Caring for Children and Young People with a Cardiac Condition
2025-26 Year of entry
Delivered by Great Ormond Street Hospital Learning Academy (GLA), this 15-credit module is an interesting and exciting opportunity for cardiac practitioners to further develop their knowledge, and competence in relation to children’s and young people’s cardiac care.
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Course Overview
This module enables learners to contribute to their development and improvement of specialist clinical knowledge regarding cardiac treatment interventions, ongoing management and ethical considerations. The module has been designed specifically to allow each practitioner to define their learning relative to their own area of practice and expertise within children’s cardiac care, for example, the ICU or Outpatients.
This module can be taken as standalone Continuing Professional Development (CPD), or as part of a Master’s of Science (MSc), Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip), Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) or Graduate Certificate (GradCert) in Paediatrics & Child Healthcare Practice. See our MSc Paediatrics & Child Healthcare Practice page for more information about these programmes. If you wish to discuss how this module could fit into one of our programmes, please contact academic.programmes@gosh.nhs.uk.
Candidates considering a programme will need to attend a pre-entry meeting with the programme leader to review the requirements and expectations of the programme. To set up a programme planning meeting, please contact the Academic Programmes Team at the GOSH Learning Academy: academic.programmes@gosh.nhs.uk.
Teaching
Active learning will allow students to learn via collaboration, cooperation, and peer-based learning. Activities may include interactive lectures, clinical skills demonstration and supervised practice, small group activities, case-based discussions, workshops, practice simulations and tutorials.
Synchronous and asynchronous learning and teaching activities are delivered via a combination of study days and digital strategies at local sites or online using the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
Clinical skills development and simulation are delivered in fully equipped, state of the art skills labs using a range of low and high-fidelity learning modalities.
Assessment
The formative assessment will be the completion of peer presentations.
The summative assessment will require learners to demonstrate achievement of the learning outcomes through completing a viva voce regarding paediatric cardiac care.
Teaching dates
| Type | Date | Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching Day 1 | 08/09/2025 | Face-to-Face |
| Teaching Day 2 | 15/09/2025 | Face-to-Face |
| Teaching Day 3 | 22/09/2025 | Face-to-Face |
| Teaching Day 4 | 29/09/2025 | Face-to-Face |
| Teaching Day 5 | 06/10/2025 | Face-to-Face |
| Teaching Day 6 | 13/10/2025 | Face-to-Face |
| Assessment Day 1 | 10/11/2025 | Face-to-Face |
| Assessment Day 2 | 11/11/2025 | Face-to-Face |
Teaching will take place over a whole day. Face-to-Face teaching will take place either on or around the Great Ormond Street Hospital campus or at the Middlesex University West Stand at StoneX stadium. Exact locations for teaching days will be advised closer to the start date.
Learners are only expected to attend one of the available assessment dates.
Entry requirements
To undertake this module, you must hold a current healthcare-specific professional registration and currently be working with paediatric cardiac patients.
How to apply
Applications will close two weeks before the module start date. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that they have arranged the necessary study leave to attend the module.
Candidates whose fees are being paid by their organisation will need to obtain a letter of sponsorship from their organisation and upload this as part of the application. You will not be able to save your application form once you begin, so please have the letter of sponsorship ready. You may wish to use this template: GOSH SPONSOR LETTER PDF.
If you have any questions about the module, please contact academic.programmes@gosh.nhs.uk.
Fees and funding
The fees below refer to the 2025/26 academic year unless otherwise stated.
Part-time learners: £67 per credit*
*Course fees are subject to annual inflation so the total costs for part time study are shown here as a guide.
Learners who withdraw on or after the start date of the module will be liable for the full tuition fees.
If you have any questions about the module, please contact academic.programmes@gosh.nhs.uk.