This course will be taught by a blended learning approach with students doing a mixture of self directed and directed distance learning, combined with 5 days of intensive directed learning on campus. The module will require students to critically assess the evidence behind the management of solid tumours. Multidisciplinary approaches to perioperative care will be discussed, and the principles of surgical management, recent advances and future perspectives will be taught.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course you should be able to:
- Critically discuss the evidence for and current best practice in the surgical management of a range of tumour types, e.g. GI, Gynae, Urological, breast, hepatobiliary
- Evaluate the issues involved in perioperative care and discuss the role of the multidisciplinary team members in helping to resolve these
- Critically discuss recent advances in surgical management, minimal access technique and modern imaging technologies
- Demonstrate an awareness of the future prospective of cancer management by surgery and where this fits into cancer management strategies as a whole.
Method of teaching
Blended learning with distance learning, e-lectures available in advance, 4 days of face to face tutorials and lectures.
Attendance Required
Distance learning materials will be made available. There will also be 4 days of face to face sessions.
Course dates
9-12 June
Assessment
Oral presentation plus 2000 word written assignment.
Academics involved in the delivery of this module
Mrs Olga Tucker, Upper GI Surgeon
Stand Alone Option
This module can be taken as a stand alone course if required. For further information please contact:
Programme Administrator
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3803
Email: clinicaloncology@contacts.bham.ac.uk
This module is available without the assessment/credits if preferred.
Entry requirements if taken as a stand alone course
2:1 degree and clinical experience
You can choose to study this course as either a microcredential or a non-credit CPD shortcourse.
Why choose a Postgraduate Microcredential short course?
- Microcredentials offer the perfect opportunity to boost your CV without the committment of a full-degree
- Usually taken from exisiting modules within a Masters, they can be used as standalone credentials with some also counting as academic credits at postgraduate level
- Add a postgraduate level qualification to your CV
- Develop the specialist skills you need for your career goals
- Alumni status with the University of Birmingham
- Learners will have the same access to our student support and campus facilities as our students on full degree programmes.
Please note that once registered for the microcredential you cannot swap for the non-credit shortcourse version.
Apply for the Microcredential
Non-credit short course
The microcredential and the non-credit short course follow the same course structure, the difference between them both is with the non-credit short course you do not take the assessment at the end therefore you will not receive credits but will recieve a certificate of completion, this certificate cannot be converted to credits.
Please note if you apply for the non-credit short course, you cannot swap to the microcredential version once registered.
Apply for the non-credit CPD shortcourse