MSc-PGDip-PGCert Health Informatics

Comments about MSc-PGDip-PGCert Health Informatics - At the institution - Sheffield - South Yorkshire

• Objectives
  To provide healthcare professionals with graduate-level education and training in health informatics, through the flexible medium of an online collaborative programme of study To support the training needs of healthcare professionals in meeting the requirements of the NHS Information Management and Technology Strategy
• Entry requirements
  Entry requirements A first degree plus appropriate professional work experience. If you don´t have a first degree but you have relevant professional work experience we will consider you for admission to the PGDip or PGCert programmes in the first instance.
• Academic title
  MSc/PGDip/PGCert Health Informatics
• Course description
  Course content
  
  -Information Management and Technology (IM&T) in Healthcare
  -Communications and Information Technology
  -Healthcare Information and Evidence-based Practice
  -Change Management and IM&T
  -Research Methods and IM&T
  -one additional module from a choice ranging from Information for Clinical Care to Nursing Informatics
  -Dissertation Project (MSc candidates only).
  
  Teaching
  -Distance learning via web-based asynchronous learning
  -supported by telephone, fax or email tutoring.
  -Four day-schools per year
  
  Assessment
  -Written assignments
  -case studies
  -and project work
  -MSc:work-based dissertation