Short Course

Medical Education: Professionalism in Healthcare Settings

Understand how to define, explore and assess professionalism in healthcare settings.

Our Medical Education courses build skills in teaching, learning, and assessing of others in healthcare or education settings.

Study with peers from across the sector, exploring ways of developing and delivering effective medical education. Address the challenges and investigate different approaches.

Designed for healthcare professionals new to level 7 study. Assessment includes various small tasks that allow you to practice necessary postgraduate skills such as:

Reflection
Critical analysis
Framing arguments
Formatting written work

Why study with us

Enhance your confidence and skills in medical and healthcare education, supervision, and assessment.
Tailor studies to suit your healthcare context, educator role and career aspirations.
Fit your studies around your work with this online course.

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Key course information

Level: Postgraduate, Level 7
Delivery: Online
Study mode: Part-time
Duration: one semester (approx. 13 weeks)
Module code: M4105
Start dates: September

Course overview

On successful completion, you will be able to:

Articulate the definitions and nature of professionalism in healthcare
Demonstrate the use of reflective practice within professional development
Critically evaluate methods of teaching and assessing professionalism in their healthcare practice
Evaluate current practices used in healthcare to deal with unprofessionalism

Content may include:

Definitions and history
Can professionalism be taught?
Learning and role modelling
Reflective practice and its role in the teaching and assessment of professionalism
Critical incident recording
Multisource feedback
Peer and self-assessment
Assessment of professionalism in the workplace
Conscientiousness measurement
Personal qualities assessment
Values-based selection in the Health Service
Revalidation and Fitness to Practise: Recognising ‘unprofessionalism’

Accreditations

The MSc/PGDip/PGCert Medical Education and its modules are accredited by the Academy of Medical Educators. To qualify for full membership, three modules (including two from MB4105, MB4102, MB4104 & MB4123) will need to have been undertaken.
The centre is accredited by the Royal College of Surgeons, a professional membership organisation and registered charity which exists to advance patient care. The Royal College of Surgeons of England, registered charity number 212808.

Future careers in Coaching and Mentoring

This is one of a suite of Medical Education courses. All designed to support healthcare professionals responsible for, or new to:

Teaching
Assessing
Supporting students
Supporting trainees

All focussed on educational institutions and workplace settings.

Course fees

Learning and assessment

Delivered online (distance learning) the course includes:

Live online teaching
Seminar sessions
Self-directed tasks
Tutorial support.

We encourage:

Analytical thinking
Skills application
Critical reflection of your own practice/experience
Developing independent learning skills

Use and share your experience with other students. Aid the learning process by understanding of how learning relates to real healthcare settings.

You will participate in collaborative activities/tasks and interaction with your peers.

Benefit from the varied experience of the learner group. and share knowledge and ideas and contextualise theory.

Assessment will be via a portfolio.

Pathway opportunities

Enquiries and applications

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This course is based in the School of Medicine and Dentistry

For information on possible changes to course information, see our essential and important course information

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