Postgraduate study
Continuing professional development (CPD)
The Section of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Glasgow currently offers the following CPD courses, suitable for primary care staff:
- Achieving clinical effectiveness
- Cancer and primary care
- Learning in practice
- Introduction to primary care
- Management of long-term conditions in primary care
- Populations to individuals: statistics, epidemiology and critical appraisal for primary care
- Social justice
- Working with others
All courses are offered on a stand-alone basis for CPD and delivered either as 11 x 2.5-hour sessions, or over four full days. (Click here to access a sample timetable.) These are not didactic lectures but a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops, discussions and case studies. Each course is SCOTCAT accredited with a value of 20 points. Assessment depends on the individual course, but is a 3000-word essay or written assignment. Students who wish to be awarded these points have to complete summative assessment assignments. All students are encouraged to complete the groupwork assignment even if they are not being assessed. Students who are not seeking to be awarded SCOTCAT points may choose to complete the assignments if they so wish.
They are delivered at the Section of General Practice and Primary Care.
The cost of each course undertaken during 2007/2008 was £600 per student. (2008/2009 fees to be confirmed)
How to apply
Further information
To find out more about our courses, or about the application process, please contact:
Christine Fitzpatrick
Postgraduate Secretary
E-mail cf48h@clinmed.gla.ac.uk
Tel 0141 330 8300
Other CPD opportunities
For information about other CPD opportunities in the Division of Community Based Sciences, click here.