Welcome To The Fellowship in Clinical Transplantation
This fellowship programme, clinically oriented, is offered wholly online. It is structured as six 20-credit modules (Masters level/level 7) that can be taken either as standalone modules or as an award – Postgraduate Certificate/Fellowship in Clinical Transplantation. We are very pleased 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 provide 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.
Admission is open for All International Students in a Part-time Capacity.
Admission is open for All International Students in a Part-time Capacity. There are 6 wholly-online-modules for the entire fellowship. Each module is delivered over 16 weeks and will comprise the following:
- Asynchronous audio-lectures.
- Recorded synchronous tutorials.
- Student-led teaching.
- Reflective practice on the national and international guidelines.
- Real-life clinical scenarios.
- Group discussion of complex cases
- Critical appraisal of the available evidence with reflection on the local practice.
- Critical appraisal of scientific papers.
- MCQs with answers and explanations.
- Facilitated online discussion boards.
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). Our materials will be issued in a cycle every 7 days. Emphasis will be placed upon developing effective clinical reasoning strategies based upon the use of ‘best evidence’ and critical reflection of practice.
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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