MSc Skin Integrity and Wound Management
Key information
Course Leader: Madeleine Flanagan
Level: 7
Start date: Semester A or Semester B start
Mode of delivery: Blended learning
School: Life & Medical Sciences
Entry Requirements
The normal entry requirements for the programme are:
- A degree in a healthcare discipline (or equivalent) and be registered with a professional and statutory body
and
- The equivalent of 2 years Full Time post qualifying experience including a minimum of 6 months Full Time (or equivalent) in a substantive speciality post in skin integrity or wound management (primary or secondary care).
and
- Current clinical experience in a clinical setting with access to patients with chronic wounds / compromised skin integrity.
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Home part time students - before making your application - You must read the information about programme structure in the course notes below, to make the correct module choices.
The MSc Clinical Skin Integrity and Wound Management offers students a range of wound and skin integrity related modules that appeal to healthcare professionals who want to develop a deeper understanding of chronic wound healing and conditions affecting skin integrity. This programme combines the closely related specialties of wound management and dermatology and is unique.The programme allows flexibility to study related specialist content to broaden student’s clinical expertise which is invaluable in today’s competitive workplace and brings a richness to the overall programme from an inter-professional and intra-professional perspective.
This programme aims to:
- develop methods of inquiry and skills required to research and advance skin integrity and wound care practice using an in-depth current and relevant evidence base.
- provide knowledge and understanding to foster the further development of critical, contemporary, evidence based and patient-centred practice in skin integrity and wound care
- develop a systematic advanced knowledge and understanding of the application of specialist skin integrity practice in the context of multi-professional and inter-professional working in the contemporary healthcare setting.
Prerequisites
The normal entry requirements for the programme are:
- A degree in a healthcare discipline (or equivalent) and be registered with a professional and statutory body
and
- The equivalent of 2 years Full Time post qualifying experience including a minimum of 6 months Full Time (or equivalent) in a substantive speciality post in skin integrity or wound management (primary or secondary care).
and
- Current clinical experience in a clinical setting with access to patients with chronic wounds / compromised skin integrity.
Level
7
Credits
180
Course Leader
Madeleine Flanagan
Start date
Semester A or Semester B start
Mode of delivery
Blended learning
Faculty
Life & Medical Sciences