Year one core modules

• Higher Education and the Work Environment (30 credits)

  The module is intended to be both preparatory and supportive; building a strong foundation for learning and later development. It will also develop students' understanding of the work sector, the role that individuals take in influencing its performance and the factors that influence the operation of organisations.

• Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology (30 credits)

  This module runs across two trimesters and provides a sound foundation of knowledge of how the body works to underpin quality care delivery. The focus is on the normal function rather that pathology

• Valuing People and Fostering Dignity and Respect (30 credits)

  The purpose of this module is to enable students to develop an informed and insightful understanding of the centrality of the individual in health and social care settings.

• Work Based learning 1 (30 credits)

  The purpose of this module is to enable students to become aware of the importance of multi-professional and inter-professional team working, operating in a collaborative way and being an effective member of the team. Emphasis will be on the students own practice within the clinical setting.

Year two core modules

• Research and Critical Thinking (15 credits)

  The module is designed to develop students' awareness of the need to underpin professional practice by the use of published research and up to date evidence.

• Health Awareness (30 credits)

  This module integrates a new public health approach to enable students to understand how individual's life context and lifestyles impact on health at a micro level and at population level.

• Work Based learning 2 (45 credits)

  The student will be expected to demonstrate a greater degree of autonomy in the management of their learning. The module will allow them to explore their own occupational practice focusing on Audit and teaching and assessing of others and knowledge and application of management of change.

• Working in Primary and Community Care (30 credits)

  The module aims to prepare student associate practitioners in primary and community care for the transition into qualified practice. Students will be expected to demonstrate highly practical skills implementing agreed plans of care, engaging with service users therapeutically, assessing and reporting health needs or risks and communicating effectively with other disciplines and senior practitioners in a range of settings, yet also working autonomously, reflectively and responsibly within their own sphere of competence.