Respiratory medicine is a broad, exciting and challenging specialty. This short course offers health professionals working in primary or secondary care a comprehensive understanding of assessing and managing patients with acute and chronic respiratory conditions. You’ll explore presentations and clinical management across adults of all ages.

Key information

Award:

AdvDip(CPD)

Mode of Study:

Part-time

Duration:

15 weeks

Location:

University of Bolton

Start date:

To be confirmed

Course Details

This clinically-focused stand-alone professional development course is designed to provide an advanced understanding of the diagnosis, treatment and ongoing care of adults with a wide range of respiratory conditions. Taught by the University of Bolton in collaboration with expert clinical practitioners from practice, this course will support you to develop your knowledge and understanding of a range of acute and chronic respiratory conditions, exploring presentations and clinical management.

Our experienced and knowledgeable team will support you as you develop advanced knowledge and clinical skills in the systematic assessment of patients who present with acute and chronic respiratory disease. An understanding of normal physiology, pharmacology and pathophysiology underpin respiratory medicine so we’ll help you to build your knowledge of these concepts. We’ll provide an overview of different respiratory conditions; for instance, pulmonary infection, airways disease, cancer, interstitial lung disease, autoimmune diseases, sleep-related breathing. We’ll also support you as you explore the role of a range of diagnostic tests (including pulmonary function tests, chest x-rays, computed tomography (CT) imaging and arterial blood gas sampling) and help you learn to interpret the results of such investigations.

Clinical management in respiratory medicine requires significant interaction with many other specialties within the hospital and primary care setting so we’ll focus on building your understanding of the interface between respiratory medicine and acute medicine, ambulatory care and primary care. You’ll also learn about effective discharge planning and follow-up for patients with respiratory conditions.

To benefit from studying this course, you should already a health professional with a basic understanding and some clinical experience of working in respiratory medicine.

Highlights

Our dedicated academic team brings extensive health and social care experience to the course content. Along with their passion for service excellence in clinical practice settings, they’re also currently engaged in highly relevant research, which means they can add valuable context and insight to your learning.
We aim to develop your understanding of respiratory medicine by consolidating and building upon the knowledge you have already gained through your clinical experiences.
The course explores common presentations as well as rarer clinical presentations.
The course is designed to provide the flexibility to fit in with busy home and working lives.
As you study this course, we’ll encourage you to develop the skills, values and behaviours so popular with employers. These include action planning, personal impact and confidence, self-awareness, team working, problem-solving, initiative and communication skills.
The course is part of a professional development framework, and you can use the credits you’ll gain by completing the course successfully towards the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (Respiratory).

Key Features

The University of Bolton has been offering high-quality courses designed to meet the health and social care sector’s needs for over 30 years, so we have the knowledge and experience to anticipate and respond to changes in the health and social care sector.
Our courses and programmes respond directly to the requirements of the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF), which is at the heart of the career and pay progression aspect of Agenda for Change.
We’ll support you as you learn to critically appraise the evidence base so that you can develop new knowledge and skills independently and continually improve your practice.
We review the course curriculum regularly to ensure we include and apply contemporary theories.
On successful completion of this course, you will be awarded an Advanced Professional Development qualification in Advanced Clinical Practice in Respiratory worth 20 credits at Level HE7.

To undertake this course, you must offer current professional registration as a health or social care practitioner with evidence of post-registration experience of professional practice; for example, registered nurse, assistant practitioner, allied health professional or paramedic. A first degree relevant to your health or social care practice is desirable and/or recent study at Level HE6.
Some baseline experience of respiratory medicine is recommended for this course.
You may be required to attend an interview and/or provide a portfolio of work.
Please note that this course is subject to the University of Bolton's Fitness to Practise procedure.

Where changes are made to material information contained in this course description or a decision is taken to suspend a course between the offer of admissions and enrolment, we will inform applicants at the earliest possible opportunity and will outline the various options available to the applicant.

This course offers academic progression in the specialist field of respiratory medicine.

Course fees

Important note regarding tuition fees for the 2023-2024 academic year: EU nationals who meet residency requirements (have settled or pre-settled status) may be eligible for 'Home' fee status. If you do not meet these residency requirements, overseas fees will apply. Irish citizens living in the UK or Ireland will be eligible for 'Home' fee status under the Common Travel Area arrangement. Please read the student finance for EU students web page on www.gov.uk for information.

The fees for a student's course of study will be set for the normal duration of that course subject only to inflationary increases – measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) recorded in March each year to take effect for subsequent start dates.

Bursaries

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This advanced professional development course adopts a blended learning approach, using the principles of problem-based learning to develop your enquiry skills and place this in the context of patient care.

You’ll be introduced to topics through keynote lectures that will involve a mixture of theory, case based discussions and facilitated group discussions. Teaching will be to the wider group to enhance your understanding and decision-making, taking into account what the investigations and interventions represent for the patient. This approach will ensure that you encounter a wide range of case histories and abnormal findings. It will also develop your ability to make defensible decisions rather than simply arriving at the correct answer without a logical argument to back up the decision.

Following the lectures, you’ll be expected to explore each topic in greater depth, and in relation to your own area of practice, through self-directed learning. You’ll be encouraged to consider current research evidence and use this to inform your clinical decision-making and communication skills.

In terms of assessment, you can expect problem-based learning case presentations, interactive quizzes, written assignments, multiple-choice questions (MCQs) and extended matching questions (EMQs) exams.

Modules

Respiratory

Assessment methods

Level	Assesment method
Level one	Coursework 50%, Written exams 50%

Learning activities

Level	Learning activity
Level one	Guided independent study 75%, Scheduled learning and teaching activities 25%

Disclaimer

The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. The university considers changes to courses very carefully and the university will minimise any changes. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis and changes may be necessary due to legitimate staffing, financial, regulatory and academic reasons. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up-to-date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason, we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.