(Award available for year: Postgraduate Certificate)
Learning Outcomes MEd Year 1: Postgraduate Certificate Clinical Education
On completion of year 1 of the MEd Clinical Education programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
Subject Specific Learning Outcomes:
LO 1. Educational Design and Practice: Demonstrate a critical understanding of educational design, delivery, and evaluation principles, and apply them to enhance teaching in clinical and higher education settings.
LO 2. Application of Theory and Research: Independently synthesize and apply educational theories and research to improve clinical education and address current issues in healthcare learning environments.
LO 3. Professional Reflection and Development: Engage in reflective practice to assess and develop personal and peer teaching practices, while promoting interprofessional collaboration within healthcare education
Skills Learning Outcomes
SLO1: Educational Design and Practice: Design, implement and evaluate evidence- informed clinical education strategies and assessments, using creative, inclusive and appropriate approaches to enhance learning across healthcare professions.
SLO2: Professional Reflection and Development: Demonstrate critical self-reflection and ongoing professional development through sustained engagement with academic feedback, peer learning and career-relevant skills in clinical and academic settings.
Masters (taught), Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
1. Insight into the essential skills for postgraduate level study, including IT skills, literature searching, assignment planning, academic writing, critical reading and group working
2. Evaluate received opinion about established and new developments teaching and learning in healthcare and clinical education
3. Demonstrate competence and skill in designing, reviewing, delivering and managing clinical education programmes
4. Evaluating their own achievement and that of others
5. Inter-professional working and learning
6. Networking
7. Enhanced skills in learning and working in a digital age
8. Enhanced written and verbal communication skills
9. Demonstrate in depth understanding of the skills and tools required to undertake a piece of research into clinical education
10. Communication skills in relation to collaborative research design and evaluation and the capacity to articulate research ideas and work in progress to peers and colleagues
11. Promote learning across and within healthcare and health-care related professions, e.g. pharmacist technicians and pharmacists; pharmacists, paramedics, nurses and doctors
12. Skills necessary to undertake research at a higher level to prepare them for a future career as either a researcher or as an advocate of research-led work in clinical education
13. Self-direction and effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations relating to clinical education research
14. Independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development as a clinical educator
Achievement for the Year 1 (Postgraduate Certificate) Clinical Education will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the programme.
The assessments in the PgCert Clinical Education modules are designed to encourage students to integrate theoretical concepts, research, and practical skills, facilitating deep reflection and critical analysis of clinical education practices. These assessments allow students to engage meaningfully with the core themes of the module whilst developing skills to support their development as effective clinical educators.
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