Applicants for the PG Diploma must have successfully completed the PG Certificate in Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals.
The Diploma permits learners a greater degree of choice and specialisation and forms a bridge to the MSc where learners can pursue an educational research topic relevant to their own work place and academic interests. These stages are aimed at those with a developing interest in teaching, learning and assessment, and may be specialising or taking senior roles in educational practice, management and/or research.
Most Units at Diploma level have a value of 20 credits. Unit MEEDM001 is a core compulsory Unit. Students may complete the additional 40 credits required for the Diploma from other Diploma Units, but may, at the discretion of the Programme Director, choose Units of 10 credits from the Certificate stage of the Programme.
All units in this programme are must pass. For the definition of a must pass unit please see the Glossary of Terms from Annex 1 to the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/esu/assessment/annex/glossary.html
Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Teaching Block |
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60 credit points of previously untaken units from: | ||||
Effective Communication Skills Development | MEEDM0019 | 20 | Optional | AYEAR |
Unit MEDIM0216 will be replaced by a 20 credit point version in 2013 and the 15 credit point version will no longer be available | ||||
Research Methods | MEEDM0001 | 20 | Optional | AYEAR |
Supervised Individual Study (Unit 224) | MEDIM0224 | 10 | Optional | AYEAR |
TEL in Education (212) | MEEDM0018 | 20 | Optional | AYEAR |
Clinical and Workplace-Based Teaching | MEEDM0005 | 10 | Optional | AYEAR |
Supporting Learners with Difficulties | MEEDM0006 | 10 | Optional | AYEAR |
Evidence Based Teaching | MEEDM0007 | 10 | Optional | AYEAR |
Course Design | MEEDM0008 | 10 | Optional | AYEAR |
Developing Professionalism (Unit 232) | MEEDM0010 | 10 | Optional | AYEAR |
Professionalism: defining, teaching and assessing | MEEDM0020 | 20 | Optional | AYEAR |
The Arts & Humanities in Medical and Healthcare Education | MEEDM0021 | 20 | Optional | AYEAR |
Teaching Ethics and Law in the Health Professions (Unit 213) | MEEDM0011 | 20 | Optional | AYEAR |
Supporting the Struggling Professional (Unit 233) | MEEDM0012 | 20 | Optional | AYEAR |
Coaching and Mentoring in the Health Professions (Unit 219) | MEEDM0013 | 20 | Optional | AYEAR |
Teaching and Learning using Simulators (Unit 217) | MEEDM0014 | 20 | Optional | AYEAR |
Leading in Education and Training (Unit 231) | MEEDM0015 | 20 | Optional | AYEAR |
PG Diploma in Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals | 60 |
The pass mark set by the University for any level 7(M) unit is 50 out of 100.
For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.
All taught masters programmes, unless exempted by Senate, must allow the opportunity for students to exit from the programme with a postgraduate diploma or certificate.
To be awarded a postgraduate diploma, students must have successfully completed 120 credit points, of which 90 must be at level M/7.
To be awarded a postgraduate certificate, students must have successfully completed 60 credit points, of which 40 must be at level M/7.
An award with Merit or Distinction is permitted for postgraduate taught masters, diplomas and certificates, where these are specifically named entry-level qualifications. An award with Merit or Distinction is not permitted for exit awards where students are required to exit the programme on academic grounds. An exit award with Merit or Distinction may be permitted where students are prevented by exceptional circumstances from completing the intended award.
The classification of the award in relation to the final programme mark is as follows:
Award with Distinction*: at least 65 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 70 out of 100 for the dissertation. **Faculties retain discretion to increase these thresholds.
Award with Merit*: at least 60 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 60 out of 100 for the dissertation. Faculties retain discretion to increase these thresholds.
* The MA in Law has separate regulations for awarding distinction and merit.
** For the award of Distinction, the Faculty of Engineering requires at least 70 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 70 out of 100 for the dissertation.
All taught masters programmes, unless exempted by Senate, must allow the opportunity for students to choose, or be required, to leave at the postgraduate diploma or certificate stage.
To be awarded a postgraduate diploma, students must have successfully completed 120 credit points, of which 90 must be at level M/7.
To be awarded a postgraduate certificate, students must have successfully completed 60 credit points, of which 40 must be at level M/7.
Although shown here as a single year, students can take up to three years to complete the PG Certificate and/or PG Diploma.
To be eligible for the award of Certificate or Diploma students must achieve at least 50% in each unit. Minimum mark for a distinction in any Unit is 70%.