The Department of Primary Care and General Practice has run post graduate MSc accredited and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses for over 10 years. They are aimed at all health care professionals, particularly GPs, practice nurses, specialist nurses, pharmacists and biomedical scientists.
The National Centre for Anticoagulation Training (NCAT) was developed to meet the educational needs of all health care professionals involved in
anticoagulation management.
The current palate of courses has been driven by demand from our students and has now extended to training courses for associated topics, for example, within the spectrum of cardiovascular disease, point of care testing and pharmacology.
Our courses are delivered by leading national figures with lectures based on up-to-the-minute information from within each specialist field. Knowledge is gained through a variety of delivery methods.
Accredited Courses - All accredited courses are clinically based MSc modules set at 20 credits and as such can be undertaken to build up credits towards an MSc in Primary Care Clinical Sciences and Community Health.
The courses
Anticoagulation in Practice 2010 (2 days)
22nd and 23rd April 2010
The Fourth Joint Scientific Meeting of The Anticoagulation Working Party of the PCCS, Anticoagulation Specialist Association, Anticoagulation Europe and Clinical Leaders of Thrombosis.
General Practitioners, Practice Nurses, Biomedical Scientists, Pharmacists and Patients are all invited to attend Anticoagulation in Practice 2010 at the Wolfson Centre, a state of the art conference facility within the Medical School of University of Birmingham For more information please click here.
MSc Accredited
MSc Clinical Primary and Community Care
The Clinical Primary and Community Care Masters course is suitable for doctors, nurses and any other health care professionals aiming to acquire specialised skills and qualifications in primary and community care; for example covering all dimensions required in line with NHS knowledge and skills framework or accreditation for GP/PwSI.
The Clinical Primary and Community Care Masters course is unique in that it combines both academic and clinical aspects of community and primary care and such would provide a clinically applicable higher level of academic achievement.
For more details regarding this course please click here.
Anticoagulation Management in Primary Care
3-days plus 6 months clinical support
Management and prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in the Community
2010 dates tbc
5-days plus 6 months clinical support
Management of Heart Failure in Primary Care
2010 dates tbc
4-days plus 6 months clinical support
An introduction to biomedical ethics
2010 dates tbc
5 days plus 6 months clinical support
Management of Hypertension in Primary Care
Monday 1st - Thursday 4th March 2010
4-days plus 6 months clinical support
Continuing Professional Development
CPD Oral anticoagulation management for health care assistants & assistant practitioners (1 day)
Wednesdays: 10th March, 29th September, 17th November 2010
Battling the bulge: Fighting obesity in the 21st century (1 day)
Thursday 11th March 2010
Travel health and child immunisations (1 day)
12th May 2010
Gastroenterology update for primary care (1 day)
Wednesday 3rd November 2010
New courses for 2010
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) and thromboprophylaxis in primary care – a new problem? (1 day) - 28th June 2010 tbc
Atrial Fibrillation - detection and prevention (2 day) - 2010 dates tbc
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (1 day) - 6th October 2010 tbc
Cancellations - Fees will be refunded on a sliding scale as follows: within 2 weeks prior to course date 25% refunded; 2-4 weeks prior to course date 50% refunded, 4-6 weeks prior to course date 75%; 6 weeks plus 100% refund. It may be possible to transfer your reserved
place to another available date when 6 weeks or more notice is provided, transfers with less than 6 weeks before date of course are subject
to administration fees.
Other information / links
List CPD courses offered by the Medical School, University of Birmingham
List of local accommodation