Planning Remote Environmental, Health, Community and Disaster Response

Program Overview

Module - Planning Remote Environmental, Health, Community and Disaster Response

Overview

The aim of this module is to develop proficient knowledge, skills and behaviours that foster pre-meditated safe practice in those people who will be expected to deliver operational plans and interventions in austere and potentially hostile environments whilst operating in or deployed on humanitarian, disaster response or development missions with little or no direct support. The principles are also applicable to those leaders and managers responsible for disaster mitigation and response planning in community organisations and health settings at all levels.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• Critically review the literature in relation to generic command, leadership and management (executive, health/medical, community and multi-agency) in benign and high-risk environments.
• Critically review your understanding and application of current health/medical principles alongside recognised models of health and care and generate a rational discourse based on your lessons identified.
• Demonstrate your own operational planning process(es) that is/are coherent with planning methods employed by other agencies across your spectrum of operations and that you support.
• Critically analyse how this module has enhanced your practice by demonstrating changes in effectiveness, efficiency and quality through transformative learning.

What You Will Learn

• Command, leadership and management
• Problem solving techniques
• Developing professional decision advantage and superiority
• Awareness and the application of intelligence/medical intelligence
• Resource management
• Local policy, available doctrine and evidence
• Physical and mental resilience including personal safety and security
• Transformational learning and critical reflection
• Operating in a non-permissive environment
• Care under fire, tactical field care and evacuation
• War gaming

Teaching and Assessment

Formative assessment provides an opportunity for you to receive feedback on work as part of your learning for the module. Formative work does not have marks awarded that contribute to the final module mark.

For this module, a simulated scenario will be developed providing a platform on which learners may test their theories and assumptions as preparation towards their summative assignment/capstone project.

The summative assessment is project work of 4,000 word equivalent which provides the opportunity for you to demonstrate that you have met the learning outcomes for the module.

Entry Requirements

This module is aimed at individuals who will be expected to operate in austere and/or hostile environments whilst engaged in remote environment, expeditionary or disaster environments.

To be eligible to study this module, you must demonstrate the ability to study at this level e.g. successful study at the underpinning level. You must commit to attempting the assessment.

Fees and Funding

Tuition Fees

20 Credit Health Module Pricing

Tuition Fees Policy

Tuition fees are set annually and are subject to review each year. The University may therefore raise tuition fees in the second or subsequent years of a course, in line with inflation and/or the maximum permitted by law or government policy. Students will be notified of any changes as soon as possible.

Key Details

Tuition Fees

20 Credit Health Module Pricing

Minimum Entry Requirements

• Credits: 20
• Recruiting to: UK / RoI / Settled in UK
• Course Location: Online

Institute

Institute of Health

Delivery Style

Online

Course Duration

Part time, 12 weeks, Single Module

Course Start Point

April

Award

Module