This fellowship programme, a unique flagship programme, is offered wholly online. It is structured as four 20-credit modules (Master’s level/level 7) that can be taken in 2 parts. Part 1 deals with clinical nephrology and dialysis, while part 2 addresses clinical transplantation practice as a full fellowship or as standalone modules. This programme is designed for Allied Healthcare Professionals (renal nurses, nurse practitioners, dialysis technicians, renal pharmacists, nutrition specialities and transplant coordinators, and any other related specialities) to get an up-to-date clinical experience in renal medicine and transplantation and to help them to progress in their future careers.
We are glad you have chosen to start the next stage of your education with us, with a massive investment to improve our resources for all our students and to recruit appropriately qualified national and international clinicians to inform and deliver our curriculum to ensure that all we deliver is current, evidence-based and research connected. We aim to give you a valuable and satisfying student experience. To achieve this successfully, our experience is a partnership between us as tutors and students. This wholly online programme will establish your peer support/learning via the online discussion group and journal club. You will learn things from us as well as from each other. Most importantly, you will also discover things for yourself. We urge you to keep in touch with the tutors to get the maximum benefit.
The total number of scheduled learning and teaching hours is 200 hours/module (72 hours of directed student activity and 128 hours of student self-directed learning activity). The student is expected to spend 16-17 hours studying per topic over the 16 weeks of the module. Additional time is provided to guide the students during the assessment (formal and informal). Emphasis will be placed upon developing effective clinical reasoning strategies based upon the use of ‘best evidence’ and critical reflection of practice. Our materials will be issued in a cycle every 7 days (please see the timetable provided for each module).
Distinguished students are encouraged to submit their work for presentations at national and international conferences and publish it in peer-reviewed journals. We also support our students’ applications for international grants to support advanced training in clinical transplantation.
Please join us to enjoy a new learning experience.
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