Continuing Professional Development

Advanced musculoskeletal assessment and practice

Aims

This pathway enables clinicians in the musculoskeletal field to advance their practice. All students will engage in material related to clinical decision making and there are options available to advance clinical skills including injection therapy and independent prescribing.

There is flexibility within this pathway for students to direct their learning to topics of personal interest.

Learning objectives

• Provide you with critical understanding of the key concepts underlying advanced musculoskeletal clinical skills beyond your normal professional scope of practice.
• Provide you with the opportunity to acquire advanced musculoskeletal clinical skills beyond your normal professional scope of practice.
• Provide you with skills to access and critically appraise research findings to develop your own evidence-based practice.
• Enhance your understanding of the essential principles of research design and to conduct an extensive piece of independent research including: planning, formulating, designing, choosing research methods, collecting data, analysing, interpreting and writing-up.
• Ensure you acquire a range of transferable employment related skills.

Outcomes

You can finish this pathway with one of three qualifications, depending on how many credits you complete:

• Postgraduate certificate (60 credits)
• Postgraduate diploma (120 credits)
• Master of Science (MSc) (180 credits)

Musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging

Aims

This pathway supports clinicians from a range of professional backgrounds to access musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging.

Students engage with the technical considerations that underpin this imaging modality prior to musculoskeletal scanning protocols. This face to face teaching occurs at weekends at the Southend campus. Students need a mentor to complete the clinical learning components of the PGCert.

The pathway includes optional modules covering ultrasound guided injections or service evaluation.

Learning objectives

• To provide students with critical understanding of the key concepts underlying musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging.
• To facilitate students’ acquisition of practical musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging skills.
• To ensure students acquire a range of transferable employment related skills.
• To enable students to evaluate and respond to professional considerations related to musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging.
• To provide students with skills to access and critically appraise research findings to develop their own evidence-based practice.
• To enhance students understanding of the essential principles of research design and to conduct an extensive piece of independent research including: planning, formulating, designing, choosing research methods, collecting data, analysing, interpreting and writing-up.

Outcomes

We offer three qualifications in this pathway, depending on the total number of "credits" you undertake:

• Postgraduate certificate (60 credits)
• Postgraduate diploma (120 credits)
• Master of Science (MSc) (180 credits)

Professional accreditation

Our PG Certificate, PG Diploma, and MSc are accredited by Consortium for the Accreditation of Sonographic Education (CASE).

Modules

Find out more about individual modules that make up our CPD courses.