MSc/PgDip/PgCert Advancing Professional Practice (Paediatrics)
Part-time
Location • Collegiate Campus
Subject area • Physiotherapy
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At a glance
If you are a physiotherapist, occupational therapist or nurse with experience in paediatric practice, studying this course can help you broaden your knowledge and offer professional recognition for your specialism.
Key points
• Develop a wider perspective on your professional role.
• Place your own role within the perspective of the wider team.
• Demonstrate a flexible and forward thinking approach to practice.
• Study the entire course or choose individual modules.
Develop a wider perspective on your professional role within the perspective of the wider team on this interprofessional course. This oversight allows you to demonstrate a flexible and forward thinking approach to practice.
You should choose this course if you are a physiotherapist, occupational therapist or nurse who already has experience in paediatric practice but who wishes to deepen and broaden their knowledge, skills and understanding in this highly specialised field.
Many students choose to study a work based learning module, allowing them to take a project targeted at developing their employer's service delivery. This has included projects such as development of training and implementation of standardised health outcome measures.
During the course you can take a placement module and apply some of your developing knowledge and skills. Students have taken placements across the UK, including Sheffield Children's Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital.
The dissertation module offers the choice of primary research, service evaluation and service development projects.
We are a leading provider of interprofessional learning and have a well-established postgraduate teaching portfolio. Our interprofessional programme has been developed in response to UK health and social care policies that prioritise the importance of coordinated interagency working and high quality professional practice in childcare.
This course is suitable for both UK and EU students. Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or Nursing and Midwifery Council is not required to study the course. However if you do not have a professional registration in the UK, you are not able to take a placement module.
Study individual modules
You can study individual modules from this course and gain academic credit towards a qualification. Visit our continuing professional development website for more information.
There are good opportunities to gain insight into paediatric practice from an international perspective, as students have come from the UK, EU and around the world.
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Related courses
Part-time – typically one year to PgCert
Starts September
Complete the application form available at www.shu.ac.uk/study/form
2013/14 academic year
Typically £1,530 a stage for PgCert, PgDip and MSc stages
Some of the modules on this course may be funded by the Department of Health.
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees and funding see www.shu.ac.uk/funding
2013/14 academic year
Typically £12,060 for the course
2014/15 academic year
Typically £12,150 for the course
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees, scholarships and bursaries see www.shu.ac.uk/international/fees
• coursework assignments • essays • management projects • problem solving exercises • group work • project • formal examinations
Physiotherapy training room
The physiotherapy room at our Collegiate Campus gives students a hands on experience as it would be in a real environment.
Staff profiles
Visit the Department of Allied Health Professions website to view profiles of the staff who teach in this subject area.
