Prospective Students - Continuing Professional Development

Medical and Clinical Education

PG Certificate/PG Diploma/MSc

Medical and Clinical Education (MaCE) was developed in response to requests from local GPs, nurses and allied health professionals. The desire of these practitioners to develop their teaching and assessing skills, and to pursue an accredited programme, reflects the increasing recognition of the value of work based learning in professional education.

The programme provides students with systematic and critical understanding of the key concepts underlying learning, teaching and assessing in the medical and clinical practice environment. It enables health care professionals to acquire advanced skills in teaching and assessing students in a medical and clinical practice context.

This is a modularised pathway and students can choose to study part-time between 2 and 5 years. The programme is outlined below. Teaching contributions are drawn from expertise across the University’s academic departments and many modules are supported by Moodle. The programme is outlined here.

For further information on the start dates for the modules, please go to the Module Calendar.

Please click here for module directory where you will find further information about specific modules.

The programmes aims to:

• Enable health care professionals to apply their understanding of educational, legal and ethical frameworks and healthcare policy to enable others to learn and enhance their own professional practice, thereby providing positive role models for their students.
• Facilitate health care professionals to engage in quality enhancement and to improve students’ learning experiences.
• Ensure heath care professionals acquire a range of transferable employment related skills, most importantly, independent learning skills for continuing professional development.
• Create flexible, inter-professional learning pathways to develop educators for the clinical professions

Entry Criteria

• Current registration with a relevant professional regulatory body
• A relevant first degree, or equivalent e.g. professional experience and responsibility
• Current involvement in teaching and assessing in practice, plus 3 years healthcare experience
• For non-native speakers of English, an IELTS score of 6.5 or a TOEFL score of 580/240.
• Applicants wishing to achieve NMC Practice Teacher or Teacher qualifications must supply on application:
  - A statement of support from their service manager
  - The name of the practice teacher or teacher that will be supporting their practice learning
  - Evidence of successful completion of a mentor preparation programme or equivalent

It should be noted that midwife applicants will not be able to meet the NMC Teacher standards

Documents needed for application:

(All Word documents)

Learning and teaching strategies

The programme is designed to be inter-professional and is suitable for doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, or any other healthcare professional involved in teaching and assessing in practice.

The teaching is delivered through face to face lectures and tutorials; and through Moodle.

Assessment

Assessment is by portfolio, essay, work based project.

Professional Accreditation

The pathway is mapped against Nurse Teacher, GP Associate Trainer, GP Trainer, Physiotherapist Clinical Educator (ACE) and Occupational Therapy practice placement (APPLE) learning outcomes.

Funding

Tuitions fees for these modules and programmes can be funded in a variety of ways:

• Employer-Funded
• Self-Funded
• Payment by a Charitable Trust

If you are employed through an NHS organisation within the Midlands and East of England, we currently have an annual contract with the Midlands and East of England NHS. As part of this contract  they support staff development through educational courses and programmes of study.

If you hoping to receive assistance with funding and are employed in this way, please check with your employer to see if funding is available before accepting a place on the course.

Details of the fees can be found here.

For further information, please contact: