The National Rural Conference 2024

The Rural Services Network (RSN) is thrilled to announce the National Rural Conference 2024, taking place from 16th to 19th September. This virtual event, accessible via Zoom, is the premier gathering for senior officers, members, policymakers, and rural service professionals.
Further information and booking details can be found here

26.07.2024

New Courses Announced the University of Central Lancashire National Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine

Promoting Rural Best practice UCLan

Announcing two new CPD courses designed with the Remote and Rural practitioner in mind – STAT Rural and STAT Remote & Austere that will commence delivery early in 2025.

Each STAT (Stabilisation and Treatment Awaiting Transfer) course focuses on the different timescales relevant to practice in Rural, Remote and Austere settings.

STAT Rural will help you to develop your knowledge and practical skills to deliver extended management for acutely unwell patients in primary care settings whilst awaiting ambulance transfer.

STAT Remote & Austere takes this learning further to help you to develop your knowledge and practical skills to stabilise and initiate treatment for up to the first 24 hours of care in clinical settings more distant from definitive care.

Each course has been designed with the needs of the busy working clinician in mind. Delivery is through a “blended learning” approach, combining “access on demand” pre-recorded lecture content with guided reading and interaction in the online discussion forum in preparation for a short block of face-to-face seminars on-campus that combines interactive case-based discussions with practical skills training using our extensive sim library.

These new courses sit alongside our established and very successful UMeCC (Urgent Medical Care Course) that is designed to help you to develop your knowledge, clinical reasoning and confidence in the management of Urgent Care presentations.

All courses are validated for postgraduate credit and can be accessed as stand-alone CPD or built up towards a PGCert in Remote & Rural Medicine

To find out more and make your application please email Course Leader Dr Tim Sanders: tsanders2@uclan.ac.uk.

MSc in Remote & Rural Medicine programme

Calling all current and aspiring Remote or Rural practitioners from all disciplines. Whether you are a Doctor, ACP, Paramedic or Nurse Practitioner; working in General Practice, Urgent Care or Emergency Care; newly qualified or experienced, already working in a Rural or Remote setting, or aspiring to break away from your work in the ratrace, our MSc in Remote and Rural Medicine has been developed for you.

Our Remote and Rural generalist curriculum draws on competency frameworks in Remote and Rural Healthcare and Urgent Care from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh’s faculties of Remote, Rural and Humanitarian Healthcare, and Pre-Hospital Emergency Care, the RCGP curriculum and Health Education Scotland/GMC Credential in Rural and Remote Health (Urgent and Unscheduled Care), alongside the years of rural practice experience of Course Leader Dr Tim Sanders and his team.

The programme will help you to:

Explore Remote and Rural Medicine as it applies to your current or planned clinical context in MB4037: Remote and Rural Medicine in Context
Develop your knowledge, skills and confidence in the management of Urgent Care presentations through our well established and very successful Urgent Medical Care Course (UMeCC) in MB4065 – Providing Urgent Medical Care
Diagnose and treat Diseases, Skin Conditions and Zoonoses that are more prevalent in Rural and Remote settings; and
Deliver extended management for acutely unwell patients in Rural settings whilst awaiting ambulance transfer through our new Stabilisation and Treatment Awaiting Transfer (STAT) Rural Course in MB4038 – Delivering Clinical Care in Rural Settings.

With options to extend your skills to:

Deliver extended management for acutely unwell patients for up to the first 24 hours whilst awaiting retrieval through our new Stabilisation and Treatment Awaiting Transfer (STAT) Remote & Austere Course in MB4035 – Delivering Clinical Care in Remote and Austere Settings; or
Explore factors and drivers underlying medical errors and improving outcomes through MB4069 - Human Factors and Managing Safe Dispositions.

Whilst you learn about Remote and Rural Medicine, as a theme throughout the programme you will also develop your skills in academic writing, evidence-based practice and critical appraisal of the literature, preparing you to progress to gain MSc in Remote and Rural Medicine through the completion of MB4099 - Research and Evidence Based Practice Methods and your choice of MB4022 - Dissertation or MB4003 - Professional Project.

This course is designed from the bottom up with the needs of the busy practitioner in mind. Study at your own pace, using a blended learning approach that makes the best use of live and access-on-demand online materials building towards short, interactive campus-based blocks of face-to-face content that bring learners and teaching team together to discuss, explore and make connections.

To apply, head to the Remote & Rural Medicine Postgraduate - PGCert - UCLan course webpages and click on the “Apply for this Course” link, or for more information contact Course Leader Dr Tim Sanders via tsanders2@uclan.ac.uk.