E- Portfolio for Specialist Advanced Surgical Care Practice – HEA4522

Overview

This non-credit bearing, compulsory module, runs longitudinally throughout phase 2 of the MSc Surgical Care Practice (SCP) programme, embedding the spiral approach to learning in the workplace. The TSCP will revisit and build on the knowledge, understanding and achievement of specific capabilities to increasingly complex/challenging situations within their surgical speciality. Comprehensive guidance will be introduced at the start of phase 2 of the programme and during the introduction of the HEA45219 module

Module code:	HEA4522
Level:	7
Module credits:	Non-credit bearing
Cost for new students:	This module can only be studied as part of the MSc Surgical Care Practice. The full cost of the programme for the academic year 2026/27 is £10,701.

If your tuition fee is being paid by a sponsor or you are a sponsor paying a student’s fee, you are required to send a copy of a purchase order to [email protected].

For further guidance please visit: Sponsored students – Edge Hill University

Who is this module for?

This module can only be studied as part of the MSc Surgical Care Practice.

What are the key aims of the module?

The aim of this module is to bridge the theory-to-practice interface which is crucial to evidencing that a TSCP exiting with an MSc Surgical Care Practice has achieved the specialty-specific SCP CiPs defined in phase 2 of the Curriculum Framework for the Surgical Care Practitioner.

What will I study?

The e-portfolio is embedded in the curriculum and is the vehicle for promoting and recording the experiences and formative assessment/feedback on WPL that allows practitioners to develop capabilities that are sustainable for changeability, improvability and responsiveness commensurate with the requirements of a qualified SCP.  The attainment of both competence and capability is important, for this phase of the programme in speciality-specific SCP skills, requiring TSCPs to develop critical insight into their competence and capability in pre/peri, intra and postoperative surgical care and to apply this successfully and to flexibly adapt to unfamiliar professional environments, within a safe governance framework, with clearly defined roles and boundaries.

How will I be assessed?

e-portfolio of clinical skills and capabilities using the PebblePad platform to collect evidence of competence.

This e-portfolio is PASS/FAIL and does not contribute to the overall weighted module mark.

On successful completion you will:

Consistently demonstrate the speciality-specific clinical and technical Capabilities in Practice required of a trainee surgical care practitioner defined in phase 2 of the Curriculum Framework for the Surgical Care Practitioner.

How to apply

This module can only be studied as part of one of the MSc Surgical Care Practice Programme pathways.

For details of how to apply, please visit the apply page.

Pathways

This module can only be studied as part of one of the MSc Surgical Care Practice Programme pathways.