Health Sciences Foundation Year - Foundation

This module is designed to support you in your transition to studying in a Higher Education environment at Birmingham City University. Through a range of class-based group and individual activities, discussions, debates, personal reflection and wider reading and research, you will have opportunities to consider academic conventions, which include: effective use of literature; sourcing and reviewing information; various forms of academic writing; developing reflective capacity. You will also receive guidance on study skills and strategies, which will enhance previously acquired skills.

This module is designed to encourage you to gain the skills of a professional practitioner, it will give you an understanding and awareness of the challenges faced when ensuring professional practice. You will develop an understanding of the importance of the requirement of registration for your chosen field along with maintaining your personal health and wellbeing to enable continued effective professional practice.

By engaging in this module, you will explore and develop your own personal values, understand the importance and impact of professional values, along with consideration of own personal values, the patient, carer or healthcare professional.

This module is designed to support you in your transition to studying in a Higher Education environment at Birmingham City University, allowing you the opportunity to negotiate learning of a bespoke subject. Under the guidance of tutors, you will be able to direct your learning and identify relevant learning opportunities that you feel enable you to learning more about a specific field of study.

The subject area within this module is student-led, with guidance and facilitation from designated academic and practice support. You will identify an area of study that you would like to review and evaluate, and which relates to your foundation year pathway and indicate programme.

Reflection and reflective practice are integral to understanding and the development of self. It is therefore fundamental to the development of emotional intelligence. This module will empower you with the foundational skills of becoming a reflective practitioner.

This is achieved through the exploration of the theoretical underpinnings of reflection and reflective practice and combined with practical application of that theory into supporting the foundational development of reflective practice skills.

Skills developed on this module will be those that underpin individual reflection; those that will enable you to engage in guided reflective dialogue with another person.

This module is shared between students undertaking the Health Sciences pathway and the Sport and Physical Activity pathway within the foundation year programme.

An understanding of the central role of the biological molecules, cellular aspects and anatomy of the human body which will provide a solid foundation leading into the module in semester two Introduction of Human Physiology and Disease.

Development of this knowledge will be underpinned with practical activities to boost your confidence, with a range of learning activities supported by directed and self-directed learning to include lectures, workshops and in the form of quizzes via the Moodle site to enhance your knowledge.

Each section will look at the anatomy of different body systems that could be included in any of the health sciences pathways to help you contextualise the topic in a discipline-specific approach.

This module is shared between students undertaking the Health Sciences pathway and the Sport and Physical Activity pathway within the Foundation Year programme.

Building on from introduction to Human Anatomy, you will develop an understanding of the principles of Human Physiology and Disease exploring and developing knowledge of the mechanisms of systems of the human body and associated disease.

Topics covered will be underpinned by practical activities, pre and post session activities will also help towards your development of key transferrable skills. Embedded within the module there are discipline specific sessions which will provide key skills for the pathway chosen and support you in understanding different pathways and knowledge.

Upon completion of your Foundation year, if your chosen course is regulated by a professional body such as the Health and Care Professional Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council or the National College for Teaching and Leadership, you will be required to successfully complete the University’s selection process for the specific courses which will include an interview in order to proceed onto year one of the full degree course.

Entry onto year one of the degree course may also be subject to a satisfactory background check (DBS) and an Occupational Health Assessment – if required by your chosen course.