The Department of Primary Care and General Practice has run post graduate MSc accredited and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses for over 10 years. They are aimed at all health care professionals, particularly GPs, practice nurses, specialist nurses, pharmacists and biomedical scientists. Courses are delivered by faculty members and leading national figures with lectures based on up-to-the-minute information from within each specialist field.
Accredited courses are clinically based MSc modules set at 20 credits and as such can be undertaken to build up credits towards an MSc in Primary Care Clinical Sciences and Community Health
Postgraduate Taught – Individual Modules
Anticoagulation Management in Primary Care
3-days plus 6 months clinical support
Management and prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in the Community
Monday 7th - Friday 11th December 2009
5-days plus 6 months clinical support
Management of Hypertension in Primary Care
Monday 1st - Thursday 4th March 2010
4-days plus 6 months clinical support
Management of Heart Failure in Primary Care
Monday 1st - Thursday 4th February 2010
4-days plus 6 months clinical support
Continuing Professional Development Courses
COPD: An update for primary care (1 day)
Wednesday 2nd September 2009
Hospital Acquired VTE: the tip of the iceberg (1 day)
Monday 14th September 2009
Atrial Fibrillation - detection and prevention (1 day)
Wednesday 7th October 2009
An update on travel health (1 day)
Friday 9th October 2009
CPD Oral anticoagulation management for health care assistants & assistant practitioners (1 day)
(All 2009 dates fully booked)
2010 dates: 10th March, 14th July, 29th September, 17th November (Wednesdays)
Gastroenterology update for primary care (1 day)
Wednesday 4th November 2009
Cancellations - Fees will be refunded on a sliding scale as follows: within 2 weeks prior to course date 25% refunded; 2-4 weeks prior to course date 50% refunded, 4-6 weeks prior to course date 75%; 6 weeks plus 100% refund. It may be possible to transfer your reserved place to another available date when 6 weeks or more notice is provided, transfers with less than 6 weeks before date of course are subject to administration fees.
All post graduate and CPD courses offered by the medical school can be viewed by visiting www.medicine.bham.ac.uk/pg/
