First choice for health
Key features
- Study with the only university to offer an intercalated degree in emergency care in the UK.
- Explore opportunities to set up placements within your locality helping you with the cost of living and development of important relationships in settings where you may like to work in the future.
- Experience working in genuinely challenging clinical environments; real-life experiences mean meaningful education.
- Get to grips with working and studying with a multi-professional team and all the insight that brings.
- Prepare to lead teams in the future with a specific module on management and leadership.
- Practice skills that will be essential as you progress to becoming a consultant.
- Deepen your research and audit knowledge, helping you to decide (with your emergency department mentor) what area of emergency care you will develop an audit in.
- Choose from a range of optional modules including paediatrics and mental health.
Course details
-
Course overview
-
This programme has a modular design and a flexible ‘blended learning’ approach to delivery. Successful completion of the third or fourth year of your primary medical degree normally means you are eligible to accredit prior learning up to 60 credits via Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning – please see the
AP(E)L section of our website for further information on this process. You will therefore typically require just one of the optional modules (from the three available below) in addition to core modules UEC607 and UEC608 to achieve the BSc (Hons) in Urgent and Emergency Care. Please note: As a medical student intercalating, it is likely your prior learning will be accredited towards the ‘Understanding evidence to inform clinical decision making’ module HEAD360 (see APEL above).Core modules
UEC607
Urgent, Emergency and Critical Care: Leadership and InnovationThis module will enhance the students' confidence and competence to lead and manage quality improvement and innovation in urgent, emergency and critical care.
UEC608
Evidencing Professional Development in Urgent, Emergency and Critical Care via (e)-PortfolioThis module will enable the student to develop their professional practice in the provision of urgent, emergency and critical care. Evidence supporting the students' development will be collated in an electronic portfolio (e-portfolio).
HEAD360IC
Understanding Evidence to Inform Clinical Decision MakingThe module is designed to extend students' knowledge around evidence-informed decision making. This will be achieved through students identifying and evaluating a body of research-based evidence relevant to clinical practice.
Optional modules
UEC604
The Child or Young Person Requiring Urgent or Emergency CareThis module will facilitate the development of practitioners knowledge and skills in the recognition and immediate management of children/young people requiring urgent or emergency care for illness/injury in a range of settings by increasing their ability to apply current research/evidence to practice and deliver holistic care to sick children and their families.
UEC610
Developing Expertise in Urgent & Emergency CareThis module is designed to enable healthcare professionals to critically examine and develop in an area of professional clinical practice, in Urgent and Emergency Care. Taught workshops will guide the student, building on their pre-existing body of knowledge to further develop their skills in health assessment, clinical examination and clinical reasoning.
UEC611
Mental Health Assessment in Urgent, Emergency and Acute CareThis module aims to increase knowledge and skills of practitioners working in urgent, emergency and acute care settings and who work with individuals experiencing mental health issues. It explores the principles and process of mental health assessment and the practice of determining appropriate intervention alongside prioritisation of client need based on the current guidance.
Every undergraduate taught course has a detailed programme specification document describing the course aims, the course structure, the teaching and learning methods, the learning outcomes and the rules of assessment.
The following programme specification represents the latest course structure and may be subject to change:
Entry requirements
-
English language requirements . - We welcome applicants with international qualifications. To view other accepted qualifications please refer to our
tariff glossary .
Fees, costs and funding
Student | 2024-2025 | 2025-2026 |
---|---|---|
Home | £9,250 | £9,250 |
International | £18,100 | £18,650 |
Part time (Home) | N/A | N/A |
Telephone: +44 1752 586951
Email: pduadmissions@plymouth.ac.uk
Additional costs
How to apply
Help & enquiries
- Admission enquiries
- pduadmissions@plymouth.ac.uk
- +44 1752 586951
- PlymUniApply
Placement information
Programme modules
Optional modules
You are required to take one of these optional modules
Are you a registered healthcare professional working in a critical care setting? You can study this programme on a full or part-time basis.
Student insight
"You won't have a better intercalated year!"
I intercalated to get an opportunity to gain hands on experience in emergency medicine and build my CV. Plymouth was a great location and setting and I had a fantastic year full of opportunities to gain both clinical experience and make some great friends from the course. You won’t have a better intercalated year! The highlights for me were to get involved in quality improvement and become part of a great ED team. I've gained plenty of experience, built better clinical knowledge and had great opportunities along the way. A years worth of invaluable experience. There isn’t a working day where you don’t use the skills gained.
Urgent and Emergency Care staff
-
Mr Ruari Cassidy
Lecturer in Clinical Intercalation
Programme Lead
-
Dr Blair Graham
Lecturer in Urgent & Emergency Care
Admissions Lead
Why urgent and emergency care?
Emergency medicine is an exciting speciality to be involved with - we are growing in size and influence, with an ongoing revolution of what emergency departments are responsible for. The benefits to students are mainly 'personal' and 'career'.