Critical Care

Entry requirements

The programme is open to doctors, nurses and allied health professionals. Doctors require completion of the basic foundation programme or equivalent.

The entry requirements are:

1. A relevant health professional qualification
2. Current or recent employment within a critical care setting
3. Normally a minimum of one to two years' experience in critical care practice
4. IELTS score as per Glasgow University standard for candidates whose first language is not English.

Months of entry

September

Course content

The care of critically ill patients is a challenging and highly specialised area of health care practice. The polio pandemic in the 1950s led to the birth of the modern Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Another pandemic (Covid-19) has seen the term ‘ICU’ rise to prominence once again as the area in hospital where the most severely ill patients are cared for. Critical Care is a term that is repeated daily in the media. It is the specialty we practice and are passionate about, and the area of health care we are dedicated to teaching at the University of Glasgow.

WHY THIS PROGRAMME

• Experience the opportunity to obtain a postgraduate degree in this developing and exciting clinical field.
• Areas covered include hot topics such as; sepsis, multi-organ failure and critical care governance.
• Taught at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) which has the largest critical care facilities in Scotland and one of the largest in the UK. The hospital itself was opened in 2015 and is one of the biggest in Europe.
• Learning opportunities are delivered by experts in the field of critical care using a multimodal teaching approach which includes lectures, seminars, simulated cases and ward rounds.
• The work and assignments during the course are tailored in order for students to reflect on implementing knowledge and skills in their own workplace in the UK or internationally.

Information for international students

International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Academic module (not General Training)

• 6.5 with no subtests under 6.0.
• Tests must have been taken within 2 years 5 months of start date. Applicants must meet the overall and subtest requirements using a single test.