The MSc Advanced Emergency care course is delivered and taught completely online. Students are not required to attend ScHARR for teaching and are not expected to enter the UK to do the course. Overseas students taking the course would not need to get a Student Study visa to enter the UK as they do not attend the University in person.
The course is studied part-time for period of 2 to 4 years, depending on how many modules the student studies each semester. It has been designed to be as flexible as possible, allowing students to successfully combine their studies with work and family life. Students start the course in late September each year at the start of Semester One.
The degree awarded upon completion of the course is the same MSc Advanced Emergency Care degree that has been awarded for the previous, physical attendance version of the course. The degree certificate does not mention that the course was delivered and studied online; online learning degrees at the University of Sheffield are delivered to the same internationally recognised high standards as our attendance degrees so we do not make any distinction between attendance degrees and online degrees.
You will be required to identify a clinical supervisor in your hospital for some of the clinical modules. This is to facilitate verification of any clinical skills and cases you may need to submit as part of your log book. We will tell you more about this once the course has started; in general this will need to be someone qualified and working as a specialist in your own country.
Finally, the course is aimed at practicing Emergency Medicine clinicians. We would expect you to be working in the appropriate environment during the course (either in Emergency Medicine, Urgent Care or Pre-hospital Care).
The core staff for this course are listed below:
In addition to these core staff members, the course draws on the expertise of other experts within the School. See the course structure pages for details of some of the other staff members involved.