What is it about?

This module provides students with the knowledge required to underpin the third year specialist module in respiratory and sleep science. It also provides students with the knowledge to undertake project based learning in the workplace.

Who is it for?

Health care science workforce

What will participants learn?

Intended Knowledge Outcomes:
•Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of the physiology and pathophysiology of sleep and respiratory disease and how this can be assessed.
•Demonstrate a critical understanding of the diagnostic and advanced therapeutic interventions used in non-invasive ventilation in disorders of respiration and sleep.
•Critically evaluate the rationale, underpinning principles, indications and contraindications for commonly used therapeutic strategies to treat respiratory disorders and sleep.
•Demonstrate a critical understanding of the role of the respiratory scientist in the mixed disciplinary team environment.

Intended Skill Outcomes:
•Convey complex scientific information to inform multi-disciplinary teams of the diagnostic results, conclusions and consequences, in clear reports or presentations, in a clinically appropriate timeframe.

How will it be delivered?

2 week teaching block

How will participants be assessed?

120 minute written examination
3000 word written exercise

What experience / qualifications do participants need?

Applicants must have an honours degree (1st or 2:1) in a pure or applied science area relevant to the specialism for which they are applying. Applicants with a relevant 2:2 degree will also be considered if they have an MSc or PhD in the specialism for which they are applying.

Code

CVR8004
Level

7

Credits

30

When is it?  

16 - 27/09/2019

Where is it?

Newcastle University

What are the contact dates students need to attend university?

16 - 27/09/2019

 

University Contact Details

Name:Rob Carter
Email: pgclinsci@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: 0191 208 7223

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