The Clinical Education Degree Apprenticeship is the first programme of its kind in the UK. It is designed to support you to become an engaging and inspiring clinical educator, through workplace and off-the-job learning.

Study part-time alongside your professional commitments

Apply what you’ve learned directly to your own workplace

Get input and support from both Queen Mary academic staff and the educational supervisor at your NHS Trust

Engage with like-minded colleagues and share best practice

Earn while you learn with your fees paid by your NHS Trust employer

What you'll study

This PGCert Clinical Education (Apprenticeship) has been specifically designed for doctors, dentists, senior nurses, allied health professionals and academics, involved in undergraduate or postgraduate teaching of clinicians. We currently partner with three NHS Trusts to deliver this apprenticeship: Barts Health NHS Trust, Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust & South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust, and we are happy to partner with other Trusts.

The programme focuses on workplace learning, allowing you to understand the complex relationships between practice and theory, through researching, leading and developing teaching and learning in your own clinical setting.

You will be given opportunities to develop knowledge and skills as educators, using your own practice and workplace setting as a research context. You will engage with like-minded colleagues and analyse the nature and dynamics of teaching and learning in clinical education, drawing on a wide range of educational theories. This programme requires you to become an active researcher of clinical education in order to develop teaching and learning opportunities for students.

Assessment

Assessments include written assignments, an academic practice assessment (teaching observation) and a professional conversation (viva voce)

Assessments involve researching and developing clinical education within your own workplace

End Point Assessment is externally assessed and gives you the opportunity to demonstrate attainment of the relevant skills, knowledge and behaviours