Postgraduate Diploma - Respiratory Medicine

This taught programme provides students with an overview of common conditions in respiratory medicine, their diagnosis and management, and the balance of public health, community and secondary care input to the overall service delivery in the speciality. It is taught using a mixture of lectures, tutorials, hands on practical sessions and workplace based elements. It will provide speciality training for budding respiratory specialists in primary or secondary care, either medical or allied healthcare professional.

Students who wish to study this programme at the Postgraduate Diploma level will need to complete additional modules of the programme but will not need to complete a dissertation, which is only available to those studying for the Masters.

The specific aims of the programme are to:

1. Provide an in-depth understanding of the common conditions and concepts relevant to community based respiratory medicine including:

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease • Asthma • Cough • Sleep apnoea

2. Equip students with a comprehensive understanding and practical knowledge of acute respiratory problems, and complex lung conditions managed in a secondary care setting including:

• TB and other respiratory infections • Non-invasive ventilation • Interstitial lung disease • Lung cancer • Cystic fibrosis

3. Provide students with the knowledge and practical skills to plan and deliver efficient and successful clinical services through case based learning and supervised clinical protocol design.