PU5923: EXTENDED WORK-BASED PLACEMENT IN APPLIED HEALTH SCIENCES (2022-2023)

Last modified: 31 Jul 2023 11:19

Course Overview

This work-based placement elective offers a professional placement with a civic, government, industrial, public, research or voluntary health and/or development sector organisation. You will undertake a ten-week placement with your host organisation, either within the organisation, remotely from Aberdeen, or using a combination of both. Placements are subject to availability and are offered on a best match basis.

Course Details

Study Type	Postgraduate	Level	5
Term	Summer School	Credit Points	30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus	Aberdeen	Sustained Study	No
Co-ordinators	Sorry, we don't have a record of any course coordinators.

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

PU5548 Work-Based Placement in Applied Health Sciences (Studied)

Are there a limited number of places available?

Course Description

The aims of this course are to:

Enhance student experience
Provide students with an authentic learning opportunity
Enhance student employability
Enable students to acquire professional knowledge and understanding of the daily work, strategic priorities, objectives and functions of a health and/or development sector organisation
Facilitate student application of academic skills in a work environment
Provide students with opportunities to strategically develop a range of transferable skills, as well as our Graduate Attributes (www.abdn.ac.uk/graduateattributes/)

This is a project-based course, the content and structure of which is largely student-directed. Students will contribute work activities for your host organisation (20 hours per week over ten weeks = 200 hours) and teaching and learning for this course will also involve a combination of host organisation and University-facilitated structured education (12 hours through six compulsory two-hour University personal reflection and professional development training sessions, plus work-related training and meetings with your placement host and course staff, with the remaining hours devoted to self-study and preparation for assessments (totalling 88 hours).

A placement allocations process will take place during the January – April sub session (over academic weeks 26-40). It may involve meetings with the course staff, discussions with placement hosts (potentially including filling out surveys, submitting expressions of interest; CV sharing; informal interviews (where required) and appointment confirmation) ahead of the course start date.

Some placements will be group-based, but each student will be assigned individual roles and assessments will be completed individually.

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Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers

Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

There are no assessments for this course.

Formative Assessment