This short two-weekend CPD course for multi-professional healthcare workers will commence with consideration of a key question “what is the difference between evaluation and research” by way of an introduction to evaluative approaches in health services and how evaluation can take into account the complexity of health services.

Dates and time:

Friday 15 – Saturday 16 March 2019, 9.00-17.00 and
Friday 17 – Saturday 18 May 2019, 9.00-17.00.

Convenor – Professor Patricia Wilson

The course will take into consideration the contexts and potential areas of conflict when conducting evaluation in health care settings through a session on the politics of evaluation, this will be followed by topics on different approaches to evaluation within implementation science and putting evaluation to practice.

On successful completion of the course, you will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of the differences between different evaluative approaches
• Competently choose between the different evaluation approaches in an informed way
• Apply an understanding of a variety of approaches to evaluate professionally relevant – interventions and to ascertain impact of professionally based interventions.

Attendance and Venue:

You will be required to attend the course at our Medway campus on the above dates. Venue: University of Kent Medway Building, Chatham Maritime, Medway, ME4 4AG.   Certificates of attendance will be issued to those who successfully complete the course.

The course is delivered by the University of Kent’s Centre for Professional Practice (CPP). CPP offers part-time, flexible work-related Postgraduate and Undergraduate programmes. Our flexible, part-time MA/MSc in Professional Practice programme and short courses have been specifically designed to meet the needs of working professionals who wish develop their expertise within their current workplace.

The fee for this short CPD course is £450. Find out more on the CPP Facebook 

To book a place follow the CPP link