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Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Clinical Practice

Ireland

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What will I learn?

The PGCert/Graduate Certificate in Advanced Clinical Practice is designed to enhance graduates’ critical thinking and develop evidence-based practitioners as future leaders of effective services. Students select from a wide range of elective modules (from project management to intercultural care) to fit their specific practice needs. Graduates will obtain in-depth knowledge of an area of Health Sciences to apply to their professional practice.

The PG Cert in Advanced Clinical Practice is designed to expand existing professional knowledge and to produce high quality evidence based practitioners who are better positioned to develop their individual disciplines as well as the wider health agenda. The programme will offer participants the opportunity to critically examine and reflect on their own practice and to implement mechanisms of change to enhance current practice.

This is a programme individually tailored to your professional needs. Rather than a prescribed course of study, you complete a core module on evidence-based practice or research methods, and we then work to identify other modules that suit you needs, ranging from project management, lean thinking and leadership to intercultural care and applied psychology, with many other options in between. The Independent Learning Module provides the option for you to put forward a specialist topic and receive one-to-one supervision to research that. The output you produce from this module can be tailored to your requirements: e.g. a clinical guideline, an evidence summary, a mini dissertation or a suite of resources, amongst other things. This programme can then lead into the Master of Science in Advanced Healthcare Practice, which follows the same practitioner-focused course design.

Tell us what you need to know, and we will help you become the expert in that area.

Objectives: Graduates will obtain in-depth knowledge of an area of Health Sciences to apply to their professional practice. They will reflect critically on their own and others’ learning styles and practice.

Programme Aims:

To discuss professional issues relating to the provision of healthcare services
To examine the different sectors of patients/clients, service providers and models of service, and their differing needs
To source, critically appraise and synthesise the most up-to-date research
To acquire an advanced level of clinical reasoning and critical thinking
To develop advanced level assessment and identification of service need in the student’s area of clinical practice
To integrate research knowledge with clinical expertise and patient preference to establish the means of providing cost-effective, high quality clinical services​

Which department am I in?

Faculty of Education and Health Sciences

Study options

Online/Distance with attendance (1 semester)

Tuition fees
€6,880.00 (US$ 7,433) per year
EU Part time fees: €1,904; non-EU Part time fees: €6,880

*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution

Start date

9 September 2024

Venue

University of Limerick

Limerick,

Republic of Ireland

Entry requirements

For international students

Healthcare clinicians with a professionally and academically accredited BSc (Hons) (level 8 National Qualifications Authority of Ireland recognised) or equivalent in a health profession* at a minimum award of 2.2 hons level or above.

*Health profession such as; Doctors, Nurses, Health and Social Care Professionals. Health and Social Care Professionals encompasses the list of professions regulated under the Health and Social Care Professions Act (2005) Ireland. These are clinical biochemist; dietician; medical scientist; occupational therapist; orthoptist; physiotherapist; podiatrist; psychologist; radiographer; social care worker; social worker; speech and language therapist. Other health professionals (e.g., paramedic, dentist) may be admitted on approval from the course director.

Acceptable English Language qualifications include the following:

Matriculation examinations from European countries where English is presented as a subject and an acceptable level is achieved
Irish Leaving Certificate English –Ordinary Level Grade D or above
TOEFL – 580 (paper based) or 90 (internet based)
IELTS – composite score 6.5 and not less than 6 in any one component.
English Test for English and Academic Purposes (ETAPP) – Grade C1
GCE ‘O’ level English Language/GCSE English Language – Grade C or above
Cambridge Assessment English –Certificate of Proficiency in English - Grade C / Certificate in Advanced English Grade B
GCE Examination Boards – Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations – Grade C / Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate – School Certificate Pass 1-6 / University of London Entrance and School Examinations Council – School Certificate Pass 1-6

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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