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Programme Details:

This innovative, contemporary, and well-established programme is intended for medical and allied health professionals working in clinical healthcare, including, doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, ACP’s, physiotherapists, radiographers, pharmacists and simulation technicians that have work roles and/or a specialist interest in clinical simulation.

In addition to being a highly sought after method of learning and teaching, clinical simulation is increasingly being used to inform systems design and proactive risk management to improve services and enhance patient safety.

This programme will provide students with the opportunity to develop these core skills and to maximise the utility of simulation in their own practice.'

Indicative Programme Structure:

Programme Structure (PG Cert Health and Medical Simulation)
Full Time (4 months – September entry only)
Part Time (2 semesters / 8 months – September and January entry)

This programme consists of two 30 credit modules:

• Health and medical Simulation: Design and Delivery (compulsory)

AND EITHER

• Medical Emergencies and Human Error OR
• Evidence-Based Practice

Please note, on successful completion of the programme, you may wish to use the PG Cert towards the MSc Health & Medical Simulation.

Programme Structure – MSc Health and Medical Simulation:
The programme of study follows a flexible, modular approach which offers students the opportunity to study a comprehensive range of subjects pertinent to the provision of high-quality simulation education practice. The curriculum contained within the two specialist modules includes simulation pedagogy, the design and delivery of scenarios, contemporary debriefing, planning simulation facilities, programming simulators, patient-safety, human factors and non-technical skills, clinical governance, risk management.

This programme provides both optional and compulsory access to related specialist content to broaden student’s educational expertise which is invaluable in today’s competitive workplace and brings a richness to the overall programme from an inter-professional and intra-professional perspective. The modular structure is outlined below.

An academic award of an MSc requires the student to acquire 180 credits, which will comprised of the two specialist modules, the two compulsory core modules and two of the four optional modules. Your programme of study will be agreed with your programme leader.

Compulsory Specialist modules (30 credits each):

• Health and Medical Simulation: Design and Delivery
• Medical Emergencies and Human Error: Managing Risk, Improving Services

Optional modules common interest (30 credits each):

• Technology Enhanced Learning
• Leadership in Practice
• Health and Medical Education in the Workplace
• Work Based Learning

Compulsory core modules (30 credits each):

• Evidence Based Practice
• Service Development Project

Assessment Details:
Varies across the modules, but may include academic essays, practical assignments, presentations, and web-based assessments.

Learning Outcomes:

Students will typically:

Provide students with the knowledge and skills required to utilise high, medium and low fidelity simulation as a training and educational tool in order to improve the knowledge, skills and experiences of others.

• Enable students to empower others to transfer learning acquired in simulation scenarios to the workplace in order to increase patient safety and improve the quality of services.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching in simulation settings on the knowledge and skills of other health care practitioners in order to increase patient safety and improve the quality of services.
• Critically appraise best evidence in order to inform and develop practice in simulation based medical education.