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.
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.
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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
| Date |
Duration |
Venue |
| 11 Jan 2021 - 25 Apr 2021 |
150 Hours |
SIT@Dover, 10 Dover Drive, Singapore 138683 |
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
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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:
- HSC6001 Independent Professional Practice
- HSC6002 Evidence Based Practice and Ethics
- HSC6003 Health and Ageing
- HSC6004 Principles and Practice of Elder Person Rehabilitation
- HSC6005 Falls, Mobility and Elder Persons
- HSC6006 Motor Control and Learning
- HSC6007 Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
- HSC6008 Neurological Rehabilitation
- HSC6009 Pain – Learn, Unlearn, Relearn
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:
- HSC6001 Independent Professional Practice
- HSC6002 Evidence Based Practice and Ethics
- HSC6003 Health and Ageing
- HSC6004 Principles and Practice of Elder Person Rehabilitation
- HSC6005 Falls, Mobility and Elder Persons
- HSC6006 Motor Control and Learning
- HSC6007 Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
- HSC6008 Neurological Rehabilitation
- HSC6009 Pain – Learn, Unlearn, Relearn
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.
