Study Details: 1 year, part-time (you will be required to attend for 5 days)
This course is aimed at health and social care professionals who are working within a role involving caring for people with long-term conditions. It offers you the opportunity to develop your knowledge and understanding of history taking and diagnostic reasoning, self-care strategies, case management/case finding and therapeutic interventions.
This course provides you with an opportunity to develop the expertise required to manage people with a long term condition.
You will consider the implications for patients and carers facing the reality of living well or dying as a result of a long-term condition.
Your learning will be enhanced through the opportunity to meet service users within the University setting and discuss the implications of living with a long-term condition.
You will have the opportunity to explore research relevant to your individual professional developmental needs and apply this in your specialist area of practice.
This inter-professional course provides you with an opportunity to study alongside a diverse range of students from other health professions providing a richness to the course.
Teaching and assessment
The course is delivered through a range of teaching methods including formal lectures, seminars, small group tutorials, e-learning and case-based tutorials.
Assessment involves a variety of formative and summative methods including written case studies and presentations. Your module specification/course handbook will provide full details of the assessment criteria applying to your course.
Feedback (usually written) is normally provided on all coursework submissions within three term time weeks – unless the submission was made towards the end of the session in which case feedback would be available on request after the formal publication of results. Feedback on exam performance/final coursework is available on request after the publication of results.
The University of Huddersfield operates an attendance monitoring system. Further details can be found in the Attendance Monitoring Policy.
for this course are normally:
You must be a Health or Social Care Practitioner, registered with a professional body such as the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) with at least 12 months post-registration employment
Have an honours degree at 2:2 or above, have studied at honours level or can demonstrate appropriate knowledge and skills at honours degree standard. We will consider other qualifications and experience on an individual case basis
If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum requirements of an English Language qualification. The minimum for IELTS is 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5, or equivalent will be considered acceptable. Read more about the University’s for students outside of the UK on our Where are you from information pages.
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