SE761-7-AP-CO:
First Contact Musculoskeletal Practice
2022/23
Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences (School of)
Colchester Campus
Autumn & Spring
Postgraduate: Level 7
Current
Thursday 06 October 2022
Friday 24 March 2023
30
07 October 2022
Requisites for this module
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CER B16FMO First Contact Musculoskeletal Practice
This module will explore the key skills required to achieve competence as a First Contact Musculoskeletal Practitioner. It is suitable for clinicians already working in First Contact Practitioner (FCP) roles within primary care or for those working towards a future FCP role.
The module will commence with four weeks of learning via our online learning platform, Moodle. This will be followed by 3 consecutive days of teaching delivered using Zoom.
This module will enable students to identify their learning needs in relation to the skills required to commence or improve in a First Contact musculoskeletal role.
The taught content and assessment strategies will provide tools for students to address and meet these learning needs in line with Stage 1 of the ‘First Contact Practioners and Advanced Practitioners in Primary Care: (Musculoskeletal) A Roadmap to Practice’(1)
Reference:
(1) Health Education England (2020) First Contact Practitioners and Advanced Practitioners in Primary Care: (Musculoskeletal) A Roadmap to Practice Available at: https://www.hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/A%20Roadmap%20to%20Practice.pdf
It is expected that the student will meet the following outcomes:
1. Demonstrate an advanced knowledge of patient assessment, clinical reasoning and decision making relevant to a musculoskeletal first contact role, including choice of appropriate investigations, treatment, care planning (including onward referral as appropriate).
2. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the role of the wider determinants of health within a musculoskeletal first contact role, including return to work, health promotion, prevention and lifestyle interventions, social prescribing, self-management and behaviour change.
3. Demonstrate the ability to critically reflect on your personal professional, developmental and educational needs in relation to embarking on or fulfilling a musculoskeletal first contact role.
4. Demonstrate an advanced level of communication and person-centred care relevant to a musculoskeletal first contact role.
5. Demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate the role of evidence based practice and service development within a musculoskeletal first contact role, including approaches to service design, planning, and measurement of value and impact within primary care.
Taught sessions online (including forum discussions) and in real time via Zoom (including lectures, seminars, workshops, case studies, group work and peer discussion) will cover topics including:
* Personalised approaches
* Communication
* Personalised care
* Assessment, investigation and diagnosis
* History-taking
* Physical Assessment
* Investigations and diagnosis
* Condition management, interventions and prevention
* Prevention and lifestyle intervention
* Self-management and behaviour change
* Pharmacotherapy
* Injection Therapy
* Surgical interventions
* Rehabilitative interventions
* Interventions and care management
* Referrals and collaborative work
* Service and professional development
* Evidence-based practice and service development
Learning and teaching methods will include a combination of e-learning and face to face teaching including lectures, seminars, case studies, group work, peer discussion and development of a personal development plan. A blended learning approach is utilised.
During the four allocated weeks for e-learning, students are expected to dedicate the equivalent of one day a week in time to this element of module. Monitoring of on-line discussion forums by the module lead will take place each week. Face to face teaching will be delivered via Zoom over three consecutive days, 20 hours, with some teaching conducted by external experts as appropriate.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Coursework weighting |
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Presentation |
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50% |
| Coursework |
Portfolio |
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50% |
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Portfolio - resubmission |
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Mrs Caroline Kerry, email: cpkerr@essex.ac.uk.
Caroline Kerry, Dr Sue Innes, Dr Alwin Sebastian, Sarah Golding, Graeme Payne, Philip Nardone
cpkerr@essex.ac.uk
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Mr Myles Butler
Sheffield Hallam University
Senior Lecturer Team Lead
Available via Moodle
Of 24 hours, 0 (0%) hours available to students:
24 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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