MSc/PgDip/PgCert Advancing Professional Practice (Paediatrics)
Part-time
Location • Collegiate Campus
Subject area • Physiotherapy
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Core modules
Integrated paediatric practice
You explore developmental processes and the impact of impairment on growth and development of the child. Focusing on your own area of clinical expertise, you evaluate the evidence base for interventions. You explore child and family-centred care, models of clinical decision-making, and interagency collaborative management of the child and family.
Research methods for practice
This module covers a range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. You explore research ethics, study design, data collection and analysis.
Measuring health outcomes
This module examines the theoretical understanding of measurement, measuring scales and instruments. You identify and evaluate healthcare measures applicable to your own area of practice.
Disability and inclusive practice
This module explores models of disability, practices that hinder or promote social inclusion and strategies for promoting best practice, choice, and independence for children who have a disability.
Ethical issues in clinical practice
This module examines the ethical dilemmas arising in clinical practice in a variety of contexts and cultures. You explore issues of consent autonomy and paternalism multi-cultural faith perspectives distributive justice health inequality.
Dissertation
You carry out a sustained, in-depth piece of independent learning to demonstrate critical understanding and the use of appropriate research methods.
Optional modules
One from
cognitive and perceptual processes in child development
pain management
understanding core stability
teaching in higher education
Find out more about studying MSc/PgDip/PgCert Advancing Professional Practice (Paediatrics)
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
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Physiotherapy training room
The physiotherapy room at our Collegiate Campus gives students a hands on experience as it would be in a real environment.
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