Explore our Pre-hospital Critical Care taught course

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1 year part-time

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Warwick Medical School

University of Warwick

This course is aimed primarily at doctors, nurses, paramedics and AHPs who work within acute, emergency and critical care environments such as Emergency Departments, Intensive Care Units and Ambulance Services. It is ideal for those practitioners who are developing their scope of practice towards an autonomous role.

The course is modular and organised in blocks of study lasting between four and six days at a time, which can be consecutive days within the same week or spread out over several weeks.

You will study the following modules:

• Critical Care Transfer
• Advanced Emergency Practice
• Special Incident Management

Skills from this degree

This is an interactive programme. You will learn through lectures and seminars, practical group work and guided reading. You will benefit from guided discussions and have the opportunity to practice the skills you have learnt during the sessions.

On completion of the three mandatory modules you will be awarded a Postgraduate Certificate. If you decide you would like to pursue further study you can put your certificate towards a Master's qualification.

Teaching is through seminars and lectures and includes a dissertation - an extensive piece of work that you will choose, research and write with individual supervision from your tutor.

Class sizes will vary, however on average they comprise of 20-25 students.

Contact Hours

Modules are assessed by written assignment or a combination of oral presentation and written assignment.

Your dissertation will need to be an original work of 15,000-20,000 words on a topic agreed with your supervisor.

Reading lists

Most departments have reading lists available through Warwick Library. If you would like to view reading lists for the current cohort of students you can visit our Warwick Library web pageLink opens in a new window.

Your timetable

Your personalised timetable will be complete when you are registered for all modules, listing your allocated lectures, seminars, and other small group classes. Your compulsory modules will be registered for you when you join us.

Applicants should:

• Be in a clinical post at Band 6 or above in a trainee ACP post or similar
• Have current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, Health Care Professionals Council or Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Hold a BSc degree at 2nd class level, or evidence of Level 7 study.

Those without the academic qualifications will have a telephone interview with the course director for a special case request to be made.

• Band A
• With specific component scores of 6.5 in reading and writing.

There are no additional entry requirements for this course.

Critical Care Transfer

• 2 x 1,000-word written clinical reflections
• 4 x 15-minute Case Base Examination

Advanced Emergency Practice

• 4 x 15-minute Case Based Examination
• 2 x 1,000-word written assignment

Special Incident Management

• 2,000-word case study
• 1 x poster/ infographic

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International qualifications

We welcome applications from students with other internationally recognised qualifications although students will need to be practicing in the UK.

For more information, please visit the international entry requirements page.