Run by School of Medical and Health Sciences

20.000 Credits or 10.000 ECTS Credits

Semester 1 & 2

Organiser: Prof Chris Burton

This module provides unique opportunities for advanced level practitioners to consolidate and enhance professional skills through action learning and master-classes.

Based on the principles of peer learning and peer support, the module offers a bespoke programme to support the development of transferable skills in areas such as research methodology, leadership, project management, networking, and policy analysis. The programme will be tailored to the needs of the individual and to employers’ expectations and role developments in the UK healthcare context.

Students will join and contribute to a growing ‘community of practice’ engaged in leading the development of healthcare services in Wales, the United Kingdom and beyond.

This module will be directed by students’ needs, as an awareness of these develops through action learning, with an emphasis on relationship building and networking, peer learning and peer support.

The programme runs over semesters 1 and 2 and will include:

September: Welcome drinks for School of Health Sciences Postgraduate Researchers

November: Action Learning Set followed by Community of Scholars Dinner Includes an introduction to the course and an induction for the Professional Doctorate in Healthcare (Implementation)

January: Action Learning Set

April: Action Learning Set followed by Community of Scholars Dinner

May: Patient-powered Safety Symposium

A one-day symposium at Bangor University bringing together in dialogue patients, healthcare staff and researchers. Hosted by Health Education & Improvement Wales, Bangor University, Betsi-Cadwaladr University Health Board’s Quality Improvement Hub.

July: School of Health Sciences International Health Services Research Summer School

About the International Health Services Research Summer School

The Summer School offers participants a unique opportunity to gain access to internationally renowned experts in a range of topic areas, evaluating complex interventions (including clinical trials); realist synthesis; health economics, implementation research; healthcare ethnography; arts-based approaches; and participatory research

• The opportunity to present your research

• Career development day and Individual Research Conversations with mentors

• Special guest speaker and Early Career Researcher plenary

• Summer School Dinner in the elegant atmosphere of the Terras Lounge

threshold

Basic understanding of the facts and principles specific to the topics covered in this module. Basic understanding of professional accountability issues. Students will be required to achieve a minimum of C- grade in the assignment to in order to pass the theory component of the module.

good

Good understanding of the facts and principles specific to the topics covered in this module. Good understanding of professional accountability issues. This equates to a minimum mark of Grade B- in the Grading Criteria.

excellent

Very good understanding of the facts and principles specific to the topics covered in this module and evidence of additional evidence gained by the student. Very good understanding of professional accountability issues. This equates to a minimum mark of Grade A- in the Grading Criteria

1. Critically evaluate personal development needs in line with academic, professional and organisational expectations

2. Design learning opportunities with peers to address personal and group development needs

3. Articulate the development of new knowledge through personal professional development

4. Understanding of research methodology

5. Development of skills in developing a research strategy and project management

Type	Name	Description	Weight
	Portfolio		10.00
	Reflection on portfolio, theory and professional practice.		90.00

		Hours
Study group	Facilitated by Dr Lorelei Jones and based on the principles of peer learning and peer support – these will include some master-classes / guest lectures from invited speakers (9 hours) There will also be opportunities for social events and networking (6 hours)	15
Private study	Directed reading time focused on materials provided by module facilitator and self-directed study, assignment work and reflexive work	145
Practical classes and workshops	The Summer School offers participants a unique opportunity to gain access to internationally renowned experts in a range of topic areas, evaluating complex interventions (including clinical trials); realist synthesis; health economics, implementation research; healthcare ethnography; arts-based approaches; and participatory research	40

• Literacy - Proficiency in reading and writing through a variety of media
• Numeracy - Proficiency in using numbers at appropriate levels of accuracy
• Computer Literacy - Proficiency in using a varied range of computer software
• Self-Management - Able to work unsupervised in an efficient, punctual and structured manner. To examine the outcomes of tasks and events, and judge levels of quality and importance
• Exploring - Able to investigate, research and consider alternatives
• Information retrieval - Able to access different and multiple sources of information
• Inter-personal - Able to question, actively listen, examine given answers and interact sensitevely with others
• Critical analysis & Problem Solving - Able to deconstruct and analyse problems or complex situations. To find solutions to problems through analyses and exploration of all possibilities using appropriate methods, rescources and creativity.
• Presentation - Able to clearly present information and explanations to an audience. Through the written or oral mode of communication accurately and concisely.
• Teamwork - Able to constructively cooperate with others on a common task, and/or be part of a day-to-day working team
• Management - Able to utilise, coordinate and control resources (human, physical and/or financial)
• Argument - Able to put forward, debate and justify an opinion or a course of action, with an individual or in a wider group setting
• Self-awareness & Reflectivity - Having an awareness of your own strengths, weaknesses, aims and objectives. Able to regularly review, evaluate and reflect upon the performance of yourself and others
• Leadership - Able to lead and manage, develop action plans and objectives, offer guidance and direction to others, and cope with the related pressures such authority can result in

Resource implications for students

Student resources: 1. Access to IT/Blackboard for discussion boards and module resources. 2. Access to on-line library catalogues

Reading list

Websites: including Professional Regulatory Organisations; The Graduate Junction; VITAE

Indicative: Bean J. & Hussey L. (1997) Business Planning in the Public Sector. Heinemann Butterworth, London. Bens I. (2005) Advanced Facilitation Strategies: Tools and Techniques to Master Difficult Situations. Jossey Bass, San Francisco. Berkowitz E.N. (2010) Essentials of Health Care Marketing. Jones and Bartlett Learning, Sudbury. D’Sousa S. (2011) Brilliant networking: what the best networkers know, do, and say. Pearson, New York. Greenhalgh T., Robert G., Bate P., et al. (2004) How to Spread Good Ideas - A Systematic Review of the Literature on Diffusion, Dissemination and Sustainability of Innovations in Health . London, England: Report for the National Co-ordinating Centre for NHS Service Delivery and Organisation R & D (NCCSDO). Hage J. & Meeus M. (2009) Innovation, Science and Institutional Change. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Hamlin B., Keep J. & Ash K. (2001) Organizational Change and Development. Prentice Hall, Harlow. Iles, V. & Sutherland, K. (2001). Organisational Change: A Review for Health Care Managers, Professionals and Researchers . London, England: National Co-ordinating Centre for NHS Service Delivery and Organisation for NHS Service Delivery and Organisation R & D (NCCSDO). McNulty T. & Ferlie E. (2002) Reengineering Health Care. The complexities of organizational transformation. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Northouse P.G. (2004) Leadership: Theory and Practice. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks. Wenger E., McDermott R. & Snyder W.M. (2002) Cultivating Communities of Practice. Harvard Business School Press, Boston.

Co-requisite of:

• NHS-4238: Legal and Ethical Concepts