40 credit level 6 or level 7 module
Page last updated 15 October 2024
You may be able to study these modules at Level 6 (BSc level) or Level 7 (Masters level) depending on your academic circumstances. Please contact the CPD Team or the Module Leader for advice if you are unsure which level would be best for you.
This Advancing Practice in Clinical Assessment, Reasoning and Differential Diagnosis for Urgent, Emergency and Primary Care Practitioners (APiCA) module has been redesigned to incorporate clinical examination skills and practice for urgent and emergency practitioners (40 credits) and clinical reasoning for urgent and emergency practitioners (20 credits). It is now a 40 credit module.
The APiCA module, available at either level 6 (UZWK9N-40-3) or level 7 (UZWK9M-40-M), has been developed to prepare practitioners with a professional registration in healthcare for a clinical role as an advancing autonomous practitioner working within a range of settings such as pre-hospital; community; primary; urgent; or emergency care.
This module will prepare you to take a focused history; examine patients using a systems based approach; request appropriate diagnostic tests; interpret these; make a differential diagnosis and construct an evidenced based management plan for a range of patients and service users presenting with an undifferentiated range of symptoms. This will require demonstration of a higher degree of complex decision-making skills, expertise and knowledge in managing risk and diagnostics effectively and safely in the clinical context and environment within which you work.
On successful completion of this module, you will be able to:
You must be a registered healthcare professional with the Nursing and Midwifery Council; General Pharmaceutical Health Council; or Health and Care Professions Council.
You must also be working with patients on first presentation in a pre-hopsital, community, primary care, acute or urgent care environment.
In agreement with the Module Leader:
The Level 6 module can contribute towards:
The level 7 module can contribute towards:
The course syllabus typically includes the following:
Skills
Context of physical assessment and clinical reasoning
A variety of approaches will be used which may include e-learning, lectures, practical sessions, seminars, experts from practice, analysis of case studies, problem-based learning, online patient scenarios and self-directed study.
Supervised physical assessment practice sessions undertaken throughout the module.
There is a total of 400 hours to be allocated:
Assessment of this module comprises the following:
1. Practice Competency Document
Successful completion of identified competencies. Learners will include clinical logs demonstrating evidence-based critical reflection of different episodes of care to inform their achievement of competencies. The practice competency document will be assessed in practice by the identified mentor. The assessment will allow the student to demonstrate developing practice and autonomous clinical decision making.
2. An Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)
The student will be expected to take a clinical history from a standardised patient and perform the relevant clinical examination. The student will be expected to suggest a provisional diagnosis and a safe management plan relative to autonomous practice. An oral discussion will follow to allow the student to demonstrate autonomous clinical decision making.
Formative assessment:
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