Key Facts
- Indicative Fee
Home/EU: £4338 Part-Time: £2169.00
International: £9906 Part-Time: £4953.00 - 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 Continuing and Professional Education
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Clinical Education MA
This MA will enable you to:
- apply research and analytical procedures
- give critical consideration to clinical educational practice, and critique existing paradigms and approaches
- appraise critically, design and develop your own clinical educational practice
- identify new questions about clinical education, its contexts and modes of development
- successfully write essays and conduct research in clinical education in an area which is of value in developing policy and professional practice.
Features
The programme:
- addresses the contemporary context, educational theory and practical teaching skills relevant to practioners of all disciplines involved in education and training in the clinical environment
- highlights national and international debates in clinical education
- is taught by staff who are leaders in the field of clinical professional education
- enables you to gain the maximum personal and professional benefit through a high level of individual support.
Who is this programme for?
Practitioners of all disciplines involved in education and training in the clinical environment.
Attendance
Some modules require evening attendance once a week; others require attendance over one or two full days or on a weekend basis once or twice a term.
How is the programme assessed? Each module is assessed by written coursework (5,000-word assignments), and the course as a whole is assessed through the extended piece of written work. This may be a dissertation of approximately 20,000 words or a report of 10,000 words.
Entry Requirements
You should have a good honours degree and relevant professional experience.
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
- Assessment: Issues and Practice
- Designing Courses and Curricula
- Developing Supervisory and Professional Practice
- Education And Technology In Clinical Practice: Perspectives And Issues
- Education for the Professions
- Improving Lecturing
- Incorporating ICT into Teaching/Training Practice in Higher and Professional Education
- Innovation and Change in Higher and Professional Education
- Issues in Educating and Training Mature Adults (50+)
- Leading And Managing Change And Improvement In Clinical Education
- Learning in Small Groups
- Professional Development Portfolio 1
- Simulations In Clinical Practice Education
- Understanding Education Research
