Advanced Clinical Practice, MSc  Advanced Clinical Practice, MSc Teesside University ../webroot/files/Institutions/cover_photo/1567070427Teesside-University-1.jpg

This course has been designed to allow you to study the core aspects of advanced practice with varying degrees of focus on your area of clinical speciality. It enables you to develop advanced clinical skills of evidence-based approaches to practice. It is inter-disciplinary in approach and provides a choice of modules to study in your own area of practice, whilst developing core transferable skills relevant to advanced clinical practice. Cross-cutting themes include the development of advanced clinical decision-making skills, the ability to develop research-informed practice, the development of autonomous advanced practice and leadership skills. Programme development has been informed by the Skills for Health Teams Competency framework for the role of advanced practitioner (2009). This course has been developed in response to local and national agendas regarding the increased role of primary care and the development of practitioners with special interests. Practitioners are increasingly encouraged to develop advanced clinical skills and enhance their abilities as autonomous practitioners, for example physiotherapists, occupational therapists, diagnostic radiographers, podiatrists, dieticians and nurses. This course is responsive to the NHS modernisation agenda which calls for new ways of working and role redesign. The course: further develops knowledge and skills to an advanced level in a specific area of clinical practice develops a comprehensive and critical understanding of research methodologies and their use in creating clinical evidence as well as strategies for locating and appraising evidence develops autonomous advanced clinical decision-making skills to apply to practice develops the intellectual and professional independence associated with mastery develops leadership skills to facilitate the assimilation and dissemination of new knowledge and skills and innovative practice. What you study The course combines core modules with a variety of specialist clinical modules. Clinical modules are selected from a range of designated options available as part of our master's level course provision in the pathway handbook, where you can apply your advanced skills to your own area of practice. You will also have the opportunity to choose a master?s-level option from the Education and Training Opportunities CPD brochure. Your final year will provide you with the opportunity to carry out an independent research study. How you learn Learning and teaching methods include lectures, seminars, problem-based learning, practical workshops, e-learning and self-directed study and reflection. Academic support and guidance will be provided by the pathwayprogramme leader, module leader and personal tutor on request. The core research modules (Evidence-based Practice and Designing Research Projects) are also available online for you to study at a distance. The electronic resources available within these modules allow you to adopt a mixed approach to your learning. This can allow flexibility where your attendance might be difficult due to professional or personal circumstances. This course allows practitioners to develop expertise in diverse clinical specialities, thus expanding their roles and responsibilities as a response to modernisation in health and social care. The aims of this course are to: ? extend your knowledge and skills to a specialist level in a specific area of clinical practice ? develop a comprehensive and critical understanding of research methodologies and their use in creating clinical evidence as well as strategies for locating and appraising evidence for use in practice ? develop high levels of autonomy and advanced clinical decision-making skills and apply them to your practice setting ? develop the intellectual and professional independence associated with mastery.