Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 3 Year Part time Distance Learning
This programme will develop your knowledge of healthcare technology to improve outcomes.
This programme explores the use of health technologies to improve healthcare experiences and outcomes and the sustainability of health technology adoption to effect service transformation. This is achieved through focussing specifically on the following:
The need to consider implementation issues to successfully effect service transformation.
The importance of a user-centred approach in which user considerations are placed at the centre of technological shifts to avoid healthcare exclusion.
Innovation and entrepreneurship in health technology development and application.
The programme themes of transformation, user-centred approach, and innovation run through modules making up this programme of study.
The entry requirement for this course is a Bachelor (Honours) Degree at a 2:2 or above in a subject related to nursing, midwifery, or allied health professions with eligibility for, or a live professional professional registration with, the NMC or HCPC equivalent.
We may also consider lesser qualifications if you have sufficient relevant work experience within the industry.
This course has academic entry requirements which are assessed alongside relevant work experience. Full details of any relevant work experience, including references should be submitted with your application and may be considered for entry where the minimum academic entry requirements are below those required.
Usually, unrelated work experience is not considered sufficient for entry without meeting the minimum academic entry requirements. Please contact us with your specific circumstances by submitting an enquiry form and we will be happy to discuss your options.
If you want to get more information on the admission process, please get in touch with the postgraduate admissions team by submitting an enquiry form.
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All programme activities are rooted in clinical practice and have been developed to enable maximum transferability to your practice setting. As such this programme will further career opportunities by preparing you to lead positive changes in your area of clinical practice. You will be equipped with core knowledge of healthcare technologies which you can apply to your own area of clinical practice to influence engagement, enhance patient outcomes and improve service delivery.
In this programme you will:
Core knowledge and understanding is acquired through lectures, tutorials, group work and guided independent learning and assessed through coursework.
How you’ll be taught
This is a part-time (3 year) distance learning programme. The programme is delivered fully online and is supported with Moodle the virtual learning platform.
The virtual learning environment is facilitated and moderated by academic experts in the field of study thus providing
opportunities for you to discuss, critique and synthesise evidence.
Assessments
Formative and summative assessments are used to evaluate your learning against the module learning outcomes. Formative feedback is
provided to guide you on how you are progressing and to give constructive guidance to inform development for your final summative assignment.
Summative assignments take the form of authentic assessments and include reports, literature reviews, presentations, and technology appraisal.
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