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Overview
What you will study
The Assessment of Minor Injuries and Illness for Advanced Practice course offered by City, University of London will help you develop your skills in patient consultation, history-taking, and physical assessment of patients who present with undifferentiated and undiagnosed minor injuries and illness. You will learn how to distinguish between normal and abnormal findings. On completion of the module, you will be working at/towards advanced clinical practice.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Utilise a variety of structured approaches in the assessment of patients presenting with minor injuries and illness
- Competently use diagnostic, interpersonal and clinical examination skills to assess individuals presenting with minor ailments and injuries
- Detect symptoms which suggest significant pathology (red flags) and evaluate physical signs to differentiate between normal and abnormal
- Advance your role beyond previous practice.
- Elicit an age-appropriate comprehensive health history using skillful consultation with the patient and/or family
- Use a presenting problem to guide your assessment strategy Demonstrate competence in assessment techniques of different systems, including musculo-skeletal, ENT and ophthalmological
- Develop skills in recognising normal and abnormal findings
- Demonstrate safe and effective use of diagnostic equipment.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 1 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before
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Language
English
Credits
15 alternative credits
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Public Health View 237 other Short Courses in Public Health in United KingdomAcademic 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.
Student insurance
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- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
- You should be working in a healthcare setting where you see patients presenting with minor injury and/or illness. Relevant workplace opportunities and organisational support should be in place to enable you to achieve successful completion of the module.
- For those students whose first language is not English, the following qualification is also required: IELTS: 7.0
Work experience
- Participants should be registered health professionals with a minimum of two years post-qualification experience
Tuition Fee
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International
1405 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1405 GBP for the full programme during 1 months. -
National
1125 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1125 GBP for the full programme during 1 months.
Living costs for London
1137 - 2157 GBP /month
Living costs
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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