Short courses at postgraduate level
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Postgraduate level |
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NMC approved course |
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Course suitable for a wide variety of allied health professionals |
Many of our postgraduate degrees offer a number of their modules on a standalone basis as short courses.
Click on a degree or subject area below to see the postgraduate modules available as standalone short courses.
- Advanced Practice PgCert/PgDip/MSc (four specialist routes: Cancer/Psychosocial Interventions/Prescribing/Cancer, Clinical Reasoning and decision making)
- Breast Evaluation PgCert/PgDip/MSc
- Exercise for Health PgCert/PgDip/MSc
- Healthcare Education and Clinical Leadership MSc
- Maternal and Child Health: Socio-Cultural Perspectives MSc
- Medical Imaging PgCert/PgDip/MSc
- Medical Imaging (Mammography) PgCert/PgDip/MSc
- Oncology Practice PgCert/PgDip/MSc
- Rehabilitation PgCert/PgDip/MSc
- Rehabilitation Social Work Route PgDip/MSc
- Social work
- NMC approved courses
- Work-based learning
Advanced Practice PgCert/PgDip/MSc (three specialist routes: Cancer/Psychosocial Interventions/Prescribing)
Modules available as short courses:
- 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
- Intensive care of the polytrauma patient
- Personal and professional development in advanced practice
- Prescribing
Royal Marsden School of Cancer Nursing and Rehabilitation advanced practice cancer modules available as short courses:
The following modules are validated by the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences. Click on the links to visit the course pages on the Royal Marsden website.
- Acute cancer care
- Advanced practice in cancer care
- Advanced practice with the acute/complex cancer patient
- Advanced practice in cancer palliative care
- Breast Cancer Care
- Cancer and the family
- Chemotherapy in cancer care
- Clinical leadership in cancer care
- Clinical trials in cancer care
- Communication in Cancer Care
- Enhancing communication skills in cancer practice
- Exploring cancer practice
- Foundations in cancer care
- Genito-urinary care
- Gynaecological Cancer Care
- Head and neck cancer care
- Haemato-oncology care
- Leadership in advanced practice
- Long term conditions and cancer
- Lung cancer care
- Lymphoedema in cancer care
- Mesothelioma practice in cancer care
- Palliative care in cancer
- Psychosocial impact of cancer
- Radiotherapy in cancer care
- The sciences of cancer care
- Stem cell transplantation in cancer care
- Find out our academic partnership with the Royal Marsden School of Cancer Nursing and Rehabilitation
Breast Evaluation PgCert/PgDip/MSc
Modules available as short courses:
- Advanced principles and practice of breast interventional technique
- Assessing and supervising in the workplace
- Breast cancer treatment, management and care
- Cancer management
- Clinical breast examination and client communication
- Computed tomography I - Principles
- Contemporary practice in breast cancer imaging
- Digital imaging in healthcare
- Foundation to image interpretation
- Interpretation and reporting in mammography
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Management of people in the workplace
- Managing continuing professional development
- Professional practice in mammography I
- Professional practice in mammography II
- Quality and professional issues in healthcare
- Research methods (radiography)
- Self-managed learning
- Ultrasound of the breast
Exercise for Health PgCert/PgDip/MSc
Modules available as short courses:
- Cognitive behaviour approaches in health and exercise
- Critical thinking for exercise for health
- Exercise and health through the life span
- Exercise prescription in exercise for health
- Managing fatigue – implications for exercise
- Obesity and diabetes
- Psychology for exercise
- Research management and quantitative data analysis
Healthcare Education and Clinical Leadership MSc
Modules available as short courses:
- Evaluating health and social care outcomes
- Health and social care management in context
- Leadership in practice
- Managing change in practice
- Research methods in healthcare practice
Maternal and Child Health: Socio-Cultural Perspectives MSc
Modules available as short courses:
- Bio-social perspectives: conception to spontaneous weaning
- Child and adolescent mental health
- Determinants of maternal and child health
- Factors influencing children’s and young people’s development
- Managing pain in children
- Perinatal mental health
- Power, risk and organisational culture
- Preparation of supervisors of midwives
- Professional development and excellence in clinical practice
Medical Imaging PgCert/PgDip/MSc
Modules available as short courses:
- Advanced dental and maxillo-facial radiography
- Assessing and supervising in the workplace
- Cancer management
- Computed tomography I - Principles
- Computed tomography II - Clinical practice
- Digital imaging in healthcare
- Foundation to image interpretation
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Management of people in the workplace
- Managing continuing professional development
- Principles and practice of administration of intravenous injections
- Quality and professional issues in healthcare
- Research methods (radiography)
- Self-managed learning
Medical Imaging (Mammography) PgCert/PgDip/MSc
Modules available as short courses:
- Advanced dental and maxillo-facial radiography
- Advanced principles and practice of breast interventional techiniques
- Assessing and supervising in the workplace
- Breast cancer treatment, management and care
- Cancer management
- Clinical breast examination and client communication
- Computed tomography I - principles
- Computed tomography II - clinical practice
- Contemporary practice in breast cancer imaging
- Digital imaging in healthcare
- Foundation to image interpretation
- Interpretation and reporting in mammography
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Management of people in the workplace
- Managing continuing professional development
- Principles and practice of administration of intravenous injections
- Professional practice in mammography I
- Professional practice in mammography II
- Quality and professional issues in healthcare
- Research methods (radiography)
- Self-managed learning
- Ultrasound of the breast
Oncology Practice PgCert/PgDip/MSc
Modules available as short courses:
- Assessing and supervising in the workplace
- Breast cancer treatment, management and care
- Cancer management
- Computed tomography I - principles
- Digital imaging in healthcare
- External beam radiotherapy planning
- Foundation to image interpretation
- Image guided radiotherapy verification
- Management of people in the workplace
- Managing continuing professional development
- Principles and practice of administration of intravenous injections
- Quality and professional issues in healthcare
- Radiotherapy practice
- Research methods (radiography)
- Self-managed learning
Rehabilitation PgCert/PgDip/MSc
Modules available as short courses:
- Critical practice in rehabilitation
- Evaluation of reflection in rehabilitation
- Life after stroke
- Living with and beyond cancer
- Pain management
- Policy and practice in rehabilitation
- Professional development in rehabilitation
- Respiratory rehabilitation
- Towards self-management after stroke
Rehabilitation Social Work Route PgDip/MSc
Modules available as short courses:
- Critical practice in rehabilitation
- Evaluation of reflection in rehabilitation
- Policy and practice in rehabilitation
- Professional development in rehabilitation
Social work
Modules available as short courses:
- 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 interprofessional 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 Professional education and training in human services (peths) in context: law, policy and ethics - Practice teaching modules
- Professional responses to domestic violence and abuse
- Psychology of teaching and learning
- Substance misuse through the life stage
- Substitute care
- Supervision of professional practice
Understanding childhood experience for safeguarding health and promotional wellbeing
NMC approved courses
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Work-based learning
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