Clinical Geriatrics Cardiff University

Overview

This innovative programme aims to support clinicians and other health care professionals, who have a special interest in managing and leading care in older adults, to deliver novel, transformational approaches, improving the quality of care for the older adult from theoretical and patient-based care to population-based care. 

Join us and we’ll equip you with the skills and knowledge to support health teams to create system wide change, with vast improvements in patient outcomes. Our curriculum provides an up-to-date educational experience that fulfils the needs of healthcare services in supporting the development of outstanding care for the future within the field of geriatrics. Our graduates are a global network delivering responsive transformational changes within their practice, promoting continued improvement. You’ll learn alongside professionals from a wide range of healthcare disciplines, aligned to new and emerging areas of practice within the field of geriatrics.

We’ll help you to identify where the gaps lie in the current state of care that is delivered from a systems perspective, and we will support you in reaching the correct diagnosis and management, addressing unmet clinical needs.

By the time you graduate, you will have experienced:

• A fully comprehensive programme of education for healthcare professionals in the field of geriatrics, aligned to key competencies within medical and health care development pathways
• A stimulating environment for research, teaching and learning about geriatrics, developing you into a critical thinker able to synthesise evidence to reflect innovatively and lead on the prevention, reduction of impact, assessment and management of conditions experienced as we age
• A framework of life-long, adult learning principles to transform health care responding to the needs of older adults and their families, developing you into a role model for your peers
• Development of leadership and evaluation skills in the delivery of care
• A collaborative and enriching culture of training by a network of experienced clinical teachers
• Development of excellent oral presentation skills
• Advanced competencies in peer review and scientific publishing

Our aim is to encourage critical thinking and to improve the understanding of geriatrics. We will not only develop your factual knowledge, aligned to the latest research and developments within the field of geriatrics in clinical practice, but you will also have the opportunity to learn about strategies aimed at considering how best to deal with future advances and challenges in therapy and management. Apply today to become part of a programme that continues Cardiff University ’s reputation as a leader in the multi-professional education of Geriatric medicine, both within Wales and worldwide.