Advanced Clinical Practice
Unit 1: 10 – 12 June 2010
Unit 2: 3 – 4 September 2010
Venue: Sheffield
Cost: £660 members / £700 non-members
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The module isn’t just about advanced techniques but focuses on your advancement in the orthopaedic medicine approach by revising, improving and developing your practical and clinical reasoning skills. You will also be given the tools for literature searching and evaluating research and an opportunity to develop your presentation and communication skills. You will be involved in group discussions and encouraged to share your experience with your peers through the critical examination of complex clinical cases. The overall aim of the module is to facilitate and confirm your growth as an advanced practitioner and past students have enjoyed the unhurried pace and challenge of the module and the tangible benefit to their clinical practice.
Module Structure
| Code: | SOM3 |
| Title: | Advanced Clinical Practice in Orthopaedic Medicine |
| Level: | 4 |
| Credit points: | 20 |
| Pre-requisite: | Must be a Member of the Society of Orthopaedic Medicine (or have fully satisfied the assessment requirements of an affiliated association) |
| Teaching hours: | 24 |
| Teaching/Learning Strategies | Lecture, Demonstration, Group work, Tutorials, Presentation |
| Total study hours: | 180 |
| Module Leader: | Dr Elaine Atkins |
Rationale and aims
This module intends to review and develop the manual skills of medical practitioners and chartered physiotherapists (or those with an equivalent overseas qualification) as applied in clinical practice in orthopaedic medicine. It is targeted at those students who have completed the Society of Orthopaedic Medicine Membership course (or the course of an affiliated association) and who wish to develop their skills in and review the evidence base of in orthopaedic medicine, based on their continuing clinical experience.
Learning outcomes
On completion of the module students will be able to: -
- Critically evaluate their clinical orthopaedic medicine practice indicating ‘value added’ through the integration of the approach into their professional practice
- Extrapolate and inter-relate a comprehensive knowledge base into advanced practice of orthopaedic medicine
- Demonstrate advancement in their mastery of handling skills in the performance of orthopaedic medicine techniques
- Critically discuss and debate current theory underpinning orthopaedic medicine practice and contribute to the development of the taught techniques through a creative and innovative approach to practice
- Take the lead in promoting the practice of orthopaedic medicine, and in further developing the evidence base of practice
Outline of content
- The concept of advanced practice
- Evaluation and development of regional techniques used in orthopaedic medicine
- Introduction and evaluation of advanced techniques used in orthopaedic medicine
- Evaluation and identification of lacunae within the specialism
- Methods of critical review
- Developing the evidence base of orthopaedic medicine
- Presentation of case reports
For further information contact: David Locke, david.locke@somed.org Courses Administrator, SOM, 4th Floor, 151 Dale Street, Liverpool, L2 2AH.
