The Clinically Enhanced Prescribing in Acute and Emergency Medicine module will enhance knowledge, skills and clinical confidence to prepare independent prescribers to manage patients within the clinical categories of acute medicine and emergency medicine.

The aims of the programme are to enable you to:

• Understand, apply and assess professional knowledge and skills commensurate with being an independent prescriber within cute medicine and emergency medicine.
• Utilise clinical and professional collaboration with patients and other health care workers.

 When achieved, you will be able to:

• Identify and evaluate presenting complaints of patients.
• Respond to varied clinical situations, multiple pathologies or complex medical needs, guided by consultation and diagnostic methods designed to establish reliable identification of clinical presentations and therapeutic options.

Module content includes:

Patient assessment and prescribing in the clinical areas of respiratory, cardiac, pancreatic, trauma, abdominal, and ophthalmology. In addition to the identification of urgent cases and delivery of immediate life support.

This is a clinical course involving health assessment of patients. You must be prepared to physically examine patients, models and fellow students.