Program Overview
This advanced professional development course provides comprehensive knowledge of the medical care of older people, encompassing physical, psychological, and social perspectives. It explores the mechanisms of health and disease in older individuals, promoting shared learning experiences and multidisciplinary team working. With a blended learning approach, the course offers various assessment methods, including case presentations, written assignments, and multiple-choice exams.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
This course is a stand-alone professional development course that offers an advanced understanding of the medical care of older people. It aims to develop knowledge of the mechanisms of health and disease in older people, encompassing physical, psychological, and social perspectives. The course is designed for health and social care professionals working in primary and secondary care and promotes shared learning experiences and multidisciplinary team working.
Objectives:
- Develop an advanced understanding of the medical care of older people.
- Enhance knowledge of the mechanisms of health and disease in older people, encompassing physical, psychological, and social perspectives.
- Understand why older people have specific and unique health needs and how these needs can be met.
- Investigate the changing demographics of the ageing population and consider how society must adapt for an increasing number of older people.
- Enhance knowledge of contemporary models of understanding old age, frailty, and the factors involved in conducting a comprehensive geriatric assessment.
- Consider the atypical presentation of older people with an acute physical illness, focusing on falls, immobility, incontinence, and confusion.
- Cover polypharmacy and practical procedures such as urinary catheterisation.
- Support informed decision-making to improve patient outcomes.
- Explore complex issues of healthcare in older people through case examples and facilitated class discussion.
Assessment:
- Case presentations
- Written assignments
- Multiple-choice question (MCQ) exams
Teaching:
- Blended learning approach
- Lecture series with interactive case-based discussions
- Problem-solving and class discussions
- Prescriptive reading to revise and expand on lecture content
- Web-based learning resources via Moodle (the University’s virtual learning environment)
- Practical procedures taught in a simulated learning setting
Careers:
- Academic progression in the specialist field of geriatric medicine.
Other:
- The course is part of a professional development framework and credits gained can be used towards the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (Geriatric Medicine).
- The University of Bolton has been offering high-quality courses designed to meet the health and social care sector’s needs for over 30 years.
- The course curriculum is reviewed regularly to ensure it includes and applies contemporary theories.
- On successful completion of this course, you'll be awarded an Advanced Professional Development qualification in Advanced Clinical Practice in Geriatric Medicine worth 20 credits at Level HE7.
- The course is designed to provide flexibility to fit in with busy home and working lives.
- The course encourages the development of skills, values, and behaviours popular with employers, including action planning, personal impact and confidence, self-awareness, social and ethical responsibility, problem-solving, initiative, and communication skills.
- The course is subject to the University of Bolton's Fitness to Practise procedure.
- The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver the course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course.
- The university considers changes to courses very carefully and will minimise any changes.
- Courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis and changes may be necessary due to legitimate staffing, financial, regulatory, and academic reasons.
Home students starting this course in the first year will be required to pay a Home fee of £800 for the academic year 2024/25. Overseas students starting this course in the first year will be required to pay a Overseas fee of £800 for the academic year 2024/25.
