Postgraduate Certificate - Advanced Clinical Practice

The Post Graduate Certificate (PGCert) in Advanced Clinical Practice is designed to enhance graduates critical thinking and develop evidence-based practitioners as future leaders of effective services. Students select from a wide range of elective modules (from project management to intercultural care) to fit their specific practice needs. Graduates will obtain in-depth knowledge of an area of Health Sciences to apply to their professional practice.
The PG Cert in Advanced Clinical Practice is designed to expand existing professional knowledge and to produce high quality evidence-based practitioners, who are better positioned to develop their individual disciplines as well as the wider health agenda. This programme offers students the opportunity to critically examine and reflect on their own practice and to implement mechanisms of change to enhance current practice. This highly flexible programme can be individually tailored to your professional needs. Rather than a prescribed course of study, students can select modules that support their needs, ranging from project management, lean thinking and leadership to intercultural care and applied psychology, with many other options in between. In addition to these electives, you will complete a core module of either research methods or evidence-based practice, to equip you with the knowledge needed to be an evidence-based practitioner. Among the elective offerings is the Independent Learning Modules which provide the option for you to put forward a specialist topic and receive one-to-one supervision to develop your skills/knowledge in relation to this topic. The output you produce from this module can be tailored to your professional needs: e.g. a clinical guideline, an evidence summary, a mini dissertation or a suite of resources, amongst other things. You may choose to progress your professional development via the Master of Science in Advanced Healthcare Practice, which follows the same practitioner-focused course design. In short, this programme equips graduates with the tools to excel in developing their professional knowledge in an area meaningful to them.

Healthcare clinicians with a professionally and academically accredited BSc (Hons) (level 8 National Qualifications Authority of Ireland recognised) or equivalent in a health profession* at a minimum award of 2.2 hons level or above.

*Health profession such as; Doctors, Nurses, Health and Social Care Professionals. Health and Social Care Professionals encompasses the list of professions regulated under the Health and Social Care Professions Act (2005) Ireland. These are clinical biochemist; dietician; medical scientist; occupational therapist; orthoptist; physiotherapist; podiatrist; psychologist; radiographer; social care worker; social worker; speech and language therapist. Other health professionals (e.g., paramedic, dentist) may be admitted on approval from the course director.

Acceptable English Language qualifications include the following:

Matriculation examinations from European countries where English is presented as a subject and an acceptable level is achieved
Irish Leaving Certificate English –Ordinary Level Grade D or above
TOEFL – 580 (paper based) or 90 (internet based)
IELTS – composite score 6.5 and not less than 6 in any one component.
English Test for English and Academic Purposes (ETAPP) – Grade C1
GCE ‘O’ level English Language/GCSE English Language – Grade C or above
Cambridge Assessment English –Certificate of Proficiency in English - Grade C / Certificate in Advanced English Grade B
GCE Examination Boards – Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations – Grade C / Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate – School Certificate Pass 1-6 / University of London Entrance and School Examinations Council – School Certificate Pass 1-6