The Offer:
An excellent opportunity to gain a postgraduate qualification and develop your career in Primary Care. Please click here for flyer.
Part funded (50%) for eligible Primary Care Clinicians working in General Practice in the Southwest.
60 academic credits across 3-4 modules, over one year.
Blended learning with 2-3 days at the University of Exeter per module.
Commencing Autumn 2024.
The course:
The programme aims to provide you with a qualification that evidences advanced clinical primary care practice, together with mastery of the evidence and theories that lie behind modern primary care. You will be provided with the necessary skills to engage successfully in changing and strengthening primary care.
Compulsory modules will cover areas such as the principles of leading change, and designing practical solutions to key issues, for example the tension between accessibility and continuity of care. Modules cover the principles relating to care of individual patients, as well as the care of groups of patients. Content also includes practical experience in the design of clinics, tackling inequality, and making interventions to improve the health of communities, such as prevention and health maintenance.
You’ll also choose from a range of optional modules covering change in health services, management in healthcare, education essentials and the principles of supervision, mentoring and coaching.
Funding:
The Southwest Primary Care Academy will support a limited number of Southwest Primary Care Clinicians to complete this course by securing a 50% reduction in the fee. The offer is open to all clinicians who work in General Practice in one of our seven healthcare systems who can meet the University’s entry criteria.
To request funding please complete form: https://forms.office.com/e/AqE4AMHY9r
You will be informed in early August whether your application is successful.
To find out more about the PG Cert visit the University of Exeter: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/medicine/primary-care-pgcert/
Any other queries should be sent to: England.PrimaryCareAcademy.sw@nhs.net