MSc Advanced Clinical Practice - Apprenticeship

Year 1

You will study the evidence underpinning advanced clinical practice, the biological basis of illness and how pathology relates to signs and symptoms in the individual. You will learn how to assess these signs and symptoms through history taking, and physical and mental health assessment, and how to formulate this information into clinical diagnoses and a plan of care.

Core modules

You will take core modules, which may include:

• Evidence Based Practice
• Clinical Assessment
• Diagnostics

Year 2

You will explore professional issues faced by Advanced Clinical Practitioners and look at how to manage risk and gain resilience. You will also examine the broad context of health, including public health, and how the Advanced Clinical Practitioner can influence outcomes in the healthcare context. You can also qualify as a non-medical prescriber (if you are not already one).

Core modules

You will take core modules, which may include:

• Developing Advanced Clinical Practice

Option modules

You will take a selection of option modules, examples of which may include:

Option A (if you are eligible for non-medical prescribing)

• Independent and Supplementary Prescribing
• Developing Professional Practice

Option B (if you are not eligible for non-medical prescribing)

• Medicines Management
• Developing Professional Practice

Year 3

You will complete a dissertation in the form of a service improvement project, which you will implement in your own clinical area.

• Service Improvement Project
• Transition to Advanced Clinical Practice - this module is a synoptic assessment of the knowledge, skills and behaviours learned through the programme

In your final year, you will complete a dissertation in the form of a service improvement project, which will enable you to undertake and implement a project relevant to your own practice and place of work.

Every course at York has been designed to provide clear and ambitious learning outcomes. These learning outcomes give you an understanding of what you will be able to do at the end of the course. We develop each course by designing modules that grow your abilities towards the learning outcomes and help you to explain what you can offer to employers. Find out more about our approach to teaching and learning.

• Use their expertise and decision making skills to inform clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with differentiated and undifferentiated individuals' presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make evidence-based judgements or diagnoses to provide person-centred care.
• Practise with a high level of autonomy and be accountable for decisions and omissions, adhering to codes of conduct, professional standards and scope of practice, and demonstrating application of relevant, subject-specific competencies, knowledge and behaviours to enhance the care and experience of individuals.
• Exercise professional judgement to assess and manage risk, facilitating individuals to make informed choices, initiating, evaluating and modifying a range of interventions, and working with multi-agency and interprofessional resources to empower individuals to participate in decisions about their care.
• Work collaboratively to evaluate own and others' practice, acting as a role model and mentor, engaging in and developing strategies to act on learning, advocating for and contributing to the development of a culture that supports lifelong learning and development.
• Demonstrate self and team leadership in managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex or unpredictable, being resilient, receptive to challenges and prepared to constructively challenge others and to initiate and manage change at the level of individual, team or organisation, underpinned by theoretical approaches.
• Engage in collaborative working to develop and apply evidence (generated through evaluation, audit and research) to inform policy/procedures to drive service development and influence clinical practices to enhance quality, productivity and value.