Lifelong Learning | Clinical Education

Why choose this course?

The School of Continuing Education has over a decade of experience in delivering the postgraduate programme in Clinical Pharmacy Teaching, on which this new course will be based. This programme has been a considerable success and was part of a recent subject review of Education provision (which received the top score of 24 from QAA).
The School collaborated with healthcare and postgraduate medical education to develop this course and is able to draw on the expertise of teachers across a range of institutions and disciplines.
The programme is designed to take account of busy professionals' working lives and is offered part-time.
It will promote inter-professional learning for healthcare workers by sharing expertise and knowledge, by increasing understanding of the roles of healthcare professionals.
It offers the opportunity to develop research in teaching in clinical settings and for collaboration across professional interests.
Assessment is related to your role as clinical teachers in the workplace.

The course will enable you to:

develop your knowledge and skills in designing, delivering, and assessing learning and teaching in clinical settings
apply learning and teaching to the clinical setting
work with other healthcare professionals in teaching and learning issues
develop your expertise as a teacher or trainer in clinical settings
research a topic of your choice which will enhance your teaching
build up a network of support

In addition to the individual benefits outlined above (which will transfer into the workplace), your organisation will gain:

leaders in education who will cascade what they have learnt to others in the organisation
experts in learning, teaching and assessment in the clinical setting
an increase in the quality of education in the clinical setting which will support Department of Health frameworks for placement learning
teachers who will act as change agents promoting learning across professions as well as within
practitioners who will work with professionals, patients and carers to develop an environment which facilitates learning

Last updated by Helen Bradbury on 19th June 2007