Entry requirementsThis module is for practitioners who are already or aim to be working in areas of advanced cardiac practice. There are two main aims of the pathway:firstly, to consolidate and improve the practitioners understanding of advanced concepts in cardiac disease and treatment and secondly, to provide practitioners with skills to help them further develop their careers.
Academic titleMSc, PG Dip, PG Cert Advanced Practice (Cardiac Care)
Course descriptionProgramme description
- Tuition from leading experts.
- Seminars and lectures given by leaders in healthcare from around the world.
- A multi-faculty environment providing interprofessional learning.
This pathway is designed for experienced cardiac care practitioners who wish to advance their clinical practice, develop their professional career and enhance their knowledge of research and evidence-based healthcare.
The programme builds on your existing skills and experience to enable you to lead and support the development and subsequent delivery of evidence-based practice. The pathway will provide you with an advanced understanding of cardiac disease and treatment, applying it to advanced care modalities in the spheres of cardiac care. By application of research methodology and evidence-based principles the pathway will enhance your skills in these areas, improving your ability to use these skills in practice.
This pathway forms part of an advanced programme that is suitable for practitioners from a wide variety of areas, for example: accident and emergency departments; cardiac care areas; intensive care and high dependency units; primary care and general practice staff; staff involved in advising on dietetic and rehabilitation of cardiac patients. Students undertake core modules in cardiac care, evidence-based practice and healthcare research. In addition students select options from a range of areas including:
- Advanced assessment skills
- Prescribing (for eligible practitioners)
- Clinical specialities diabetes care
- Professional development and organisational change
- Leadership
- Health policy and NHS reform
- Practice portfolios
Other options from our BSc programme may also be available. Students who have already studied clinically focused modules at undergraduate or graduate level at King’s may be able to incorporate that study into this programme, subject to certain limits, provided that the credits have not already contributed to an award. Modules studied elsewhere may be incorporated through accreditation of prior certificated learning (subject to a successful accreditation claim).
Students progressing to the MSc undertake a substantial research or service development project relevant to their own area of practice.
Programme format and assessment
Assessment of the module will be by a written assignment, in addition to this format other modules within the MSc programme will be examined by examinations and clinical competencies.