Postgraduate study

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Postgraduate taught

Advanced Practice in Veterinary Nursing PgCert: Online distance learning

Quality Improvement in Veterinary Practice VETMED5055

Academic Session: 2025-26
School: School of Biodiversity One Health Vet Med
Credits: 20
Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
Typically Offered: Summer
Available to Visiting Students: No
Taught Wholly by Distance Learning: Yes
Collaborative Online International Learning: No
Curriculum For Life: No

Short Description

This course will enable students to learn from industry experts to develop knowledge and skills of the key concepts and tools underlying quality improvement and clinical governance in veterinary practice. Students will develop an awareness of clinical audit, guidelines, patient safety tools, dealing with errors and the effect of practice culture.

Timetable

There will be online sessions with course staff (lectures, tutorials) across 10 weeks from April to June (Online Distance Learning Block 3)

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

Critically discuss and design a clinical audit and its implementation (65%, 2500 words). ILO 2 and 4

Group presentation of a significant event audit and root cause analysis (20%, 15 minute presentation). ILO 2 and 3

Contribute to online reflective discussion and collaborative activities (15%). ILO 1

Course Aims

This course aims to:

■ Provide students with a detailed overview of the concept of quality improvement and clinical governance in veterinary practice.

■ Equip students with a range of quality improvement tools which can be practically implemented and utilised within their own practice.

■ Enable students to explore the barriers to the implementation of quality improvement principles, including the effects of practice culture, and how these could be overcome.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

Critically discussâ€¯clinical governanceâ€¯frameworks and reflect upon experiencesâ€¯of quality improvement.
Evaluate practice using recognised quality improvement tools and propose evidence-based recommendations for improvement.
Critically evaluate workplace culture and propose recommendations for how this could be improved.
Examine barriers to implementation of quality improvement and critically discuss how these could be overcome.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.