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Degree and Programme Title PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare Supportive and Palliative Care PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare Surgical Pract

Annex C: Programme Specifications Template

Please note: This specification provides a concise summary of the main features of the

programme and the learning outcomes that a typical student might reasonably be expected to

achieve and demonstrate if he/she passes the programme More detailed information on the

learning outcomes, content and teaching, learning and assessment methods of each module

can be found [either by following the links provided or in the programme handbook delete as

applicable] The accuracy of the information contained in this specification is reviewed by the

University and may be checked by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education

Degree and Programme Title

PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Supportive and Palliative

Care)

PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Surgical Practice)

PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Minimally Invasive Surgery)

PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Applied Dental Professional

Practice)

1 Awarding Institution/Body University of Kent

2 Teaching Institution University of Kent

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

3 Teaching Site All campus locations and workplace settings

4 Programme accredited by

Specialist Healthcare (Relevant Subject Specialty)

Specialist Healthcare (Supportive and Palliative Care)

PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Surgical Practice )

PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Minimally Invasive Surgery)

PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Applied Dental Professional Practice)

7 UCAS Code (or other code)

8 Relevant QAA subject benchmarking

group(s)

Generic Masters degree characteristics document -

http://www.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastructure/benchmark/masters/MastersDegreeCharacteristics.pdf

Health Care Phase 1 & 2 benchmarks

-http://ww.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastructure/bemchmark/health/default.asp

Dentistry (Undergraduate) - The Dentistry

Subject Benchmark Statements have been taken into consideration in the writing of this programme to inform learning outcomes on the understanding that they strictly apply to Undergraduate programmes only.

Professional Body Guideline - The Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Programme

www.iscp.ac.uk/home/SpecialtySyllabus CoreSurgical Training (2010)

9 Date of production/revision Nov 2012

11 Educational Aims of the Programme

The programme aims to:

The programmes aims to address the following in relation to each specialty:

1 Foster the intellectual and professional development of experienced healthcare

practitioners to extend and deepen the analytical and critical reasoning powers which underpin practice (e.g in organisational leadership and change, health and welfare

systems, organisations and services and advanced technical procedures and practices)

2 Enhance the skills of experienced practitioners in multidisciplinary decision-making as well

as leadership in teams and deepen understanding of the dynamics of multidisciplinary working

3 Provide supervision for advanced practitioner centred research that builds a culture of evaluation and enquiry into the practice environment

4 Equip experienced practitioners for their role in challenging, questioning and realigning strategies for specialist practice

5 Develop confident senior practitioners who are able to participate in the development of practice, work effectively with organisational interests, evidence-based processes, and within complex multidisciplinary teams

6 Enable practitioners to critically evaluate their own area of practice informed by based research and grounded in self-reflection

evidence-7 Provide a culture of lifelong learning that values and respects practice as the context for building and testing theory to enhance services for patients /clients/ consumers/customers and their families

8 Enable experienced practitioners from a diverse range of educational backgrounds to access and participate in a multidisciplinary working environment

9 Support a programme of personal development that underpins practice development and personal planning

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12 Programme Outcomes

The programme provides opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate knowledgeand understanding, qualities, skills and other attributes in the following areas The programmeoutcomes are informed by the subject benchmarking statements stated in Section 8 of thisProgramme Specification

Knowledge and Understanding Teaching/learning and assessment

methods and strategies used to enable outcomes to be achieved and

demonstrated

A Knowledge and Understanding of:

1 Theories of reflective practice which will

equip the learner in delivering quality

services in health and social care settings

Teaching and Learning:

Teaching and Learning will be selected fromthe following modes and methods:

Lecture series supported activities such asstudent led seminars; problem-basedscenarios; role play, one to one tutorials,workshops, practical and clinical sessions,distance learning through the use of Moodle

Leadership styles inventories and planningtools; multi-agency visits

An action learning set where problem solvingapproaches are used including casework andco-consultancy Students will work to relevantprofessional interest/issues, being client, task

or work-based, using the experience to lead togreater mutual understanding of their rolewithin the organisation

Where applicable students will be encouraged

to identify workplace mentors, linemanagement support, and peer-support toidentify relevant professional interests/issues,being subject and client or task setting based,using profession-specific knowledge to lead togreater mutual understanding of role andfunction of specialist area of practice

Assessment:

Assessments will be made in the following ways: written assignments; project plan submission; oral presentations; course work assignments; seminar contribution;

dissertation, contribution to online activity i.e via Moodle, student forums

2 Leadership styles to develop theory and

skills appropriate to specialist areas of

practice

3 Strategic decision-making in healthcare

services and other health and social care

and organisational settings

4 A specialist area of practice with emphasis

on developing both the clinical skills and

skills to evaluate quality and assess

clinical or general practice

5 Critical analysis of models of care of

patients, clients, service users, customers

and consumers through evidence-based

practice

6 The learning process of collaborative

working in an area of specialist practice

7 Practice-based research and enquiry

underpinned by concepts of patient/client

assessment, such as critical analysis of

medical, health and social care factors

8 Theory-building and theory-testing in

professional practice including holistic

factors such as health or disease,

treatment and sociologic economic

factors

9 Data Management and the main statistical

principles and methods used in area of

practice

10 The key ethical and legal principles

governing area of practice

Where applicable the individual programmes have the following additional Programme Learning outcomes:

PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and

Specialist Healthcare (Supportive and

Palliative Care):

1 1 A critical understanding of the concepts

2 and models of supportive and palliative

3 care and an ability to connect these to

work place practice

4 2 Critical understanding of the models of

psychosocial care of people who are

dying or facing progressive disease and

an ability to apply these to work place

practice

PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and

Specialist Healthcare (Surgical Practice):

1 A critical understanding of the best

management of surgical patients in the

emergency situation and for their critical

care

2 A critical understanding of the

professional aspects of surgical practice

and the importance of education and

training

PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and

Specialist Healthcare ( Minimally Invasive

Surgery):

1 A critical understanding of the principles

and safety of laparoscopic surgery, to

include operations on the biliary and

gastrointestinal tracts, hernia repair and

the evolving techniques of minimally

invasive surgery

2 A critical understanding of the

professional aspects of surgical practice

and the importance of education and

training

PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and

Specialist Healthcare (Applied Dental

Professional Practice):

1 A critical understanding of the principles

and models of dental care provision and

an ability to connect these to individual

work place practice (AD1 in Mapping)

2 A critical understanding of the

professional aspects of the dental

professional practice and the importance

of continuous education, training and

development (AD2 in Mapping)

Skills and Other Attributes

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B Intellectual Skills:

1 Demonstrate critical and analytical

reasoning to review and analyse

contemporary practice

Teaching and Learning:

Teaching and Learning will be selected from the following modes and methods:

Analysis of problem-based scenarios;

presentation of seminar papers; critical group debate; work-based learning contract with agreed outcomes; supervision, portfolio formation with individualised personal planning

(i.e production of a personal and professional

portfolio of learning goals and within this personal planning linking theory to practice);

lectures and guidance on research project design; data collection and analysis; group work on research ethics and professional practical issues; practice symposium, allowing students from across pathways to demonstratehow they have put theory into practice

Assessment:

Assessments will be made in the following ways: written assignment; project plan submission; oral presentations; course work assignments; seminar contribution;

dissertation

2 Prepare and present clearly reasoned and

justified argument in securing practice

change and development

3 Apply work-based learning to

demonstrably enhance services

4 Develop a comprehensive professional

portfolio that identifies the utility of

intellectual skills in practice

5 Design and implement a programme of

practice-based enquiry

6 Collect and analyse data from practice to

inform evidence-based enquiry including

the statistical analysis of data

7 Undertake and report ethical analysis of

practice research project-plans

8 Understand the importance to

professionalism of positive critique,

response to feedback and reflective

practice

C Subject-specific Skills:

1 Demonstrate effective engagement in

team working appropriate to workplace

2 Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of

change management in healthcare

services/ practice

3. Develop new roles that support the

interface between the strategic aims of

service and practice

4 Present and argue an evidence based

case for service change and development

Where applicable the individual programmes have the following additional subject specific skills:

PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and

Specialist Healthcare (Supportive and

Palliative Care):

1 An ability to identify ethical issues in

support of the care of patients and the

support of their families/carers and work

towards resolution of ethical dilemmas

employing inter-professional resources,

including personnel

2. An ability to communicate effectively and

an awareness of the issues in

communication with people with complex

and advanced disease.

PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and

Specialist Healthcare (Surgical Practice):

1 The ability to manage emergency and

critically ill surgical patients safely

2 To maintain a professional practice in

surgery and to teach and train those who

are less experienced

PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and

Specialist Healthcare (Minimally Invasive

Surgery):

1 The ability to practice minimally invasive

surgery safely

2 To maintain a professional practice in

surgery and to teach and train those who

are less experienced

PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and

Specialist Healthcare (Applied Dental

Professional Practice):

1 The ability to carry out ethical professional

practice within a dental workplace setting

(CD1 in Mapping)

2 To maintain professional practice and

support the development of those who are

less experienced (CD 2 in Mapping)

D Transferable Skills:

1 Enable acquisition of skills of evaluation

and enquiry that support the practitioner in

making a contribution to professional

knowledge in their subject field

Teaching and Learning:

IT and training will be provided by library staff; study skills (delivered through UELT)

Assessment:

Assessments will be made by oral presentations; coursework; seminar contribution

2 Ability to design and implementation of a

research programme with a clear analysis of

the outcomes and recommendations for future

action

3 Clear and detailed reporting and

accounting for the implementation and

outcomes of an applied development project

4 Skilled utilisation of action learning set

approaches to solve problems and identify

solutions

5 Effective use of work-based learning to

establish a future personal plan within the

context of lifelong professional development

6 Use of supervision to inform and enhance

learning approaches in the workplace

7 To communicate with clarity in academic

settings and in professional / work place

settings

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8 Show evidence of critical self-reflection and

the ability to enhance professional

competence on the basis of feedback

For more information on which modules provide which skills, see the module mapping

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14 Programme Structures and Requirements, Levels, Modules, Credits and Awards

This PG Cert/PG Diploma/MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare provides clinical and non-clinical healthcare staff with a flexible postgraduate qualification designed to meet their personal and professional needs It will enable professionals to augment and evaluate the evidence base for their practice in order to improve practice and raise standards generally.This PG Cert/PG Diploma/MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare provides clinical and non-clinical healthcare staff with a flexible postgraduate qualification designed to meet their personal and professional needs It will enable professionals to augment and evaluate the evidence base for their practice in order to improve practice and raise standards generally.The principles that inform the programme are as follows:

• An action-based, problem-solving approach to learning, combined with the reality of

practice, which will provide the appropriate stimulus and framework for learning

• The key to learning is through inquiry, reflection, evaluation and research

• An emphasis on the integration of theory and practice in order that learners structure concepts when thinking and making professional judgements in their practice

These three principles are expressed in the programme through its emphasis on collaborative evidence based practice; subject specific contextualised learning and action based

enquiry/research

Programme Structure

The PG Cert/PGDiploma/MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare programme is part-time and studied over a minimum of two, or more usually over 3 years (one stage of 60 credits per academic year) or up to five academic years (for S&P Care pathway)

The programme is multidisciplinary and there are opportunities for students from across a variety of disciplines to study together and share practice through core modules There are fourpathways within the award each comprising core modules and compulsory or optional modules specific to each pathway The pathways are as follows:

• PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Supportive and Palliative Care) This programme will usually be completed in 3 years but students may seek to take longer (5 years option) S&P Care students will register for the PG Certificate and then on successful completion register for the PG Diploma and on successful completion register for the MSc (all subject to availability) S&P Care students are expected to complete a minimum of 30 credits in any one academic year Students may negotiate on an individual basis to complete the qualification over 3 years with approval from the Programme Director

• PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Surgical Practice) Usually completed in 3 years, including dissertation

• PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Minimally Invasive Surgery) Usually completed in 3 years including dissertation

• PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Applied Dental Professional

Practice) Usually completed in 3 years including dissertation.

Exceeding these periods is likely to attract an additional fee

Core Teaching

Teaching on the generic sections of the core modules will be shared between the Pathway Directors, and Centre for Professional Practice staff with appropriate experience

The following is required with regard to the Core Modules:

• To complete the MSc all four Core modules (WL 830, WL 840, WL 831 and WL899) must

Subject Specific Teaching

Whilst students will study together on core modules, learning from the cores will be

contextualised to the students own specialty with subject specific teaching In addition

assignments will reflect a student’s own specialty

Learning and Teaching

The learning and teaching strategy of the programme is one that values the students existing knowledge and experience Students are encouraged to be independent self-managed learnerswho constantly apply new knowledge to their practice setting

The programme includes a variety of learning activities depending upon the modules studied such as small group work, seminars, one-to-one tutorials, workshops, practical/clinical sessionsand distance learning through the use of the University’s Moodle system The core modules are designed to enable students from across each of the programme pathways to study

together as well as in their pathway group

Subject specific modules will be studied at a time and place appropriate to the programme pathway, i.e modules from the MSc in Minimally Invasive Surgery will be offered at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust’s, International Minimal Access Centre for Surgery (IMACS) Assessment

The assessment strategies for the programmes within the PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc Advanced and Specialist Healthcare framework are designed to support the development of academic and professional practice Participants will be expected to show novel and fresh approaches in theirapplication of knowledge to their practice The assessment methods used are designed to show the depth and breadth of experiential knowledge and the relation this has to participant’s professional practice

Some modules that include practical clinical skills may require practical demonstration of skills and knowledge

Completion of the MSc

The programme has been developed to suit the individual professional needs of a variety of health care professions and as such the different pathways, and time taken to complete a particular pathway, is also reflective of professional requirements However, it is necessary to note that University Credit Framework Section 5.1 and 5.2

http://www.kent.ac.uk/teaching/qa/credit-framework/creditinfo.html

which specifically details that, in order to remain eligible for an award of MSc, the maximum time a student must complete their programme of study within is: PG Certificate 4 years, PG Diploma 6 years and Masters Degree 6 years These time limits include any periods of

intermission and any period of time in which a student is repeating part of the programme of

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study and apply to both full time and part time students Programme specifications specify the normal period of time over which the programme will be completed.

Any student failing to complete their programme of study within these time limits will be in eligible for an award of MSc

Stage 1 Postgraduate Certificate: In Stage 1 students undertake core modules plus modules

specific to each programme pathway totalling 60 M level credits The core modules are

designed to include general and subject specific teaching and learning

Students who successfully complete Stage 1 of the programme and meet the credit framework requirements but exit after Stage 1 or do not successfully complete Stage 2 will be eligible for the award of PG Certificate

Supportive and Palliative Care 5 Year Pathway - students will complete 30 credits in one

academic year or periods of annual registration and take two years or two periods of annual registration to complete Stage 1 of the PG Certificate before registering to progress onto the

PG Diploma (subject to availability)

Stage 2 Postgraduate Diploma: In Stage 2 students undertake core modules appropriate to

the pathway plus optional modules specific to each programme pathway totalling 60 M level credits The core modules are designed to include general and subject specific teaching and

learning

Students who successfully complete Stage 2 of the programme and meet the credit framework requirements but exit after Stage 2 or do not successfully complete Stage 3 will be eligible for the award of PG Diploma

Supportive and Palliative Care 5 Year Pathway - students will complete 30 credits in one

academic year or period of annual registration and take two years (or periods of annual

registration) to successfully complete Stage 2 of the PG Diploma before registering to progress onto Stage 3 the MSc (subject to availability)

Stage 3 MSc:

In Stage 3 students undertake a core module of 60 level M credits Students who successfully complete Stage 3 of the Programme meet the requirements of the University’s credit

framework, will be eligible for the award of:

• MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Supportive and Palliative Care)

• MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Minimally Invasive Surgery)

• MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Applied Dental Professional Practice)

• MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Surgical Practice)

Supportive and Palliative Care students will complete Stage 3 in one academic year

The combined detail of the total programme is outlined below The specific detail for individual pathways are detailed below:

• Supportive and Palliative Care (5 years) – Fig 1

• Supportive and Palliative Care (3 years) – Fig 2

• Minimal Invasive Surgery (2-3 years) – Fig 3

• Applied Dental Professional Practice – Fig 4

• Surgical Practice – Fig 5

Fig 1 Supportive and Palliative (S&P) Care Module Model (5 Year Model)

Stage 1

Core Modules:

Optional Pathway Modules:

In Stage 1 Year 1 Support and Palliative Care students will take 1 x 15 credits optional module from those

optional modules detail below –subject to availability

In Stage 1 Year 2 Support and Palliative Care students will take 1 x 15 credits optional module from those

remaining optional modules detail below –subject to availability

Pathway Optional Modules:

Exit point PG Cert in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Supportive and Palliative Care)

Stage 2

Core Module:

Pathway Optional Modules

In Stage 2 Year 3 Support and Palliative Care students will Students will select 2 x 15 credits optional

modules (subject to availability) which were not previously completed for Stage 1

In Stage 2 Year 3 Support and Palliative Care students will Students will select 1 x 15 credits optional module

(subject to availability) from those which were not previously completed for Stage 1 or Stage 2 Year 3

Pathway Optional Modules:

Exit point PG Dip in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Supportive and Palliative Care)

Stage 3

Core Module:

This stage will be taken in a single academic year from Spring until November.

Exit point MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Supportive and Palliative Care)

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Fig 2 Supportive and Palliative (S&P) Care Module Model (3 Year Model)

Stage 1 – Completed in 1 academic year

Core Modules:

Pathway Optional Modules:

In Stage 1 Support and Palliative Care students will take 2 x 15 credit l modules from those optional modules detail below (subject to availability)

Pathway Optional Modules:

Exit point PG Cert in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Supportive and Palliative Care)

Stage 2

Core Module:

Pathway Optional Modules:

In Stage 2 (Year 2) Support and Palliative Care students will Students will select 3 x 15 credits optional modules (subject to availability) from those which were not previously completed for Stage 1

Pathway Optional Modules:

Exit point PG Dip in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Supportive and Palliative Care)

Stage 3 (Year 3) – MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Supportive and Palliative Care)

This stage will be taken in a single academic year from Spring until November.

Core Module:

Exit point MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Supportive and Palliative Care)

Fig 3 Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) Module Model

Stage 1 – Completed in 1 academic year

Core Modules

Pathway Core Modules:

(Principles and Practices)

Exit point PG Cert in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (MIS)

Stage 2 Completed in 1 academic year

Core Module:

Pathway Core Modules:

(Training Methods & Speciality Procedures)

Plus one of the pathway Optional modules(subject to availability):

Exit point PG Dip in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (MIS)

Stage 3

This stage will be taken in a single academic year from Spring until November

Should students wish to complete the programme in 2 years then module WL 899 would be taken concurrently with Stage 2 modules

Core Module.

Exit point MSc in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (MIS)

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Fig 4 Applied Dental Professional Practice Module Model

Stage 1 – Year 1

Core Modules:

Core Pathway Modules:

Exit point PG Cert in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Applied Dental Professional Practice)

Stage 2 Year 2

Core Modules:

Plus one of the Optional pathway modules (subject to availability):

Fig 5 Surgical Practice Module Model

Stage 1

Core Modules

Pathway Core Modules:

Exit point PG Cert in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Surgical Practice)

Stage 2

Core Module

Pathway Core Modules

Exit point PG Dip in Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Surgical Practice)