PgDip learning outcomes

Educational aims of the course

  • Provide professionally relevant teaching and learning of the knowledge and skills necessary to be at the forefront of efforts to engineer better care
  • Develop healthcare innovation experts with the necessary expertise, and originality of application, to pursue and expand their roles in the rapidly evolving environment of healthcare systems
  • Promote a comprehensive understanding of the practical and ethical considerations relevant to healthcare improvement and biomedical engineering
  • Provide work-relevant learning around the current problems, best-practice, challenges and potential solutions in the delivery of effective health and care
  • Create a professional network of like-minded individuals as leaders in the field of healthcare systems and biomedical engineering
  • Provide students with systems leadership skills and the knowledge to use technology to deliver value in healthcare, research, and commercial arenas
  • Equip graduates with the language and mindset to work in an interdisciplinary manner across the interface between medicine, engineering and commercial settings
  • Expose students to the industrial context and perspective within the technology area, providing opportunities throughout the study for involvement with industrial partners through workshops, seminars and the projects.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

  • Knowledge of the broad landscape of healthcare systems and biomedical engineering; and understanding of the practical and ethical considerations relevant to healthcare improvement and biomedical engineering. (Learning outcome K1)
  • Knowledge of engineering techniques that can be applied to address challenges in clinical settings, including diagnostics and medical devices. (K2)
  • Understanding the role of each key element in healthcare improvement projects. (K2)
  • Understanding and knowledge of patient and public health from the aspects of physical, environment, social, legal and historical elements. (K4)
  • Understanding the value of mixed healthcare technology in design implementation for clinical purposes. (K5)
  • Understanding of the intricacy of medical device development for both medical settings and everyday life; and understanding of the up-to-date technical, legal and ethical infrastructure that guides research and commercial development. (K6)

Intellectual Skills

  • Ability to identify the future trends in healthcare provision, biomedical interventions and use of healthcare data; and communicate to appropriate groups to support the implementation of change. (Learning outcome S1)
  • Expertise to apply engineering knowledge and methodology in the complex multi-professional systems. (S2)
  • Skills to use the relevant tools to execute systems approaches in healthcare improvement projects. (S3)
  • Ability to conduct appropriate epidemiological study analyses and formulate/test hypotheses to investigate putative biological incidents and outbreaks. (S4)
  • Ability to identify the space to improve diagnosis, treatment, management and policies in clinical practice with a strong advanced technical competence. (S5)
  • Key entrepreneurship mindset and skills to complete a healthcare product business life cycle. (S6)

Transferable skills

  • Professionalism to work in a diverse environment, work value, ethics and sociability, including embracing differences in professional background, culture, language, geography.
  • Not constrained to familiar technology or hard skills, but also the flexibility to adapt to changes.
  • Ability to develop and apply research critically to improve health for individuals, populations and healthcare system.
  • Capability to disseminate and translate knowledge for patient and public benefit.

Employability skills

  • Be able to take the responsibility at the frontiers of organisations with a sharp sense of new opportunities and awareness of the coming trends.
  • Knowledge to improve organisation’s performance, competitiveness and advancement.
  • Skills to facilitate effective and timely decision making within an organisation in healthcare settings.
  • Leadership proficiency to create and close the business loop of design innovations across a diverse range of healthcare contexts.