Health and education are synonymous with high quality healthcare service. As such all members of staff are trained and educated to a high level. The collaborative encourages education and development, and works with academic institutions to ensure that education is relevant and applied in context.
The information below is the current academic routes available. However, as part of the modernisation of the healthcare science workforce new methods of training and education will appear along with new education providers. Those education providers will offer the new degree as a full-time mode of study. The current, part-time, method of training will be supported throughout the transition between the existing mode and the new mode.
The information below is the current academic routes available. However, as part of the modernisation of the healthcare science workforce new methods of training and education will appear along with new education providers. Those education providers will offer the new degree as a full-
Undergraduate Education
FdSc Clinical Physiology (Associate Practitioner)
Currently under development is the new Foundation Degree to be be offered by Solent University. It will be structured around health and science with multiple pathways. One pathway will be a cardiology option. Those successfully recruited students will embark upon a two year programme and gain knowledge and skills required to be an associate practitioner within cardiac physiology. This programme will be validated in November 2011.
Practitioner Training Programme (PTP)
BSc (Hons) Clinical Physiology (Cardiology)
A four year vocational degree programme culminating with state registration. This is the fundamental academic requirement for this career. As a vocational degree, students acquire clinical skills in the workplace and receive the under pinning knowledge from an accredited education provider. The completion of a clinical skills logbook and two professional examinations will provide you with a pathway into post graduate opportunities.
Note: This method of entry into the career is coming to an end and the new programme will begin to appear nationally from 2011.
BSc (Hons) Healthcare Science (Cardiology)
The new programme to replace the existing part-time programme as part of the Modernising Health Science policy (DoH). The new programme if offered in a full-time and part-time route by the Faculty of Health Science, University of Southampton (S27). Those students with the necessary entry qualifications will be able to apply via UCAS, code B120. The new venture will involve students gaining clinical experience on placements within a cardiac physiology department. Click here to find out more.
Note: This method of entry into the career is coming to an end and the new programme will begin to appear nationally from 2011.
BSc (Hons) Healthcare Science (Cardiology)
The new programme to replace the existing part-
Postgraduate Education
Scientist Training Programme (STP)
Scientist Training Programme (STP)
To find out which academic institutions are currently accredited to deliver the Clinical Physiology programme and the mode of delivery, go to the links page and click on the link to the Registration Council for Clinical Physiology (RCCP).
These posts will be advertised nationally and will involve a three year fixed contract
with a physiology department. The first year will include rotations into other health
science areas. The remaining time will be spent gaining clinical exposure to a range
of cardiac investigations. Culminating in a selection between cardiac imaging or
cardiac rhythm management, On graduation these students will become Clinical Scientists.
The
education providers offering this programme for cardiac physiology will be the University
of Newcastle. It is anticipated that other academic institutions will offer the
STP.