Programme structure: Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals (PG Dip) - what's running in 2021/22

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Applicants for the PG Diploma must have successfully completed the PG Certificate in Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals.

The Diploma permits learners a greater degree of choice and specialisation and forms a bridge to the MSc where learners can pursue an educational research topic relevant to their own work place and academic interests. These stages are aimed at those with a developing interest in teaching, learning and assessment, and may be specialising or taking senior roles in educational practice, management and/or research.

All units in this programme are must pass. For the definition of a must pass unit please see the Glossary of Terms from Annex 1 to the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/esu/assessment/annex/glossary.html

Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Teaching Block
Students must take the following unit:
Research Methods MEEDM0001 20 Optional AYEAR
40 credit points of previously untaken units from:
Language and discourse: teaching effective communication MEEDM0023 20 Optional AYEAR
Technology Enhanced Learning in Education MEEDM0032 20 Optional AYEAR
Leading in Education and Training MEEDM0036 20 Optional AYEAR
Exploring contemporary issues in Health Care Professional Education MEEDM0029 20 Optional AYEAR
Curriculum development and course design MEEDM0031 20 Optional AYEAR
Exploring Inclusive Pedagogy in Healthcare Education MEEDM0038 20 Optional AYEAR
PG Diploma in Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals   60    

Additional progress information

Although shown here as a single year, students can take up to two years to complete the PG Diploma.