Study Details: 4 months part-time
Ultrasound guided injection therapy is a rapidly developing skill that is becoming the standard for performing peripheral musculoskeletal injection techniques. There are very few training opportunities to develop these skills and achieve a competency certificate. Brunel are pleased to offer this module in partnership with The Ultrasound Site.
Whether working within the NHS, private practice or elite sports, if you'd like to add the skills of ultrasound guided injection therapy to your already established musculoskeletal assessment and treatment skills, the ultrasound guided injection therapy module is for you.
You'll be taught by full-time clinicians working in the NHS and private sectors, in both point of care and radiology roles with a vast experience of performing these peripheral musculoskeletal techniques to a range of intra-articular and peri-articular structures over many years. This course does not cover nerve blocks or spinal procedures.
You will learn the core skill of performing common peripheral musculoskeletal ultrasound guided injection techniques, including the skills to visualise the needle and guide it accurately towards a specific structure.
You must be working in one of the following areas: General practitioner; Rheumatologist; Orthopaedics; Sports and Exercise Medicine; Neurologist; Anaesthetist; Emergency medicine; Physiotherapist; Paramedic; Nurse; Orthotist; Physician Associate.
Your full application should demonstrate that you have:
In addition, we require that you provide us with the following information in your application:
Whilst an interview is not required for this programme, to ascertain your suitability for the programme our departmental assessment team may request further information from you. This will be for the purposes of understanding your skills and experience in the assessment and diagnosis of the clinical conditions (generally neurological and/or musculoskeletal) that would benefit from injection-therapy, and to identify the benefit to patients/ service users in offering injection-therapy skills.
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Dynamic practical lectures will be delivered over two days covering needle visualisation and the performance of core techniques of the upper and lower limb. A further contact session will be scheduled to monitor student progress during their situated learning experience, and this will be delivered remotely. A further examination day will be set for a practical OSCE examination and the final submission of a logbook of supervised injection techniques.
An agreed mentor must be arranged prior to starting the course to supervise the performance of 20 ultrasound guided injections.
The clinical mentor must meet the following criteria
This course can be studied 4 months part-time, starting in January.
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
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