Module - Contemporary Practice: Supporting and Assessing Students in Healthcare Settings HCPD7200

On successful completion, you will be able to:

1. Explore review, and critically approaise, placement and management, issues, working relationships and inter-professional team working, of everyone involved in effective student placements, whilst recognising the diversity of students and staff
2. Critique and apply contemporary theories of learning and teaching to mentorship within practice-based settings
3. Critically analyse and evaluate the principles of assessment in diverse clinical environments with consideration of leadership, accountability, responsibility and failure to fail with reference to your own professional code
4. Critically analyse how learning from this module may transform your understanding of your practice.

Principles of mentorship which incorporates:

• Evidence-based practice
• Leadership
• Professional role modelling
• Diversity, equality and inclusivity
• Mentoring in different professional contexts
• Mentoring throughout the student practice placement journey - from induction to placement evaluation
• Critical appraisal of learning theories and their uses in practice
• Principles of assessment, accountability, responsibility and failure to fail
• Feedback and difficult conversations.

How you will learn

Participation in the formative components of the module will help prepare you to undertake and succeed in the summative assessment. Work completed as part of this module can be counted towards professional CPD for your relevant professional context.

How you will be assessed

• Formative Assessment
  Formative work on this module will be ongoing online discussions, reflection, and peer feedback from online or face to face activities. There will be one formal 500 word piece of work that will receive detailed academic feedback that can contribute directly to the summative assignment.
• Summative Assessment – Portfolio: 4000 word written assignment
  Portfolio could include reflection, TLA plan, evaluation and application of learning theories, practice considerations, student journey from planning to assessment, and ongoing personal development needs. All components of the portfolio are assessed as a single element at 100% for the entire portfolio. The summative portfolio may contain elements such as teaching and learning aids, reflections and critiques of aspects of the student learning journey.
  
  
  

Evidence of prior successful study at underpinning level (level 6)

To be eligible to study this module, you must demonstrate the ability to study at this level and commit to attempting the assessment. When taken as part of a specific named award, the module content and assessment must be focussed towards the subject of that award. If this module has previously been studied at a lower academic level, or non-credit bearing level, it cannot subsequently be accessed again at a higher academic level.

20 Credit Health Module Pricing

CPD Pricing structure

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