Health Professions Education

Entry requirements

• A CV or résumé. This should include specific details of your current role and a history of your education and employment to date.
• A personal statement explaining:
• why you have applied for this course
• how it relates to your personal or professional ambitions
• how your academic and professional background show you have the skills needed to work effectively at postgraduate level.
• Two original signed references. One reference from your current employment and one academic reference.
• Academic transcripts and degree certificates.
• Candidates will attend a 30-minute online interview and must achieve a satisfactory score

All candidates must have an existing teaching role in their workplace, with an interest in pursuing an academic career in healthcare education or heathcare education research.

• A 2.1 Honours undergraduate degree in a health profession or in a relevant field (including but not limited to Health Sciences). If you studied your first degree outside the UK, see the international entry requirements.

• Significant professional or other relevant experience alongside evidence of prior alternative learning such as professional qualifications or certifications.

• Evidence of having completed at least one 30 credit module at a minimum of SCQF level 9 (or equivalent) within five years of the programme start date.

• A 2.1 Honours undergraduate degree in a health profession or in a relevant field (including but not limited to Health Sciences). If you studied your first degree outside the UK, see the international entry requirements.

• Completion and award of our PGCert Health Professions Education within five years of the programme start date

Months of entry

September

Course content

Increasing pressures on healthcare systems require flexible, accessible, creative, and relevant learning opportunities, particularly for educators who are also clinically active. On the Health Professions Education programme, you will examine the principles and values of a range of educational approaches.

The Health Professions Education online programme is for those interested in developing themselves in a healthcare education role, and offers the flexibility of learning to suit those currently employed. The programme will cultivate teaching practice which instils the principles and values of interprofessional education to support the development of the future and current healthcare work force.

Information for international students

If English is not your first language, you may need to provide an English language test score to evidence your English language ability. See approved English language tests and scores for this course.