Advanced Clinical Focus: Enhance your ability to assess, diagnose, and manage a wide range of acute presentations commonly encountered in primary and urgent care settings.

Interdisciplinary Teaching: Learn from expert clinicians and academics across general practice, emergency medicine, and community health.

Real-World Application: Apply evidence-based approaches to acute illness management through interactive case-based learning and clinical scenarios.

Flexible Learning: Designed for working healthcare professionals, combining online resources with interactive workshops and case-based learning.

Career Development: Supports progression into enhanced and advanced clinical practice, urgent care roles, or enhanced responsibilities within multidisciplinary teams.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this short course, you will be able to:

• Critically evaluate and apply evidence-based medicine to enhance safe and shared decision-making, demonstrating appropriate clinical and diagnostic reasoning while integrating legal, ethical, and professional accountability in patient consultations and clinical practice.

• Systematically evaluate evidence from a variety of sources to inform the consultation and management process, proposing innovative therapeutic interventions and monitoring strategies.
• Critically appraise and apply the key principles of history taking, clinical examination and patient assessment skills, including the interpretation of clinical findings, to determine a diagnosis and propose an appropriate, evidenced-based plan of care for service users presenting with undifferentiated/undiagnosed acute illnesses in primary and/or unscheduled care settings.
• Critically apply theoretical frameworks of communication to enhance interactions with patients, carers, and multidisciplinary teams, while demonstrating the ability to undertake safe and appropriate referrals using relevant frameworks.

This course is for qualified healthcare professionals. Applicants must provide evidence in the application portal of the following:

• A minimum 2:1 undergraduate Bachelor’s (honours) degree
• 2 years post-qualification experience

It is preferred applicants have already completed an assessment skills module or have experience of undertaking assessment skills prior to starting this module as this will provide a solid foundation for the practical clinical components of this module.

If you have a lower degree classification, or your professional registration was made based on a nursing diploma, your application may be considered if you can demonstrate significant relevant work experience or offer a related postgraduate qualification (such as a Masters or PGDip).

Assessment

Clinical Case Presentation (100%)

Teaching dates - TBC (16 Jan - 2 April)

Note: This module is expected to be delivered in person at our Waterloo Campus, with some teaching dates in person at Denmark Hill