The UWS BSc Operating Department Practitioner Graduate Apprenticeship mirrors contemporary Operating Department Practice. It places a strong emphasis on experiential learning to ensure that graduates possess the requisite knowledge and skills to deliver safe, effective, person-centred care in the 21st century.

 

This is a three-year, full-time programme. Students will spend four days per week in clinical practice with one day learning online.

 

The programme aims to prepare Operating Department Practitioners who will be equipped to practice in dynamic, multidisciplinary settings and able to demonstrate competence in the provision of high standards of safe, effective, individualised and patient focused care during anaesthesia, surgery and post-anaesthesia care.