MSc-PgDip-PgCert Advancing Paediatric Practice

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Sheffield Hallam University

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• Entry requirements
  We designed this course for health professionals who specialise in paediatrics. It is for health professional working across different settings, including • the acute sector • child development centres • schools-based services • specialised regional units.
• Academic title
  MSc/PgDip/PgCert Advancing Paediatric Practice
• Course description
  You work towards an MSc in advancing paediatric practice in physiotherapy, occupational therapy or nursing.
  
  An interprofessional team deliver the course. The taught sessions are generic but supplemented by student-directed learning in your field.
  
  We designed the assignments for each module to allow you to explore how you can apply your learning to clinical practice in your own discipline and in your chosen sub speciality of paediatrics.
  
  You explore and develop • evidence-based practice • advanced clinical decision making • ethical and socially inclusive practice.
  
  This course is currently only available part-time. It will also be available as a full-time course from September 2009.
  
  Associated careers
  
  The course enhances professional and academic development. It develops the essential skills required for graduates to follow careers in research, lecturing and the emerging clinical specialist and consultant in your discipline.
  
  Course content
  
  Postgraduate certificate core modules
  • integrated paediatric practice • research methods for practice • measuring health outcomes
  
  
  
  Postgraduate diploma core modules
  Postgraduate certificate plus
  • ethical issues in clinical practice • disability and inclusive practice • exploring clinical practice or evaluating practice
  
  Options
  • pain management • understanding core stability • cognitive and perceptual processes in child development
  
  You can also choose options from any of our health and social care modules. These may be physiotherapy related or generic.
  
  MSc
  Postgraduate diploma plus
  • dissertation
  
  Options
  Accreditation of previous certificated learning
  We may award credit for previous certificated study that you may have taken at an earlier period.
  
  Accreditation of prior experiential learning
  We may award credit for previous professional experience.

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