitative research findings. Find out more about this module at https://www.essex.ac.uk/short-courses/hs908/7/data-collection-analysis-and-interpretation.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

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International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

To be confirmed

Entry requirements

Entry requirements: Current registration with a relevant professional regulatory body, a relevant first degree, or equivalent e.g., professional experience and responsibility, current involvement in teaching and assessing in practice, plus 3 years healthcare experience. Applicants wishing to achieve NMC Practice Teacher or Teacher qualifications must supply on application: a statement of support from their service manager; the name of the practice teacher or teacher that will be supporting their practice learning; and evidence of successful completion of a mentor preparation programme or equivalent.

University information

The University of Essex prides itself on being at the forefront of change. It is an institution with a culture of boldness where creativity and curiosity in learning are both encouraged and expected. It’s a UK university, placing 36th and 32nd according to the Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2023 and the 2024 Complete University Guide rankings, respectively. At the University of Essex, students are taught by world-leading academics in a...more

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