Exam Details - Diploma in Urgent Medical Care
Key Facts
- Where and when is this exam being held? View locations and dates
- Edinburgh
- Diploma in Urgent Medical Care
- 12 September 2024 BOOK NOW
- Diploma in Urgent Medical Care - Part A Written Resit
- 12 September 2024 BOOK NOW RESIT
- Diploma in Urgent Medical Care - Part B Oral Resit
- 13 September 2024 BOOK NOW RESIT
- Edinburgh
- How much does this exam cost? £800 - View more information below
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Diploma in Urgent Medical Care
The Diploma in Urgent Medical Care exam tests the knowledge, skills and behaviours of multi-disciplinary urgent medical care practitioners. It focuses on the timely recognition, diagnosis and management of conditions and situations in the urgent care environment (General Practice, Out of Hours, Walk in Centre). This exam includes urgent care for all patient age groups from neonates to the very elderly.
The level of performance expected is that equal with level 7 within the Skills for Health Career Framework for Health. Level 7 practitioners have a comprehensive, specialised, factual and theoretical knowledge within day-to-day urgent emergency care clinical practice and an awareness of the boundaries of that knowledge.
Exam Benefits
- A unique multi-professional opportunity for Nurses, Paramedics and doctors to evidence their Continuing Professional Development in Urgent Care.
- The examination has an extensive syllabus aimed at practitioners wishing to develop a career in Urgent Care.
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) will grant automatic Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) for candidates who successfully pass the examination for the FPHC’s Diploma in Urgent Medical Care (DUMC). Both current and future holders of the DUMC qualification who subsequently register to undertake the MSc in Urgent Medical Care with UCLan will be deemed to have achieved the equivalent of 120 credits at RQF/CQFW Level 7 (SCQF Level 11). In order to obtain the full MSc qualification, candidates will be required to achieve the remaining 60 credits required by undertaking the appropriate preparation module and a dissertation or professional project.
Exam Format
The Diploma in Urgent Medical Care exam consists of two parts:
- Part A - Written Papers
There are two written papers of 120 minutes duration each having 90 Single Best Answer (SBA) questions.
- Part B – Structured Oral Examination
This is a structured oral examination (SOE) consisting of 12 structured oral testing stations. Each SOE station will be of 15 minutes duration (including 2 minutes reading time). There may also be one or more rest stations or preparation stations.
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Exam Eligibility
Candidates must fulfil the following requirements:
- Medical Practitioners must possess a primary medical qualification that is acceptable to the UK General Medical Council for full registration and have a minimum of two years post CCT. Candidates must have sufficient clinical experience (at the time of application) in the area of Urgent Care. Sufficient clinical experience may range from intensive training or experience over a relatively short time frame or accumulated infrequent experience over several years.
- Nurses must hold registration with the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council and have been engaged in the practice of their profession for not less than two years. Candidates must have sufficient clinical experience (at the time of application) in the area of Urgent Care. Sufficient clinical experience may range from intensive training or experience over a relatively short time frame or accumulated infrequent experience over several years.
- Paramedics must hold registration with the UK Health and Care Professions Council and have been engaged in the practice of their profession for not less than two years. Candidates must have sufficient clinical experience (at time of application) in the area of Urgent Care. Sufficient clinical experience may range from intensive training or experience over a relatively short time frame or accumulated infrequent experience over several years.
- All candidates must also hold, and show evidence of, an in-date certification that they are trained in resuscitation up to the level of immediate life support (ILS) specifically:
- undertake the skills of quality CPR and defibrillation (manual and /or AED) and simple airway manoeuvres
- utilise non-technical skills to facilitate initial leadership and effective team membership
- treat children in respiratory or cardiorespiratory arrest until the arrival of a resuscitation team or more experienced assistance minimum
Certification must be in date at the time of the examination.
Candidates are permitted four attempts in which to pass the examination.
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