Advanced Paediatric Clinical Management Skills

Program Overview

This 8-month, part-time program equips healthcare professionals with advanced clinical management skills for complex pediatric cases. Through interactive lectures, simulations, and problem-based learning, participants develop expertise in communication, assessment, and decision-making. The program aligns with national requirements for advanced practice and is designed in collaboration with NHS trusts and healthcare providers.

Program Outline

Advanced Paediatric Clinical Management Skills

Degree Overview:

This level 7, 8-month, part-time module

equips healthcare professionals with the skills to manage complex pediatric cases. The program focuses on advanced communication, clinical assessment, examination, and clinical decision-making and management in children's care. You'll learn to critically analyze, synthesize, and review care decisions while considering medico-legal, ethical, moral, and safeguarding principles. The curriculum aligns with national requirements for advanced practice and is developed in collaboration with local NHS trusts and healthcare providers.

Outline:

• Delivered fully face-to-face at City Campus via interactive lectures, simulations, and problem-based learning.
• 90 hours of contact time with additional self-directed study.
• Typical schedule:
• Tuesdays:
• 9:00-11:00: Epidemiology of common and rare conditions, diagnostic criteria, and assessment tools.
• 11:30-13:30: Assessment, treatment, and management planning theory.
• 14:00-16:00: Clinical assessment theory and practice via simulated patient interactions.
• Assessments:
• Assignment:
analyze a complex pediatric case, review care decisions and interventions, identify key decision-making components, discuss ethical and legal aspects, and justify clinical actions taken in a written report.
• OSCE: demonstrate consultation, clinical history, advanced physical assessment, diagnostic reasoning, and management skills in a 25-minute single-station OSCE.
• Topics covered:
• Introduction to mastery and academic writing.
• Medico-legal law for advanced practice.
• Diagnostic reasoning.
• Consultation skills.
• Introduction to X-ray and blood results interpretation.
• Clinical assessment skills.
• Cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, MSK, neurological, ENT systems.

Assessment:

• Analyzes a complex pediatric case.
• Reviews care decisions and interventions.
• Identifies key components of decision-making.
• Discuss ethical and legal considerations.
• Justifies clinical actions in a written report.
• OSCE assesses consultation, clinical history, advanced physical assessment, diagnostic reasoning, and management skills.

Teaching:

• Uses lectures, simulations, and problem-based learning.
• Offers access to specialist pediatric lecturers for individual support.
• Clinical skills seminars held in the Science Complex with its Living Lab for patient simulations.

Careers:

• Can be studied as a standalone CPD option for healthcare professionals wanting to become Advanced Clinical Practitioners with NHS England.
• Can be part of the MSc Advanced Clinical Practitioner apprenticeship.

Other:

• Students from different disciplines collaborate.
• Program fees are £840, typically covered by employers.
• Self-funded options available.