Key Facts
- Indicative Fee
Home/EU: £5450 Part-Time: £2725
International: £12300 Part-Time: £6150 - Financial support
- Course Tutor(s):Mark Newman
- Duration: One year full-time or two years part-time.
- Study Method: Full-time, Part-time
- Department: Dept of Lifelong and Comparative Education
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Clinical Education MA
This masters degree will:
- critically consider clinical educational practice, and critique existing paradigms and approaches
- allow you to appraise, design and develop your own clinical educational practice
- identify new questions about clinical education, its contexts and modes of development
- enable you to apply research and analytical procedures.
Features
This masters degree provides the opportunity to:
- address the relevant context, educational theory and practical teaching skills
- learn about national and international debates in clinical education
- write essays and conduct research in an area which is of value in developing policy and professional practice
- be taught by staff who are leaders in clinical professional education
- receive a high level of individual support
- become a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, if you complete 90 credits from required taught modules.
Who is this programme for?
Practitioners of all disciplines involved in the education and training of medical, nursing and other healthcare staff.
Entry requirements
A good first degree or equivalent, and relevant professional experience.
How are you assessed?
By coursework assignments, including 5,000-word essays and portfolios with reflective statements, and a 20,000-word dissertation or 10,000-word report.
Attendance
Face-to-face evening sessions and two-day workshops.
Core modules
- Assessing Learning
- Contemporary Issues in Clinical Education
- Designing Courses and Curricula
- Developing Supervisory and Professional Practice
- Improving Lecturing
- Incorporating ICT into Teaching/Training Practice in Higher and Professional Education
- Learning and Teaching for Adults
- Learning in Small Groups
Recommended modules
- Assessing Learning
- Designing Courses and Curricula
- Developing Supervisory and Professional Practice
- Education for the Professions
- Improving Lecturing
- Innovation and Change in Higher and Professional Education
- Leading And Managing Change And Improvement In Clinical Education
- Learning in Small Groups
- Professional Development Portfolio 1
- Technology And Simulation In Clinical Practice: Perspectives And Debates