Postgraduate Taught Modules for 2022-23
The modules in this section are only applicable to students who will be studying them between September 2022 and August 2023.
If you intend to study one of these modules from September 2023 or later, you may refer to these descriptors as a guide; but please be aware that details they contain – including (but not limited to) reading lists, duration and assessments – may change for your academic year.
We are committed to providing an outstanding education and high quality teaching. You can find out details of your modules and any potential changes on these pages. If you are a returning student, joining after the first year or a postgraduate student details of your module changes will be provided in August.
| Code | Module Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
|
Statistics As Applied To Health |
15 | |
| HPDM055 | Qualitative Methods and Process Evaluations | 15 |
| HPDM059 | Leading change in Health Services | 15 |
| HPDM065 | Care of the Older Adult | 15 |
| HPDM080 | Leadership in Healthcare | 15 |
| HPDM081 | Management in Healthcare | 15 |
| HPDM092 | Fundamentals of Research Design | 15 |
| HPDM102 | Human Factors – Situational Awareness | 15 |
| HPDM103 |
Teaching Practitioner | 15 |
| HPDM105 | Education Essentials | 15 |
| HPDM110 | Teaching in a Digital World | 15 |
| HPDM111 | Health challenges in sport and exercise medicine | 15 |
| HPDM112 | Orthopaedic challenges in sport and exercise medicine | 15 |
| HPDM118 | Structuring and Solving Public Health Problems | 15 |
| HPDM127 | Principles of primary care |
15 |
| HPDM128 | Principles of Advanced Clinical Practice | 30 |
| HPDM129 | Axial Skeletal Reporting | 30 |
| HPDM130 | Appendicular Skeletal Reporting | 30 |
| HPDM132 | Advanced Skill Development | 45 |
| HPDM133 | Advanced Clinical Assessment and Decision-Making Skills | 30 |
| HPDM136 | Evidence to Decision: Health Technology Assessment, Health Policy and Resource Allocation | 15 |
| HPDM138 | MRI: Integrated theory and Practice | 30 |
| HPDM142 | Principles of Supervision, Mentoring and Coaching | 15 |
| HPDM147 | Practice Certificate in Independent and Supplementary Prescribing | 45 |
| HPDM152 | Advanced Clinical Practice Improvement Project | 30 |
| HPDM153 | Minor illness: Managing Common and Not-So-Common Conditions | 15 |
| HPDM156 | Long-term Condition Care (Respiratory, Endocrine and Renal) | 15 |
| HPDM157 | Long-term Condition Care (Cardiovascular) | 15 |
| Code | Module Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
|
Education Essentials |
15 | |
| Principles of Supervision, Mentoring and Coaching | 15 | |
| Assessing Learning | 15 | |
| Teaching Practitioner | 15 | |
| Introduction to Literature Reviews | 15 | |
| Researching Clinical Education | 15 | |
| Teaching in a Digital World | 15 | |
| Principles of Curriculum Design and Evaluation | 15 | |
| Independent Research | 60 |
| Code | Module Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
|
Applied therapeutics |
15 | |
|
Long-term Condition Care (Respiratory, Endocrine and Renal) |
15 | |
|
Care of the older adult |
15 | |
|
Long-term Condition Care (Cardiovascular) |
15 | |
|
Minor Illness: Managing Common and Not-So-Common Conditions |
15 | |
|
Practice Certificate in Independent and Supplementary Prescribing |
45 | |
|
Advanced Clinical Assessment and Decision-making Skills |
30 | |
|
Principles of primary care |
15 | |
|
Work-based learning |
15 | |
|
Leadership in Healthcare |
15 | |
|
Management in Healthcare |
15 | |
|
Leading change in health services |
15 | |
|
Education Essentials |
15 | |
|
Teaching Practitioner |
15 | |
|
Principles of Supervision and Mentoring |
15 | |
|
Structuring and Solving Public Health Problems |
15 | |
|
Independent Research |
60 |
|
Code |
Module Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| HPDM027 |
Contemporary Environment and Human Health |
15 |
| HPDM028 |
Postgraduate Skills and Evidence |
15 |
| HPDM029Z |
Nature, Health and Wellbeing |
15 |
| HPDM030Z |
Environmental Science and Population Health |
15 |
| HPDM032Z |
Ecological Public Health |
15 |
| HPDM083Z |
Project Design |
15 |
| HPDM033Z |
Global Public Health and Environmental Change |
15 |
| HPDM140Z |
The Global Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis |
15 |
| HPDM000 |
Dissertation |
60 |
| GEOM407 |
Perspectives on Sustainable Development |
15 |
| HUMM011 |
Heritage and Environmental Change |
15 |
| GEOM404 |
Policy and governance for sustainability |
15 |
| HPDM122 |
Planetary Health |
15 |
| HPDM124 |
Principles Of Health Protection |
15 |
| POLM016 |
Food Systems, Alternative Food Networks, and Ethical Consumption |
15 |
| HPDM140Z |
The Global Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis |
15 |
| BIOM4045 |
New Antimicrobial Therapies |
15 |
| HPDM141 |
Pandemics: drivers, preparedness and response |
15 |
|
Code |
Module Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| HPDM100 |
Core Concepts in Extreme Medicine |
30 |
| HPDM102 |
Human Factors – Situational Awareness |
15 |
| HPDM070 |
Humanitarian and Disaster Relief - Theory |
15 |
| HPDM071 |
Humanitarian and Disaster Relief - Practical |
15 |
| HPDM073 |
Special Environment – Mountain |
15 |
| HPDM072 |
Special Environment – Jungle |
15 |
| HPDM074 |
Special Environment – Polar |
15 |
| HPDM075 |
Medicine at the Final Frontier |
15 |
| HPDM077 |
Special Environment – Winter Alpine Medicine |
15 |
| HPDM085 |
Special Environment – Ocean |
15 |
| HPDM086 |
Special Environment – Desert |
15 |
| HPDM137 |
Wilderness Expedition Dentistry |
15 |
| HPDM094 |
Dive Medicine |
30 |
| HPDM148 |
Independent Research |
60 |
|
Code |
Module Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| HPDM082A |
Fundamentals of Human Genetics and Genomics |
15 |
| HPDM036 |
Omics Techniques and their Application to Genomic Medicine |
15 |
| HPDM041 |
Bioinformatics, Interpretation, Statistics and Data Quality Assurance |
15 |
| HPDM042 |
Research Project (Data analysis) |
60 |
| HPDM043 |
Research Project (Literature) |
30 |
| HPDM037 |
Genomics of Common and Rare Disorders |
15 |
| HPDM038 |
Molecular Pathology of Cancer and Application in Cancer Diagnosis, Screening and Treatment |
15 |
| HPDM039 |
Pharmacogenomics and Stratified Healthcare |
15 |
| BIOM567 |
Application of Genomics in Infectious Disease |
15 |
| HPDM045 |
Counselling Skills for Genomics |
15 |
| HPDM044 |
Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Applied Genomics |
15 |
| HPDM049 |
Epigenetics in Human Health and Diseases |
15 |
| HPDM088 |
Health Economic Evaluation in Genomics |
15 |
| HPDM046 |
Advanced Bioinformatics, Interpretation, Statistics and Data Quality Assurance |
15 |
|
Code |
Module Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| HPDM139 |
Coding for Machine Learning and Data Science |
15 |
| HPDM092 |
Fundamentals of Research Design |
15 |
| HPDM096 |
Health statistics for data scientists |
15 |
| ECMM445 |
Learning from Data |
15 |
| HPDM097 |
Making a difference with health data |
30 |
| HPDM098 |
Stratified Medicine |
30 |
| HPDM099 |
Research Project |
60 |
|
Code |
Module Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| HPDM058 |
Implementation Science |
15 |
| HPDM059 |
Leading Change in Health Services |
15 |
| HPDM105 |
Leadership in Healthcare |
15 |
| HPDM081 |
Management in Healthcare |
15 |
| HPDM092 |
Fundamentals of Research Design |
15 |
| HPDM057 |
Health economics |
15 |
| HPDM057 |
Education Essentials |
15 |
| HPDM106 |
Principles of Supervision and Mentoring |
15 |
| HPDM145 |
Strategy and Systems Leadership |
15 |
| HPDM154Z |
Future Health: Beyond Data |
15 |
| HPDM155Z |
Future Health: Reimagining Systems |
15 |
| HPDM148/a> |
Independent Research |
60 |
|
Code |
Module Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| HPDM092 |
Fundamentals of Research Design |
15 |
| HPDM093 |
Systematic Reviews for Policy and Practice |
15 |
| HPDM054Z |
Statistics as applied to health |
15 |
| HPDM148 |
Independent Research |
60 |
| HPDM055 |
Qualitative methods and process evaluations |
15 |
| HPDM058 |
Implementation Science |
15 |
| HPDM056Z |
Clinical Trials |
15 |
| HPDM057 |
Health economics |
15 |
| HPDM059 |
Leading Change in Health Services |
15 |
Master of Public Health (MPH)(Online)
|
Code |
Module Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| HPDM118Z |
Structuring and Solving Public Health problems |
15 |
| HPDM119Z |
Analytics and Evidence-Based Public Health |
30 |
| HPDM120Z |
Leadership, Strategy and Change |
30 |
| HPDM121Z |
Epidemiology |
15 |
| HPDM123Z |
Behaviour Change |
15 |
| HPDM125Z |
Integrative Policy and Practice Exercise |
15 |
| HPDM126Z |
Capstone Project |
30 |
| HPDM122Z |
Planetary Health |
15 |
| HPDM141Z |
Pandemics: Drivers, Preparedness and Response |
15 |
| HPDM124Z |
Principles of Health Protection |
15 |
| HPDM127Z |
Principles of Primary Care |
15 |
| HPDM136Z |
Evidence to Decision in Health Technology Assessment, Health Policy and Resource Allocation |
15 |
Master of Public Health (MPH)(Online)
| Code | Module Title | Credits | Term(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| HPDM118 | Structuring and Solving Public Health problems | 15 | 1,2,3 |
| HPDM119 | Analytics and Evidence-Based Public Health | 30 | 1,2,3 |
| HPDM120 | Leadership, Strategy and Change | 30 | 1,2,3 |
| HPDM121 | Epidemiology | 15 | 1,2,3 |
| HPDM123 | Behaviour Change | 15 | 1,2,3 |
| HPDM125 | Integrative Policy and Practice Exercise | 15 | 1,2,3 |
| HPDM126 | Capstone Project | 30 | 1,2,3 |
| HPDM122 | Planetary Health | 15 | 1,2,3 |
| HPDM141 | Pandemics: Drivers, Preparedness and Response | 15 | 1,2,3 |
| HPDM124 | Principles of Health Protection | 15 | 1,2,3 |
| HPDM127 | Principles of Primary Care | 15 | 1,2,3 |
| HPDM136 | Evidence to Decision in Health Technology Assessment, Health Policy and Resource Allocation | 15 | 1,2,3 |
| HPDM027 | Contemporary Environment and Human Health | 15 | 1,2,3 |
| HPDM033 | Global Public Health and Environmental Change | 15 | 1,2,3 |
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