Overview
This microcredential is aimed at all healthcare professionals with an interest in respiratory medicine working in a hospital setting, for example respiratory registrars, academic clinical fellows, specialist nurses, who are required to develop competencies in the management of respiratory disorders to an advanced level.
The course will provide accredited certification and validation of competencies including skills to enable autonomous practice in dealing with more complex problems and the ability to critically evaluate current research in the field of respiratory disease. An independent learning process will allow you to continue to advance your knowledge and understanding of respiratory disease.
This 8 week core microcredential that occurs in semester 2 and as with the community microcredential there is a blend of teaching methods, including clinical exposure. The face to face sessions will take place either at the University or in hospitals, which will enable you to experience practical sessions such as ventilator application. The topic areas covered in depth include:
1. Cystic Fibrosis
2. Tuberculosis
3. Respiratory Failure
4. Interstitial lung disease
5. Pulmonary vascular disease
6. Fungal lung disease
7. Lung cancer
8. Pleural diseases
9. Service development and Quality improvement
Course dates
3, 10, 18, 21, 25 February,
3, 7, 11, 18, 21, 25 March,
4 April,
2, 16 and 20 May
Assessment
The module is assessed with a short answer question (SAQ) examination and a written essay on service design and quality improvement in a particular disease area.
Academics involved in the delivery of this module
Module Lead:
Dr Mike Newnham
Other academics involved in the delivery of the module:
Entry requirements
BSc or equivalent professional degree in a relevant subject area (biomedical or medical) and clinical experience.
Please contact Dr Mike Newnham for further information.
You can choose to study this course as either a microcredential or a non-credit CPD shortcourse.
Why choose a Postgraduate Microcredential short course?
- 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.
Learners will be fully registered University of Birmingham students and will be entitled to normal University services (including library and digital resources).
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