Postgraduate Course: Management Issues in Paediatric Emergency Medicine (GMED11117)
Course Outline
| School | School of Clinical Sciences | 
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine | 
 
| Course type | Online Distance Learning | 
Availability | Not available to visiting students | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) | 
Credits | 20 | 
 
| Home subject area | General Courses (Medicine) | 
Other subject area | None | 
   
| Course website | 
None | 
Taught in Gaelic? | No | 
 
| Course description | This programme is designed to ensure that practitioners are able to understand the principles and practice of Public Health, and of the Organisational aspects of delivering Paediatric Emergency Medicine. | 
 
 
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
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Co-requisites |  | 
 
| Prohibited Combinations |  | 
Other requirements |  None | 
 
| Additional Costs |  None | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15  Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 
  
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Learn enabled:  Yes | 
Quota:  None | 
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Web Timetable  | 
	
Web Timetable | 
 
| Course Start Date | 
12/01/2015 | 
 
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) | 
 
 Total Hours:
200
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 Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
196 )
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| Additional Notes | 
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) | 
 
  Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information | 
 
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes 
| At the completion of the course the candidate should have an understanding of:  Injury Prevention in Children; Immunisation in the Emergency Department and Quality of Care in the Emergency Department. | 
 
 
Assessment Information 
| Formal summative written assessment will constitute 60% of the student's grade.  Online assessment will incorporate a variety of activities and will constitute 40% of their overall course grade and is taken to represent a formative assessment of learning throughout the programme. |  
 
Special Arrangements 
| None |   
 
Additional Information 
| Academic description | 
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| Syllabus | 
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| Transferable skills | 
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| Reading list | 
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| Study Abroad | 
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| Study Pattern | 
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| Keywords | Not entered | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Thomas Beattie 
Tel:  
Email: Tom.Beattie@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Miss Lisa Horsburgh 
Tel: 0131 536 0803 
Email: Lisa.Horsburgh@ed.ac.uk | 
   
 
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