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World: Postgraduate Diploma in Remote and Offshore Medicine

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Country: World
Organization: The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Diploma in Remote and Offshore Medicine (DipROM), Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Providing clinical care in remote locations has its own unique challenges and requires specialist knowledge and skills. This course, delivered online at a distance, provides an opportunity for practising remote health professionals to gain a postgraduate qualification in this emerging specialty. The main aim of the programme is to provide health professionals working in remote, and in some instances potentially hazardous, locations the knowledge and skills to operate effectively in this environment using an evidence based approach.To this end, students taking this programme will expect to:

  • Acquire and apply theoretical knowledge underpinning effective evidence based clinical care in remote environments
  • Explain and incorporate into clinical care the effects of specific physical environments on the health and well-being of remote workers

Modules

  • Health and Wellbeing of the Remote Worker
  • Occupational Health in the Remote Setting
  • Communication in the Clinical Setting
  • Telemedicine
  • Dive Medicine
  • Tropical Medicine
  • Aeromedicine
  • Trauma and Medical Emergencies
  • Incident and Response Planning
  • Evidence and Research in Remote Medicine
  • Tactical Medicine
  • Expedition and Wilderness Medicine
  • Learning and Teaching
  • Humanitarian and Disaster Medicine

Learning Hours
Each module is approximately 100 hours of student learning over a period of 3 months, so approximately 10 hours per week. It is intended that students are able to study part-time while working.

Entry Requirements
Normally an undergraduate health-related degree or relevant health-related professional qualification and current work in the Remote Medical Care area. If you do not meet these criteria, you are welcome to contact us to discuss your application further as all applicants are individually reviewed with regard to their previous qualifications and experience and it may be possible for you to join the programme. All applications are reviewed by the Programme Leader and Academic Co-ordinator.

Those applicants for whom English is not their first language, must be able to demonstrate a satisfactory level of both spoken and written English. This should be equivalent to at least the level of post-secondary (high) school.

Exit Awards
Postgraduate Diploma (12 modules + Residential) / Postgraduate Certificate (6 modules) / CPD Certificate (individual modules)

Costs (2015-16)
The payment plan options for all new students joining the programme will be to either pay the programme fees in full (this option protects from further inflationary increases) or to pay per module (module fees are subject to inflationary increases each year).

  • Full Diploma - £6372
  • Full Certificate - £3182
  • Pay per Module - £531/module

Delivery
Online (with one residential element in Edinburgh, Scotland for Diploma students)

Duration
Diploma: 3-5 years
Certificate: 1-3 years
CPD: 3 months

Start Dates
March and September

Application Deadline
4 weeks prior to programme launch

Website: http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/education/academic-programmes/remote-and-offshore-medicine.aspx


How to register:

All applications are made online through our secure online application site.


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