University of St Andrews - Online

Course in Interprofessional Education: Design, Delivery and Assessment - Online

The Health Professions Education online stand-alone modules are for those interested in developing themselves in a health professions education role, and offers the flexibility of learning to suit those currently employed.

This module will explore the design, delivery, and assessment associated with interprofessional education.

This stand-alone module forms part of a full Health Professions Education online programme, which cultivates teaching practice that instils the principles and values of interprofessional education to support the development of the future and current healthcare workforce. The Health Professions Education programme can be studied at PGCert, PGDip, and MSc levels.

You will explore the most important considerations in designing, developing, and delivering your educational programmes.

Learn how to lead educational development and curriculum design, and evaluate the success of a curriculum, as well as how to iterate and improve on it. At the end of the course, you will be able to produce evidence-based proposals for your curriculum.

Highlights

• A fully online part-time module which offers flexibility of learning to suit those currently employed in a healthcare or academic setting.
• As an interprofessional and interdisciplinary programme, the stand-alone module provides opportunities to learn collaboratively about a range of educational contexts and teaching practices.
• Experiential and immersive learning opportunities mean learners undertaking the module can have a real-time experience of the concepts being taught.
• Award-winning learning technology infrastructure and support to provide innovative, interactive, and flexible learning and to support the student learning journey.
• Staff from a variety of disciplines and healthcare backgrounds with expertise and experience in educating healthcare professionals.
• 15 Credits at SCQF Level 11 awarded by the University of St Andrews and a certificate of award.

The module content will cover a range of approaches and methods of teaching, learning, and assessment where learners will engage in independent and group study. Aspects of the programme will be interprofessional and interdisciplinary, enabling learners to reflect on and share their own teaching and learning practices. The course will provide the opportunity to learn with, from, and about each other’s educational contexts.

Action learning sets will be utilised to bring a challenging or complex issue to discuss and share ideas for resolution. Learners will be able to develop a toolkit which should enhance their problem-solving abilities, critical thinking skills, and teaching strategies.

Academic staff in the School of Medicine provide expertise from a variety of disciplines and healthcare backgrounds. There is a wide range of experience in educating health professionals in a range of community and acute care settings, in interprofessional education, and in educational research. The School of Medicine has institutional memberships of the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) and the UK Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE).