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PgC - Defence Medical Leadership

The PGCert Practice Development: Defence Medical Leadership is one of a suite of programmes within the Practice Development framework. This programme has been specifically developed to meet the continuing professional development needs of individuals who are leading, managing, supervising at a strategic level (or aspiring to do so) within a variety of military settings. 



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Course Overview

This programme aims to:

On this course you will...

  • Provide a coherent post-graduate progression route, which recognises and values your prior experience and learning
  • Provide a transformative learning experience for you to advance your academic and professional development through critical self-reflection and reflexivity
  • Enable you to develop a mastery of complex and specialised knowledge and a critical awareness of issues at the forefront of your field of practice
  • Develop conceptual knowledge and advanced understanding of how techniques of inquiry enable the critical and objective analysis, interpretation and application of research and evidence within your defence medical leadership sphere of influence.

Course Structure

What you will learn

Reflection and reflexive practice are core skills that students will develop over the duration of this PGCert using a reflective workbook to record their personal and professional progress and provide iterative evidence for each module and beyond the taught elements of the programme.

Modules

In the case of this PGCert Practice Development: Defence Medical Leadership, you will be required to undertake the following modules: 

Year one

Modules

  • Leadership Through Transformational Learning
Year two

Modules

  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Work Based Learning
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