Overview

In this interprofessional module, participants will examine personal and cultural understandings of pain and the changes in understanding that have taken place in the last 60 years. This includes changes led by pain neuroscience that have taken the understanding from a biomedical tissue-based phenomenon to an understanding on neural pain mechanisms, to more biopsychosocial viewpoints. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their attitudes and beliefs and the influences and contexts shaped them. The module content reflects the section from the Interprofessional Pain Curriculum developed by the International Association for the Study of Pain, Multidimensional Nature of Pain.

Teaching Team

What You’ll Learn

On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
  • Compose a brief personal narrative focusing on the development of pain attitudes and beliefs including personal, societal and cultural influences
  • Identify and critically report research findings that influence personal understandings of pain
  • Propose, using detailed examples, how contemporary understanding of pain could change a past example of clinical practice
  • Construct a resource that will inform colleagues/peers about the multidimensional nature of pain
  • Deliver and evaluate a simple interprofessional education intervention in a workplace setting

Who Should Attend

Any healthcare professionals.
 

Prerequisites

Related and relevant health-science-related qualifications and working experience.
Documents and information you would need to complete this application:
Please upload documents under Online Applications - Supporting Documents section.

1. Employment support letter (Includes applicant's area of work)* 
2. Registration of practice, AHPC* 
3. Transcript of highest relevant qualification* 
4. Professional certification 
5. English proficiency test, IELTS 7.0 or equivalent ^
6. Answers to the following questions: 
  • Your reasons for pursuing the module (100 - 150 words)
  • Why did you select SIT over other academic institutions? (100 - 150 words)
  • What do you hope to achieve at the completion of the module? (100 - 150 words)
* Mandatory Documents
^ If applicant's basic professional qualification was not obtained from Singapore, Australia, Canada (except Quebec), New Zealand, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States of America)
 

Duration

•      Part-time Postgraduate Certificate in Elder Health and Rehabilitation: 1 - 3 years
•      Part-time Postgraduate Diploma in Elder Health and Rehabilitation: 1 - 5 years
•      Each module is around 12-14 weeks in duration
•      Candidates are expected to set aside time for self-directed learning for the entire duration of the module

 

Certificate and Assessment

A Certificate of Participation will be issued to participants who
•    Attend 75% of the course
•    Undertake non-credit assessment (during course)

A Certificate of Attainment will be issued to participants who
•      Attend 75% of the module, and
•     Participants who pass the Assessment criteria of the respective module will earn 6 credits, which are stackable for Postgraduate Certificate and Postgraduate Diploma qualifications.
•     Candidates who pass 4 modules (totalling 24 credits) with a CGPA of 2.5 or more will be awarded the Postgraduate Certificate in Elder Health and Rehabilitation by Singapore Institute of Technology.
•     Candidates who pass 8 modules (totalling 48 credits) with a CGPA of 2.5 or more will be awarded the Postgraduate Diploma in Elder Health and Rehabilitation by Singapore Institute of Technology.

Schedule

Tutorial Date Time Venue
7 Jan 2020 7:15pm to 9:15pm SIT@NYP, 172 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8,Singapore  567739
28 Jan 2020 7:15pm to 9:15pm SIT@NYP, 172 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8,Singapore  567739
11 Feb 2020 7:15pm to 9:15pm SIT@NYP, 172 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8,Singapore  567739
10 Mar 2020 7:15pm to 9:15pm SIT@NYP, 172 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8,Singapore  567739

Workshop Date Time Venue
28 to 29 Feb 2020 TBC TBC

150 hours of personal endeavour over 15 weeks. This includes supervision time with you assigned Faculty supervisor, personal research and reading, e-learning activities, preparation of documentation for assessment

Fees

$5,136.00

Course Series

Find out more about the Modular Certification Courses - Elder Health and Rehabilitation

Postgraduate Certificate in Elder Health and Rehabilitation
These modules are stackable towards a Postgraduate Certificate in Elder Health and Rehabilitation or can be taken individually as a single module as follows:

Each module carries 6 credits which are stackable for Postgraduate Certificate in Elder Health and Rehabilitation. Candidates who pass any of the 4 modules (inclusive of 3 compulsory modules in bold), totalling 24 credits, with a CGPA of ≥ 2.5 to be completed within a 3 year period will be awarded the Postgraduate Certificate in Elder Health and Rehabilitation by SIT.

 

Postgraduate Diploma in Elder Health and Rehabilitation
These modules are stackable towards a Postgraduate Diploma in Elder Health and Rehabilitation or can be taken individually as a single module as follows:

Each module carries 6 credits which are stackable for Postgraduate Diploma in Elder Health and Rehabilitation. Candidates who pass any of the 8 modules (inclusive of 3 compulsory modules in bold), totalling 48 credits, with a CGPA of ≥ 2.5 to be completed within a 5 year period will be awarded the Postgraduate Diploma in Elder Health and Rehabilitation by SIT.

Key Info

Venue SIT@NYP, 172 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8,Singapore  567739
Time 07:00 PM to 09:30 PM
Date 07 Jan 2020 (Tue) to
19 Apr 2020 (Sun)
Registration is Closed.

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