School of Healthcare - Faculty of Medicine and Healthcare

Postgraduate Certificate in Prescribing and Patient Assessment - PGC-PRESC-10

What this programme is about:
This multidisciplinary Master’s level programme is aimed at registered pharmacists, nurses and midwives working in community, primary or secondary care practice who wish to become prescribers and to develop their knowledge and skills of patients assessment.
Currently the two parts to this programme(prescribing and patient assessment) run as independent modules. The programme intends to link them to provide a more cohesive approach to prescribing including as it does, the diagnostic and patient assessment element. Successful completion of the programme leads to a Post Graduate Certificate. Once completed, if students wish to further their academic portfolio it may be possible to transfer onto the MSc in Advanced Practice.

Why study this programme?
The University of Leeds and the School of Healthcare provide a range of programmes which prepare and equip healthcare professionals to contribute to modern and flexible patient centred health services. These programmes include specialist and focused provision which respond to rapidly changing health services in which the professions are developing the capacity to take increased responsibility and accountability for working independently in roles which were previously associated almost exclusively with medicine. Our new programme (Prescribing and Patient Assessment) builds on the School of Healthcare’s existing portfolio in the area of prescribing and patient assessment.

The programme will provide you with:
The underpinning knowledge and skills to work as independent and supplementary prescribers in your chosen area of practice and to be able to assess patients prior to diagnosis. Both elements of the programme can be taken separately but by undertaking both modules in this new programme will lead to the Postgraduate Certificate in Prescribing and Patient Assessment.

For further information please contact the programme manager, Barry Strickland-Hodge at b.strickland-hodge@leeds.ac.uk

Modules:
This course comprises 2 compulsory modules leading to a total of 75 postgraduate credits (note that students will take either HECS5120M or HECS5146M depending on professional background) :

Compulsory Modules