Course Overview
Domain
Health and Social Sciences
Format
Modular Certification Course
Duration
3+ months
Fee Subsidy
Up to 90% SF Funding
Updated: 14 July 2023
Due to recent changes in the Modular Certification Pathway in Elder Health and Rehabilitation, we have temporarily paused the acceptance of new candidate applications for this module. This decision has been made to ensure that we can provide the best possible experience for our current learners and make necessary adjustments to improve the programme.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to our team here.
In this interprofessional module, you will examine personal and cultural understandings of pain and the changes in understanding that have taken place in the last 60 years.
This includes changes led by pain neuroscience that have taken the understanding from a biomedical tissue-based phenomenon to an understanding on neural pain mechanisms, to more biopsychosocial viewpoints. You will have the opportunity to reflect on their attitudes and beliefs and the influences and contexts that shaped them. The module content reflects the section from the Interprofessional Pain Curriculum developed by the International Association for the Study of Pain, Multidimensional Nature of Pain.
This module also includes a 2-day workshop: Stress, Pain and Recovery where "The Pain and Movement Reasoning Model", co-authored by the presenter, will be presented as a biopsychosocial framework and tool to support clinical reasoning. The design of the workshop is deliberately not discipline-specific but over the two days, you will be given the opportunity to plan how new knowledge and skills can be adopted into your individual clinical approach.
Who Should Attend
- Any healthcare professionals
Prerequisites
- Related and relevant health-science-related qualifications and working experience
Documents and information you would need to complete this application:
Please upload documents under Online Applications - Supporting Documents section.
- Employment support letter (Includes applicant's area of work)*
- Recognised BSc degree in any of the health sciences registrable with the local regulatory bodies*
- Transcript of highest relevant qualification*
- Professional certification
- English proficiency test, IELTS 7.0 or equivalent^
- Answers to the following questions:
- Your reasons for pursuing the module (100 - 150 words)
- Why did you select SIT over other academic institutions? (100 - 150 words)
- What do you hope to achieve at the completion of the module? (100 - 150 words)
* Mandatory Documents
^ If applicant's basic professional qualification was not obtained from Singapore, Australia, Canada (except Quebec), New Zealand, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States of America)
What You Will Learn
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Compose a brief personal narrative focusing on the development of pain attitudes and beliefs including personal, societal, and cultural influences
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Identify and critically report research findings that influence personal understandings of pain
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Propose, using detailed examples, how contemporary understanding of pain could change a past example of clinical practice
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Construct a resource that will inform colleagues/peers about the multidimensional nature of pain
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Deliver and evaluate a simple interprofessional education intervention in a workplace setting
Teaching Team
Lester Jones
Senior Lecturer, Health and Social Sciences, Singapore Institute of Technology
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Schedule
| Week | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 |
Introduction to Module |
| Week 2 |
Cultural interpretations and representations of pain, including in The Arts |
| Week 3 | Historical theories of pain |
| Week 4 |
The burden of pain on community |
| Week 5 | Theories of pain |
| Week 6 | Definitions of pain and pain-related terms |
| Week 7 | Recess week |
| Week 8 - 10 | Neurobiological mechanisms of pain (including a 2-day Workshop: Stress, Pain and Recovery) |
| Week 11 | Classification systems of pain |
| Week 12 | Ethical issues in pain treatment |
| Week 13 | Revision |
Certificate and Assessment
A Certificate of Participation will be issued to participants who
- Attend at least 75% of the module
- Undertake non-credit bearing assessment during the module
A Certificate of Attainment will be issued to participants who
- Attend at least 75% of the module, and
- Candidates who pass the Assessment criteria of the respective module will earn 6 credits, which are stackable for Postgraduate Certificate and Postgraduate Diploma qualifications
- Candidates who pass 4 modules (totalling 24 credits) with a CGPA of 2.5 or more will be awarded the Postgraduate Certificate in Elder Health and Rehabilitation by Singapore Institute of Technology
- Candidates who pass 8 modules (totalling 48 credits) with a CGPA of 2.5 or more will be awarded the Postgraduate Diploma in Elder Health and Rehabilitation by Singapore Institute of Technology
Fee Structure
The full fee for this course is S$5,232.00.
| Category | After SF Funding |
|---|---|
| Singapore Citizen (Below 40) | S$1,569.60 |
| Singapore Citizen (40 & Above) | S$609.60 |
| Singapore PR / LTVP+ Holder | S$1,569.60 |
| Non-Singapore Citizen | S$5,232.00 (No Funding) |
Note: All fees above include GST. GST applies to individuals and Singapore-registered companies.
Course Runs
Learning Pathway
Earn a Postgraduate Certificate/Diploma
The Postgraduate Qualifications in Elder Health and Rehabilitation are designed with a clinical focus to deepen and broaden the skills of allied health professionals, enabling them to apply scientific learning and knowledge to the clinical applications of healthcare for elder persons.
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