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Postgraduate Certificate - PGCert
Edge Hill University
Part Time
Feb 2027
1 Year
This course is designed to strengthen your teaching skills and develop your professional practice, making it ideal for those who support learning in practice settings, including mentors, practice educators and clinical supervisors. It also provides a strong foundation if you’re looking to progress into a formal education role or a career in healthcare education.
The PGCert Health Professions Education offers you a transformative learning experience with a fresh approach. With support from an expert multidisciplinary teaching team, you’ll be encouraged to challenge traditional approaches within clinical practice and consider how you can use creativity and inclusivity can shape more innovative and progressive teaching and learning experiences.
Through supportive, inclusive teaching approaches and flexible, innovative assessment methods, you’ll be able to develop your knowledge in ways that work for you. You’ll also have the opportunity to build a portfolio of professional teaching experience to support your professional development.
Whether you’re looking to enhance your current role or take the next step towards a career in healthcare education, this course will give you the knowledge, confidence and practical insight to support learner development across a range of clinical and educational environments. You’ll build confidence as a clinical educator while developing a strong foundation in pedagogy, innovation and transformative clinical practice.
Promoting Excellence in Healthcare Education focuses on designing inclusive and engaging learning experiences that support diverse learners in clinical settings. You will explore how well-structured educational activities enhance engagement, confidence, and deeper learning. Emphasis is placed on creating authentic, transformative experiences that connect theory to practice and encourage critical reflection. The module also highlights the link between educational quality and patient outcomes, supporting you to embed inclusive, reflective, and evidence-informed approaches into your teaching, and to contribute to safe, compassionate, and effective clinical practice.
Evidencing Practice From Clinician to Educator is an online module that supports your development as a confident and capable clinical educator, combining flexible, asynchronous learning with structured support. Delivered on our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), you will access a range of tailored resources to guide your learning and prepare for a digital portfolio assessment. Through critical reflection on your own practice, you will explore the relationship between theory and real-world clinical education, using professional standards and evidence-based approaches. The module also supports the development of a sustainable CPD plan, enabling you to enhance your teaching, contribute to learner development, and promote safe, high-quality, person-centred care.
Transformative Teaching for Meaningful Impact explores contemporary approaches to learning, assessment, and feedback within clinical environments, with a very strong emphasis on the impact of transformative teaching and learning on patient outcomes. The module is grounded in current evidence and professional standards, it provides practitioners with the critical skills needed to enhance learner development, support professional capability, and strengthen patient safety.
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