Teaching and assessment for Clinical Embryology & In Vitro Fertilisation (distance learning) PGCert

You will be taught asynchronously online through a combination of:

• lectures
• tutorials
• workshops
• discussion groups
• journal clubs
• laboratory sessions
• case presentations
• self-directed study

A variety of approaches to teaching will be used to ensure optimal engagement with learning. This will include the use of a telerobot to allow you to follow patients through their ART treatment and follow an embryologist working in an ACU lab. This will be supplemented with a series of videos to allow you to observe key processes performed in ACU theatres and lab.

There will be weekly discussion boards and optional drop-in sessions with tutors. In year 3, research supervisors will organise meetings with you, at a mutually convenient time at least once per month.

You will be allocated an academic mentor from the staff teaching on this course, who you will meet at the start of the course, and regularly through-out the course.

You will be assessed through a mix of:

• short essay examinations
• scientific essay
• statistics exam
• lab reports / books
• business plan
• clinical case presentation
• thesis
• poster presentation

Formative activities will be included throughout each module to give you feedback on your progress. The summative assessments for each module will focus on your abilities to apply the concepts and principles introduced in the module to your day-to-day or future work at your own workplace. Most assignments will be submitted asynchronously online, except for case and poster presentations which will be presented synchronously online. Dates and times will be provided at the start of each academic year with two options to suit different time zones.

To exit with a Postgraduate Certificate you are required to pass 60 credits (three modules), with a Postgraduate Diploma an additional 60 credits (a further three modules, 120 credits total) and for a Masters an additional 60 credits (Research Project module, 180 credits total).