
Overview
Perioperative medicine is an emerging, multi-disciplinary approach which seeks to optimise the care of high-risk surgical patients. The Perioperative Medicine in Action course from UCL by FutureLearn encompasses disciplines such as anaesthetics, surgery, nursing, elderly care, physiotherapy and healthcare management.
In this RCoA-endorsed course, developed by anaesthetists at University College London (UCL) Hospitals, you’ll learn the key concepts you need to improve patient safety and reduce healthcare costs.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Justify the need for better, more holistic care for the high risk surgical patient, to improve outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.
- Engage with risk assessment tools to characterise and quantify the risk of an individual undergoing a particular procedure.
- Demonstrate the need for protocolised care pathways and evaluate the success of the enhanced recovery programmes in reducing variance in practice.
- Describe the major challenges in delivering perioperative medicine for the elderly.
- Discuss the current economic pressure on healthcare systems and how perioperative medicine can be used to reduce these pressures.
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Topics include:
The Surgical Epidemic
Risk assessment and shared decision-making
Protocols in surgical care
An Age Old Problem
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Duration
- Part-time
- 1 months
- 3 hrs/week
Start dates & application deadlines
- Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners.
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Delivered
Campus Location
- London, United Kingdom
Disciplines
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- This RCoA endorsed course is aimed at all interested healthcare professionals, both medical and allied health professionals.
- This would include anaesthetists, surgeons, care-of-the-elderly physicians, pre-assessment nurses, surgical ward nurses, operating department staff, physiotherapists and medical managers, emphasising that enhanced care and improved outcomes depend on a multidisciplinary approach.
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Visit programme websiteTuition Fee
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International
94 EUR/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 94 EUR for the full programme during 1 months. -
National
94 EUR/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 94 EUR for the full programme during 1 months.