
INTRODUCING PROLONGED DISORDERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Materials available til April 30th (or a little longer if special arrangements made with your organisation).
- Individuals: use the ‘buy now’ button above & set up your student account (The ‘username’ you choose will display in learner chat) Note: If your organisation has given you a coupon code this is how you use that.
- Organisations buying 20+ places, if you wish to be invoiced instead of staff making individual purchases then email: KitzingerJ@cardiff.ac.uk
- Students on placement – scroll down for how to apply for a free place
Course details
Start date: 18th February 2022 (Full course materials released by 7am that Friday)
Delivery: entirely online
Course design: All our courses have interactive elements (eg polls & quizzes) & are multi-media (including film clips from our interviews with frontline staff).
Interactivity: Each time we run a scheduled course there is a cohort of CPD students learning alongside one another who interact via the discussion board, exchange ideas about best practice and pose questions of each other and of the tutor.
Duration: Students are encouraged to complete the course within 2 weeks of release to maximise the benefits of being part of a student cohort all doing the course around the same time.
Study time: minimum of 3 hours study time (or much more with optional activities)
Time management: Learners engage with the materials at their own pace and at a time that suits them (and have access to the materials for 4 weeks from the course start date).
Lead tutor/course author: Professor Jenny Kitzinger & Dr Julie Latchem-Hastings, Cardiff University
Online seminar opportunity: We hope to organise an online discussion seminar alongside the scheduled course – but this will depend on when the tutors have time. You will be emailed if this is on offer after the course has started.
Assessment: Self-assessment quizzes & reflection. Certification of participation on completion
Cost: £10
Centres taking on courses: we can make special arrangements for centre managers/teams who wish to enrol 30+ staff. This can include being invoiced instead of staff paying individually. We can also organise bespoke courses for centres with the possibility of an in-person seminar discussion – contact us for details, costings & to discuss requirements.
Students on placement & support workers: With each scheduled run of this course we offer some free enrolments for placement students & support workers. Email your request to Professor Jenny Kitzinger (KitzingerJ@Cardiff.ac.uk). Please provide a 3 or 4 lines about yourself and why you’d like to join the course, and where you are (are going) on placement.
Example of course contents
- Introduction: Course Welcome; Connecting Learners
- Core Facts: Mechanisms of injury, What is PDoC, Test your knowledge
- Language and Labels: “Vegetative”, “Minimally Conscious”, “Permanent”
- Daily Observations: Interpreting behaviours, Predicting futures, Images of PDoC, Describing patients
- Broader Context: History of PDoC; Comparison between Countries; Demographics
- Diagnosis and Guidelines: Diagnosis and Prognosis; Sociology of Diagnosis
- Reflections and Feedback: Poem for reflection; Professional Guidelines; Summary & CPD certificate.
Note: You’ll need a computer & internet access to do the course – with a microphone to listen to audio & the usual software for playing youtube clips etc. If organising this course from a workplace please check the technology and that there is no firewall block before booking.
Note: The fees for our course are currently set simply to cover the software licences, website hosting and education technologist input. All receipts/invoices should go to our educational technologist: Liz Fahy at GeckoSurfing. Please let us know if you are a centre wishing to buy 30+ places on the course and an invoice can be sent if you prefer this way of paying.
You can preview the first unit of the course here: https://cdoctraining.org.uk/module-1/course-welcome-4/