Course Details

Course Code(s):
GCACPRTPAD
Available:
Part-Time
Intake:
Autumn/Fall
Course Start Date:
September
Duration:
2 Semesters Part-Time
Award:
Postgraduate Certificate
Faculty: Education and Health Sciences
Course Type: Taught, Professional/Flexible
Fees: For Information on Fees, see section below.

Contact(s):

Name: Joanna Allardyce
Address: https://www.ul.ie/schoolalliedhealth/ Email: sahpgcert@ul.ie
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Brief Description

The PGCert/Graduate Certificate in Advanced Clinical Practice is designed to enhance graduates’ critical thinking and develop evidence-based practitioners as future leaders of effective services. Students select from a wide range of elective modules (from project management to intercultural care) to fit their specific practice needs. Graduates will obtain in-depth knowledge of an area of Health Sciences to apply to their professional practice. 

(M) Microcreds available:

Modules listed within the Programme Content with an (M) beside them are MicroCreds and can be taken independently.

The PG Cert in Advanced Clinical Practice is designed to expand existing professional knowledge and to produce high quality evidence based practitioners who are better positioned to develop their individual disciplines as well as the wider health agenda. The programme will offer participants the opportunity to critically examine and reflect on their own practice and to implement mechanisms of change to enhance current practice.

This is a programme individually tailored to your professional needs. Rather than a prescribed course of study, you complete a core module on evidence-based practice or research methods, and we then work to identify other modules that suit you needs, ranging from project management, lean thinking and leadership to intercultural care and applied psychology, with many other options in between. The Independent Learning Module provides the option for you to put forward a specialist topic and receive one-to-one supervision to research that. The output you produce from this module can be tailored to your requirements: e.g. a clinical guideline, an evidence summary, a mini dissertation or a suite of resources, amongst other things. This programme can then lead into the Master of Science in Advanced Healthcare Practice, which follows the same practitioner-focused course design.

Tell us what you need to know, and we will help you become the expert in that area.

Objectives: Graduates will obtain in-depth knowledge of an area of Health Sciences to apply to their professional practice. They will reflect critically on their own and others’ learning styles and practice.

Programme Aims: 

  • To discuss professional issues relating to the provision of healthcare services
  • To examine the different sectors of patients/clients, service providers and models of service, and their differing needs
  • To source, critically appraise and synthesise the most up-to-date research 
  • To acquire an advanced level of clinical reasoning and critical thinking
  • To develop advanced level assessment and identification of service need in the student’s area of clinical practice
  • To integrate research knowledge with clinical expertise and patient preference to establish the means of providing cost-effective, high quality clinical services​

Students complete 30 ECTS, to include one core module PY5021 Evidence Based Practice: 12 Credits and additional elective modules selected from a suite of elective modules available in the School of Allied Health and across the Faculty of Education and Health Sciences, School of Engineering and Kemmy Business School.

The Independent Learning Module elective allows the student to undertake in-depth study of a chosen topic related to their practice and complete an agreed assignment.

Autumn Semester

Spring Semester

 Summer Semester 

Core Module

  • PY5021 Evidence Based Practice (12 ECTS)

 

  

Autumn Electives

Spring Electives

  
  • NS6040 Intercultural Care (9 ECTS)
  • OT5001 Independent Learning Module 1 (9 ECTS)
  • PS6042 Qualitative Research in Methods in Psychology
  • PY5022 Independent Learning Module 3 (9 ECTS)
  • MN6041 Project Management in Practice (6 ECTS)
  • CT6102 Applied Behaviour Change (9 ECTS)
  • CT6112 Innovation in Health & Social Care (9 ECTS)
  • NS6038 Promoting Quality & Safety in Healthcare (12 ECTS)
  

(M) A MicroCred is a single module within a larger further award (eg. Certificate, Diploma, Masters). By taking a micro-credential you may be eligible to apply for a credit exemption should you progress to study for a further award.

For further information on specific modules, please search by module code in  book of modules.

 

Who Can Apply

Healthcare clinicians with a professionally and academically accredited BSc (Hons) (level 8 National Qualifications Authority of Ireland recognised) or equivalent in a health profession* at a minimum award of 2.2 hons level or above.

*Health profession such as; Doctors, Nurses, Health and Social Care Professionals. Health and Social Care Professionals encompasses the list of professions regulated under the Health and Social Care Professions Act (2005) Ireland. These are clinical biochemist; dietician; medical scientist; occupational therapist; orthoptist; physiotherapist; podiatrist; psychologist; radiographer; social care worker; social worker; speech and language therapist. Other health professionals (e.g., paramedic, dentist) may be admitted on approval from the course director.

What to Include with your Application

  • Qualification transcripts and certificates
  • A copy of your birth certificate or passport
  • If your qualifications have been obtained in a country where English is an official language this will suffice

  • If this is not available, the following additional documents must be provided:
    • English translation of your qualification(s)/transcripts
    AND
    • English language competency certificate

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Spring 2022/3

EU Full time €1,856 - Part time Per Annum €2,033

Non- EU Full time €6,832 - Part time Per Annum €6,880

Autumn 2023/4

EU Full time - €1,981 Part time Per Annum €2,033

Non-EU Full time €7,306 - Part time Per Annum €7,357

Springboard - Candidates who satisfy the eligibility criteria under Springboard+ can qualify for 90% or 100% funding subject to the availability of places. To clarify eligibility please go to https://springboardcourses.ie/eligibility

Further information on fees and payment of fees is available from the Student Fees Office website. All fee related queries should be directed to the Student Fees Office (Phone: +353 61 213 007 or email student.fees.office@ul.ie.)

 

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I have undertaken a Postgraduate Certificate in the School of Allied Health and am now completing the Advanced Healthcare Practice MSc in 2020. The course has been a perfect blend of classes, online and self directed learning which has allowed me to complete it in line with the demands on my job. I work full time, and have been able to complete my studies around this. The modules undertaken have allowed me to complete projects with a very direct impact on my practice, including case studies, pathway development and culture change projects. This has allowed the study to have a very applied, practical element and as such, doesn't feel separate from my clinical practice.

 

 

Wesley Mulcahy, Senior Occupational Therapist in Acute Paediatric Neurology in CHI, Crumlin