Urgent Care MSc

School of Health Sciences & Social Care

Brunel University

COURSE SUMMARY
Currently, NHS Trusts provide continuing care to patients who require treatment for either a minor injury or minor illness, or urgent or unscheduled care. In future, patients requiring urgent or unscheduled care will be managed by a General Practitioner (GP) in an Emergency Care Centre. This change in practice requires commitment from GPs to undertake further education and training in urgent care practice. The range of subject disciplines is designed to prepare professionals with the knowledge, skills and professional competencies to prepare them to attend to patients requiring medical assistance for minor injury/ minor illness or urgent / unscheduled care.

COURSE AIMS
In providing this course we aim to:
- Equip students with relevant theoretical principles, theories, issues and insights integral to urgent care practice and the management of minor illness and minor injury.
- Provide students with opportunities to develop and enhance professional competencies specific to urgent/ unscheduled care, minor illness and minor injury.
- Assist students to develop a comprehensive knowledge of operational and strategic management and successful leadership approaches.
- Support students to critically evaluate and apply advanced knowledge, skills and develop intellectual maturity in research implementation and evaluation
- Assist students to conceptualise and apply the theoretical principles of evidence based practice to clinical practice settings.
- Facilitate the personal and professional development of each student injury.

DEGREE STAGES
Students can study for the course in stages over a period of 2.5 to 5 years, eg Post Graduate Certificate 1 academic year, Post Graduate Diploma , 1 academic year and Master's dissertation 6 months to 1 academic year.

Students interested in studying for a PG certificate will study 2 modules over a period of 1 academic year. These include Management of Urgent Care 1 and Clinical Practice. Students who successfully complete both modules will be awarded a PG certificate in Urgent Care.

Students who wish to continue their studies to gain a PG Diploma in Urgent Care will study three additional modules: Research Methods, Management of Urgent Care II and Principles and Practice of Evidence-based Health Care. These three modules can be studied in one academic year. Students who successfully complete the three modules will be awarded a PG Diploma Urgent Care.

Dissertation
The dissertation will take the form of an extensive literature review and a journal article. Students who wish to continue to study for a Masters in Urgent Care are required to study for a dissertation and undertake an empirical study in an aspect of urgent care practice and submit a 15,000-18,000 word thesis.

For further details and module descriptions please visit: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/health/healthcourse/postgraduate/cdata/Urgent...