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Faculty of Health, Psychology & Social Care

Working in Emergency Medicine?

Do you want an academic qualification in your speciality?

MSc Emergency Medicine

MSc Emergency Medicine
(Emergency Nursing)
MSc Emergency Medicine
(Paediatric Emergency
Medicine)
MSc Emergency Medicine
(Emergency Nursing)

Have you considered taking a course

which:
Can validate your professional
training?
Develops your knowledge and
skills?
Is tailored to meet your career
requirements?
Provides a number of different
routes to reflect different career
focuses?
Is delivered predominantly on line
and
Can be undertaken in your own time?

Introduction
Due to the success of our MSc
Emergency Medicine programme
portfolio, we can now offer three new
routes through the degree. So whether
you are an emergency consultant,
paediatric emergency physician,
senior emergency nurse or a military
emergency physician or nurse, this
course will enable you to broaden your
knowledge and skills, whilst supporting
your career development.

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Designed entirely by physicians and

nurses working in emergency care, our
programme can be tailored to your specific
focus and three of these routes are
outlined below. Teaching is on-line, and
based around a virtual hospital with
problem based learning, online lectures,
tutorials, web links and online discussions
with your colleagues and fellow students.
The course is made up of two phases.
Phase One provides a variety of core and
elective modules from which you can
select a personalised route for academic
assessment. The units depend on the
route you wish to follow and the elective
units chosen build on this to explore
particular interests. Units are offered on
a rolling programme so over the course
of your study, almost all units are likely
to be available.
Students are able to choose to study to
Postgraduate Certificate or Postgraduate
Diploma level or to continue their studies
to achieve a Masters level qualification.
To be considered for entry to this
programme, candidates must currently be
working as either a registered medical
practitioner or nurse in an area of urgent
or emergency care and successfully
complete an interview with one of the
admissions tutors, (usually by telephone).
Students for whom English is a second
language must hold IELTS (language test)
and achieve the Academic Standard at 7.0
or above, prior to admissions onto the
programme Other specific practice
requirements are in place for Paediatric
and Military Emergency Medicine
routes.
The PGCert Emergency Management
has been developed for those senior staff
in emergency departments who may have
completed their professional training but
want a postgraduate qualification which
reflects their management function.
Students on this route will be required to
undertake three management units:
Human Resource Management in the
Emergency Department; Legal Aspects of
Emergency Medicine; and Managing the
Emergency Department.

If you choose the Education route

though this programme you will bring
60 credits to the programme in the
form of a Postgraduate Certificate in
Education at level 7. You will complete
the core requirements for Phase 1 of this
programme and will be able to exit at
that point with an award of a PGDip
Emergency Medicine (with Education)
or proceed to Phase 2 to be considered
for the award of MSc Emergency
Medicine (with Education).
Students who wish to focus on Major
Incident Management will bring 60
credits to the programme in the form
of a Postgraduate Certificate in Health
Incident Command and undertake 60
credits of core units, exiting with a
postgraduate diploma or continuing
to phase 2 of the programme.

Where will I study?

This course is managed online. The
course team and library and other
campus facilities are based at Elizabeth
Gaskell Campus, which is situated on
Hathersage Road opposite the
Manchester Royal Infirmary.

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MSc Emergency Medicine curriculum map

Phase 1
Clinical Core Option/
Option Units
Students must complete
2 of 6 clinical units
All clinical units have
the pre requisite of an
undergraduate medical
qualification
Research Core Option/
Option Units
Students must complete 1
of 2 research units
Management Core/
Option Units
Mandatory Core Units for
PgCert Emergency
Management
Other Option Units

Phase 2
Phase 2 Project
60 Credits
Mandatory Core Unit

Acute Medical
Emergencies 1
20 Credits

Paediatric
Emergencies
20 Credits

Surgical
Emergencies
20 Credits

Acute Medical
Emergencies 2
20 Credits

Psychosocial
Emergencies
20 Credits

Trauma
Emergencies
20 Credits

Evidence-based
Emergency Practice
20 Credits

Study Design and Execution

in Emergency Medicine
20 Credits

Human Resource
Management in the
Emergency Department
20 Credits

Legal Aspects of
Emergency Medicine
20 Credits

Emergency Life Support

40 Credits

Major Incident Management

20 Credits

Managing the Emergency

Department
20 Credits

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MSc Emergency Medicine (Military Emergency Medicine)

Phase 1
Core Units
these clinical units have the
pre requisite of professional
registration in medicine
or nursing
Research Core Option/
Option Units
Students must complete 1 of
2 research units for the
PgDip and MSc awards
Clinical Option Units
All these clinical units have
the pre requisite of an
undergraduate medical
qualification
Other Option Units

Phase 2
Phase 2 Project
60 Credits
Mandatory Core Unit

Combat Casualty Care

20 Credits

Military Pre-Hospital Care

20 Credits

Managing Emergencies in
a Military Setting
20 Credits

Evidence-based Emergency
Practice
20 Credits

Study Design and Execution

in Emergency Medicine
20 Credits

Acute Medical Emergencies 1

20 Credits

Paediatric Emergencies
20 Credits

Surgical Emergencies
20 Credits

Acute Medical Emergencies 2

20 Credits

Psychosocial Emergencies
20 Credits

Trauma Emergencies
20 Credits

Human Resource Management

in the Emergency Department
20 Credits

Legal Aspects of Emergency

Medicine
20 Credits

Managing the Emergency

Department
20 Credits

Emergency Life Support

40 Credits

Major Incident Management

20 Credits

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MSc Emergency Medicine (Paediatric Emergency Medicine)

Phase 1
Core Units

Paediatric Emergencies
20 Credits

Further Management of
Paediatric Medical
Emergencies
20 Credits

Research Core Option/

Option Units

Evidence-based
Emergency Practice
20 Credits

Study Design and Execution

in Emergency Medicine
20 Credits

Acute Medical
Emergencies 1
20 Credits

Psychosocial
Emergencies
20 Credits

Acute Medical
Emergencies 2
20 Credits

Surgical
Emergencies
20 Credits

Human Resource
Management in the
Emergency Department
20 Credits

Legal Aspects of
Emergency Medicine
20 Credits

Students must complete 1

of 2 research units for the
PgDip and MSc awards
Clinical Option Units
All clinical units have
the pre requisite of an
undergraduate medical
qualification

Other Option Units

Emergency Life Support

40 Credits

Phase 2
Phase 2 Project
60 Credits
Mandatory Core Unit

Major Incident Management

20 Credits

Further Management of
Paediatric Surgical and
Psychosocial Emergencies
20 Credits

Trauma
Emergencies
20 Credits

Managing the Emergency

Department
20 Credits

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Curriculum Map of MSc Emergency Medicine (Emergency Nursing)

Phase 1
Clinical Core Option/
Option Units

Minor Illness Management

20 Credits

Minor Injury Management

20 Credits

All these clinical units have

the pre requisite of
professional registration
in nursing

Medical Emergencies
20 Credits

Psychosocial Emergencies
20 Credits

Paediatric Emergencies
20 Credits

Surgical Emergencies
20 Credits

All these clinical units have

the pre requisite of
professional registration
in medicine or nursing

Combat Casualty Care

20 Credits

Military Pre-Hospital Care

20 Credits

Research Core Option/

Option Units

Evidence-based Emergency
Practice
20 Credits

Study Design and Execution

in Emergency Medicine
20 Credits

Human Resource
Management in the
Emergency Department
20 Credits

Legal Aspects of Emergency

Medicine
20 Credits

Managing the Emergency

Department
20 Credits

Major Incident Management

20 Credits

Leadership in Urgent Care

Settings
20 credits

students must complete 3

clinical units

Students must complete 1

of 2 research units for the
PgDip and MSc awards
Option Units

Emergency Life Support

40 Credits

Trauma Emergencies
20 Credits

Managing Emergencies
in a Military Setting
20 Credits

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Phase 2
Phase 2 Project
60 Credits
Mandatory Core Unit

The academic and professional

requirements for acceptance onto single
units within the programme are that the
student must:

Phase two is a dissertation, requiring a

presentation of a substantial practitioner
project in the field of emergency medicine
in an area of your choice.

possess a relevant professional

qualification (which may not
necessarily be as a registered medical
practitioner);

This final piece of work will include:

be practising or have practiced in an

area of urgent or emergency care;

A draft paper for publication

have at least 2 years practical

experience;
have evidence of recent study within
the higher education framework.

A clinical topic review

A Project report

For more information on the units and

programme provided, please view the
course details on our online 2012
Postgraduate Prospectus, or for an
informal discussion about the programme,
please contact the course leaders,
Professor Janet Marsden
j.marsden@mmu.ac.uk or
Professor Kevin Mackway-Jones
k.mackway-jones@mmu.ac.uk

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The Faculty of Health,

Psychology and Social Care
The Faculty of Health, Psychology &
Social Care offers a wide portfolio of
undergraduate, postgraduate and
professional programmes on both a full
and part-time basis.
Together these programmes span a range
of academic disciplines within the caring
and enabling professions, including social
work, psychology, nursing, social change,
community work, physiotherapy,
acupuncture, speech and language
therapy and other health-related subjects.

For further information about study opportunities in the Faculty of Health,

Psychology & Social Care, please visit our website at www.hpsc.mmu.ac.uk.
This information is correct at the time of going to press. For terms and conditions applicable to the provision of the
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