Special Projects                                                      

Universities Medical Assessment Partnership (UMAP)

As a result of our dynamic relationship with Manchester University, the Institute hosts and runs UMAP to generate quality-assured, scenario-based questions for the assessment of undergraduate medical students.  We now have a bank of questions used by 16 of the UK’s medical schools.  UMAP will provide assessment material for all 31 of them by the end of 2010. UMAP has been commended as a beacon of excellence in assessment practice by many national and international educational bodies and has been responsible for training over 1000 clinical teachers in the process of item writing and quality assurance.

SAGE AND THYME

An innovative training module developed by specialist cancer nurses at UHSM Academy to help staff deal with distressed patients in hospitals.  Both words are acronyms and make up a two-pronged approach to help staff explore a patient’s fears and emotions, plus the best way to address them.

CHRiSM

This unique partnership between UHSM and Manchester University has been established to research the innovative educational and teaching methods we are pioneering at the Institute.

Major incident Masters

UHSM has teamed up with Manchester Metropolitan University to launch the UK's first-ever set of qualifications for healthcare professionals working in the field of major incident response.