This course is aimed at health and social care professionals who are working within a role involving caring for people with long-term conditions. It offers you the opportunity to develop your knowledge and understanding of history taking and diagnostic reasoning, self-care strategies, case management/case finding and therapeutic interventions.

• This course provides you with an opportunity to develop the expertise required to manage people with a long term condition.
• You will consider the implications for patients and carers facing the reality of living well or dying as a result of a long-term condition.
• Your learning will be enhanced through the opportunity to meet service users within the University setting and discuss the implications of living with a long-term condition.
• You will have the opportunity to explore research relevant to your individual professional developmental needs and apply this in your specialist area of practice.

 

This inter-professional course provides you with an opportunity to study alongside a diverse range of students from other health professions providing a richness to the course.

 

Teaching and assessment

The course is delivered through a range of teaching methods including formal lectures, seminars, small group tutorials, e-learning and case-based tutorials.

 

Assessment involves a variety of formative and summative methods including written case studies and presentations. Your module specification/course handbook will provide full details of the assessment criteria applying to your course.

 

Feedback (usually written) is normally provided on all coursework submissions within three term time weeks – unless the submission was made towards the end of the session in which case feedback would be available on request after the formal publication of results. Feedback on exam performance/final coursework is available on request after the publication of results.