PGDip Advanced Critical Care Practitioner
The aim of the Advanced Critical Care Practitioner programme from University of Birmingham is to develop a new professional able to safely fulfil a proportion of those roles currently only undertaken by medically qualified intensive care trainees in the National Health Service.
Quick Facts
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Part-Time Duration: |
27 months |
Starting in: |
September |
Tuition Fee: |
TBA |
Location: |
Online |
This new role is seen to be important in pioneering the shift of work, traditionally done only by doctors, to new, non-medically trained grades of staff. It also addresses the current workforce planning problems in critical care.
This Advanced Critical Care Practitioner programme from University of Birmingham allows students to extend their studies beyond the qualification required for registration (PG Diploma: Advanced Critical Care Practitioner) to an MSc, by satisfactorily completing a dissertation.
Why study this course?
Following on from the success of the Physicians’ Assistant (Anaesthesia) and other non-medical practitioner roles there has been renewed interest in the development of the role of Advanced Critical Care Practitioners (ACCP) from surrounding Trusts.
Courses included:
- Clinical practice
- Anaesthesia and intensive care
- Physics in anaesthesia and intensive care
- The anaesthesia machine and monitoring, intensive care ventilators
- The heart and circulation
- The airways and lungs
- The kidneys, liver, endocrine system and blood
- The brain and nervous system