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Postgraduate short courses/modules

The following modules offered as part of our postgraduate qualifications are also offered on a standalone basis as short courses.

Advanced Practice – Psychosocial Interventions in Mental Health PgDip/MSc
Exercise for Health MSc
Healthcare Education and Clinical Leadership MSc
Maternal and Child Health – Socio-Cultural Perspectives MSc
Medical Imaging, Oncology Practice or Breast Evaluation Postgraduate Certificate/Postgraduate Diploma/MSc
Rehabilitation PgCert/PgDip/MSc
Rehabilitation Social Work Route PgDip/MSc
Social work

Advanced Practice – Psychosocial Interventions in Mental Health PgDip/MSc

  • Active case management in advanced practice
  • Advancing practice in mental health
  • Applied pathophysiology and advanced clinical reasoning
  • Collaborative working and treatment decisions facilitating concordance
  • Contemporary issues in the management of people with long term conditions
  • Globalisation, youth and culture: supporting resilience and conflict resolution
  • Personal, professional and leadership development in advanced practice

Exercise for Health MSc

  • Critical thinking for exercise for health
  • Life stages in exercise for health - the early years
  • Life stages in exercise for health - the later years
  • Obesity and diabetes
  • Managing fatigue
  • Psychology for exercise

Healthcare Education and Clinical Leadership MSc

  • Health and social care in context
  • Managing change in health and social care

Maternal and Child Health – Socio-Cultural Perspectives MSc

  • Bio-social perspectives: conception to spontaneous weaning
  • Child and adolescent mental health
  • Determinants of maternal and child health
  • Ethics and law
  • Factors influencing children’s and young people’s development
  • Leading and managing people in healthcare
  • Managing information in healthcare
  • Managing pain in children
  • Perinatal mental health
  • Power, risk and organisational culture
  • Professional development and excellence in clinical practice
  • Professional responses to domestic violence and abuse
  • Sexual health and wellbeing
  • Supervision of midwives
  • Understanding childhood experience for safeguarding health and promoting wellbeing

Medical Imaging, Oncology Practice or Breast Evaluation Postgraduate Certificate/Postgraduate Diploma/MSc

  • Advanced dental and maxillo-facial radiography
  • Advanced principles and practice of breast interventional techniques
  • Assessing and supervising in the workplace
  • Clinical breast examination and client communication
  • Computed tomography I (Principles) and II (Clinical practice)
  • External beam radiotherapy planning
  • Family history and genetics of breast cancer
  • Image guided radiotherapy verification
  • Interpretation and reporting in mammography
  • Introduction to breast imaging with radiation
  • Magnetic resonance imaging 1 - Principles
  • Management of people in the workplace
  • Management of treatment toxicity in oncology
  • Managing continuing professional development
  • Principles of digital imaging
  • Principles and practice of administration of intravenous injections
  • Professional practice in mammography I and II
  • Radiotherapy practice
  • Research methods
  • Self-managed learning
  • Ultrasound of the breast

Rehabilitation PgCert/PgDip/MSc

  • Critical practice in rehabilitation
  • Life after stroke (15 credits)
  • Life after stroke (30 credits)
  • Pain management
  • Policy and practice in rehabilitation
  • Pulmonary rehabilitation
  • Rehabilitation in context
  • Surviving cancer

Rehabilitation Social Work Route PgDip/MSc

  • Critical practice in rehabilitation
  • Policy and practice in rehabilitation

Social work

  • Adulthood, development and transitions
  • Applying legal, ethical and policy frameworks for multi-agency decision making in child and family services
  • Consolidation of social work practice with adults
  • Consolidation of social work practice with children, young people, their families and carers
  • Enabling learning
  • International social work: models and practice
  • Legal, ethical and policy frameworks for inter-professional decision-making in adult services
  • Mentoring and advanced assessment of professional practice
  • Planning and delivery of training
  • Power, risk and decision-making in contemporary partnership contexts
  • Practice teaching
  • Professional education and training in human services (PETHS) in context: law, policy and ethics
  • Professional responses to domestic violence and abuse
  • Psychology of teaching and learning
  • Substance misuse through the life stages
  • Substitute care
  • Supervision of professional practice
  • Understanding childhood experience for safeguarding health and promoting wellbeing

Find out more

For full details of our continuing professional development courses, including postgraduate modules/short courses:

 

Continuing professional development prospectus 2009-11