Advanced Pre-Hospital Trauma Care

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MSc

Intermediate award(s): PG Dip, PG Cert

Full-Time

Course overview

The MSc Advanced Pre-Hospital Trauma Care aims to aims to meet the personal, professional and educational requirements of Allied Health Professionals, to enable students to develop their knowledge and extend and advance their practice to achieve competence in Pre-Hospital Trauma Care, providing students with the breadth and depth of experience.

The course provides a progression route for currently qualified postgraduate doctors, medics from the Tri-services, paramedics and other postgraduate pre-hospital care practitioners, which includes nurses and Operating Department Practitioners (ODPs).

The course provides a strong emphasis on understanding the rationale behind pre-hospital trauma patient care management, and the evaluation and development of practice. Innovation, research and creativity will be fostered in order to enable students to evaluate and influence practice, to improve service delivery and effect change.

In addition, the course aims to critically evaluate the relationship between evidence based practice and professional development necessary for lifelong learning. Critical enquiry will be built on inter-professional learning platforms to enable students to actively contribute to the emerging body of underpinning evidence within professional practice.

Core modules

Advanced Trauma and Emergency Care within the Pre-hospital Setting

(30 credits level 7) This module has been devised to enable experienced registered health care professionals (for example: registered with General Medical Council, Nursing & Midwifery Council, Health & Care Professions Council), to enhance their knowledge base of this rapidly moving clinical speciality and develop the skills required to manage and lead a team during a pre-hospital emergency situation. This module will enable all students regardless of their previous experience to be able to operate in complex and unpredictable situations and perform smoothly with precision and effectiveness within Pre-Hospital Trauma Care.
Research Studies

(30 credits level 7)This module is designed to provide students with a critical overview of the main methodologies and designs applied to research within health, social work and social care, professional practice and policy. It provides students with an opportunity to explore the theoretical dilemmas which underlie the process of inquiry and its relationship to practice. All health, social work & social care professionals need to be highly skilled and knowledgeable to meet the demands of complex activity which underpins much professional practice and demonstrate that research directly informs practice.
Advanced Management and Specialist Practice in Pre-hospital Care

(30 Credits Level 7) This module is designed to build on the knowledge and skills of experienced practitioners in regard to major incident management, safe transfer and retrieval and pre-hospital obstetric emergencies. Students will develop to the required level of knowledge and skill to lead a team in the management and assessment of complex and unpredictable situations which arise during major incident management. They will learn to manage this complex situation whilst ensuring delivery of safe transfer and retrieval procedures for patients. The module will further enable students to lead and manage the assessment and care of pre-hospital obstetric emergencies prior to arrival the acute care setting.
Major Project

(60 credits level 7) Students progressing to MSc will undertake a substantial piece of research in the area of their own practice. Graduates of our MSc pathways have already produced some excellent pieces of research some of which have been published. The focus of the Major Project can be:Primary Data Collection Project; Systematic Review Project; Work based project. Students choosing to undertake the work based project will be able to discuss with the course leader, Major Project supervisor and the students employer to ensure that the research topic and question are suitably focused within the specialism and are achievable within the timescale for the course.

Optional modules

Global Leadership

(30 credits level 7) The aim of this module is to provide knowledge and skills to complement and scaffold the compulsory core modules. Students will be introducing their new and advanced Pre-Hospital Trauma care techniques into high-level clinical practice areas requiring them to have good leadership and management skills to take this innovative practice forward. In addition, it aims to advance the student's decision-making skills through critical reflection particularly in the area of advanced organisational practice. The demands of modern healthcare systems require the development of roles for confident autonomous organisational practitioners, who possess the knowledge and skills to implement complex decisions in a rapidly changing health sector environment and to play key roles in service development.
Advancing Professional Decision Making

(30 Credits level 7) Students will be encouraged to focus on new or advanced areas of service developments and consider issues such as ethics, legislation and quality assurance. They will need to be able to utilise both strategic and operational decision making skills within an area of advanced organisational development and or practice and to develop strategies to facilitate the implementation of the outcomes of the decision making process, either as an individual or within a team/organisational context. The students will contextualise these skills to their own area of service and expertise.

Assessment

Assessment is a multi-dimensional set of processes and this is reflected in the distinctiveness and diversity of the assessment framework found in this courses. A variety of formative and summative assessment strategies are utilised to ensure that students are able to integrate theoretical and practical knowledge with relevant contextual understanding and include:

Online activities
Reviews of literature
Dissertation
Observational Structured Clinical Examinations
Multiple Choice Examinations

Facilities

Facilities include simulation, skills laboratories, outside environment scenarios/teaching and a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

Special features

The course provides an academic progression for currently qualified medics, paramedics (incl. tri-services) and other post qualified pre-hospital care practitioners, which includes Registered Nurses (RN) and Operating Department Practitioners (ODPs). The course would include vocational qualifications currently, offered at Anglia Ruskin University i.e. Advanced Life Support, Advanced Paediatric Life Support, Major Incident Management, Pre-Hospital Obstetric Emergency training, and Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support, which are all accredited by the Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG) (2012) and the Resuscitation Council (UK). This is a novel course combining of both vocational and post graduate academic qualifications. Resources for this course will be shared with the MSc Pre-Hospital Trauma Care course. Students undertaking the BSc course will, on successful completion, be awarded a joint award with ARU and regulating bodies Resuscitation Council and Advanced Life Support Group.

Associated careers

Qualified registered healthcare professionals from the Tri-services, paramedics and other undergraduate pre-hospital care practitioners, which includes nurses and Operating Department Practitioners (ODPs).

Links with industry/Professional recognition

The effective assessment and management of patients prior to transfer to the acute setting requires skills and knowledge which are currently gained from a number of professional bodies e.g. Joint Royal Colleges and Ambulance Liaison Committee, The Royal College of Surgeons (England), Resuscitation Council (UK), The Advanced Life Support Group, The British Association for Immediate Care (UK) and the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care (UK).

The minimum qualification required for admission to this postgraduate course is:

Registered health care professional with 2 years post registration experience within critical care/pre-hospital care

Language requirements:

Applicants whose first language is not English and whose professional qualification was not taught and assessed in English will be required to demonstrate the University standard of English language (IELTS) at Level 6.5 (including written English academic test) prior to commencement on a course.

Admission to the Course:
Applicants may gain entry to the course by clearly demonstrating on their application that their qualifications and experience are equivalent to a recognised medical degree Qualification below: