The Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education is a 60 Credit programme made up of three 20 credit modules detailed in the diagram to the left.
If you are unable to complete the full 60 credits for award of the Postgraduate Certificate, you can take any achieved credits to another institution to continue the programme at a later date. You are can claim the credits for any successfully passed modules by requesting a transcript from - https://students.sheffield.ac.uk/record-of-results/transcript. You would then need to approach another programme to see if they will accept these credits on their course, which would hopefully allow you to not have to take similar modules on the new programme.
The exam board sits in October each year. At this meeting, grades are confirmed (all grades are provisional up to this point) and passes and deferments decided upon. Participants who have submitted and passed all assignments are eligible, subject to exam board confirmation, for the award of the Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education.
After submission of all work, the following process will be followed:
Sep - All submitted and marked work to be prepared and sent to the External Examiner
Oct - Exam Board convened
Oct - Letters to students confirming that they are to be recommended for award
Nov - Award Recommendations to be sent to Taught Programmes
Dec - REQUEST YOUR CERTIFICATE - Please use the google form to request your certificate, please do not do this before December.
Dr Paul Crampton
University of York
Director of the Health Professions Education Unit
Programme Director for the PG Cert, PG Dip, and MSc Health Professions Education
Lecturer in Medical Education
Medical Education
University of York
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The external examiner receives a sample of the graded work each summer and ensures through examination of that sample that the work is of an appropriate standard, that grading decisions have been fair and consistent across the sample and that the feedback given to students has supported the learning process. We may additionally seek the advice of the external examiner during the presentation of the programme, where it is appropriate. The external examiner can make recommendations about the grading of individual work and require the programme team to make changes to the programme if the standards achieved on the programme are not deemed to be appropriate.