Service Evaluation and Quality Improvement (APL) MED6036

  • Academic Session: 2024-25
  • School: School of Health and Wellbeing
  • Credits: 10
  • Level: Level 6 (SCQF level 12)
  • Typically Offered: Full Year
  • Available to Visiting Students: No
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No

Short Description

In this module, trainees conduct a piece of service evaluation or quality improvement work of relevance to clinical psychology and the wider health and social care community.

Timetable

Trainees will attend lectures and workshops on service evaluation and quality improvement methods during Years 1 and 2.

 

Later in the programme they will undertake a piece of supervised service evaluation or quality improvement work in the NHS or another relevant setting. Trainees on the 'accreditation of prior learning' (APL) pathway will undertake an individual piece of work under the supervision of a clinician linked with one of their Year 2 or Year 3 placements, with academic support from the programme research tutor. Where feasible, the work undertaken by the trainees will be linked to, or part of, existing quality improvement initiatives that are ongoing in local services

Requirements of Entry

None

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

Trainees on the 31-month APL pathway will submit the following:

Presentation (10-15 minutes) (100%)

Course Aims

1. To enable trainees to conduct a piece of service evaluation or quality improvement work of relevance to clinical psychologists and the wider health and social care community.

2. To support the development of skills in disseminating service evaluation or quality improvement outcomes to a range of stakeholders.

3. To support the development of early-stage leadership competencies in conceptualising and communicating service evaluation and quality improvement issues.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

All learning outcomes are benchmarked to the standards of proficiency and the competence frameworks stipulated by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and the British Psychological Society (BPS).

 

By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the value of service evaluation and quality improvement activities in relation to the development of the profession of clinical psychology and of patient/client care

2. Draw on cross-cutting competencies in academic, clinical and professional practice domains to conduct a piece of service evaluation or quality improvement work that is relevant to clinical psychology practice

3. Demonstrate the ability to present service-related or quality-related data/information clearly and concisely, and interpret it appropriately

4. Demonstrate the ability to communicate evaluation

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit 100% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.