CD-ROM databases and library.
Email and internet computer access.
Access to physical resources for producing and presenting discussion. (e.g. Powerpoint equipment, flip charts, OHP).

5000 word paper presented as if for publication based on seminar presentation. (75%)

Portfolio collection of papers, reflections on debates, and module diary notes demonstrating how your final presented arguments on the nature of professional knowledge was grounded. (25%)

This module sets out to challenge the student' 'perspectives on the notion of professionalism and the existence of professional knowledge as a bounded entity. It raises the notion of how they see themselves as belonging to a profession and the boundaries they perceive there to be to in their scope of practice. In an environment where challenges to exclusivity of professional knowledge or service are made to limit perceptions of professional power, this will module will ask them to conceptualise their claims their own professional knowledge base. There will be debate on the Governments pressure to ensure evidence based healthcare through its notion of clinical governance and on how the mechanisms for managing change impinge on professions and the manner in which those within them interact. The module will explore how different professions have different relationships and claims to professional knowledge. It will explore how Inter and intraprofessional segments interact with dominant groups and how this is likely shape the choice of research, influenced by the students' relationships and preconceived knowledge of the existing relationships with other professionals at their workplace.

Largely, independent directed learning.

The general mode of delivery is therefore seminar and workshop activities using role-play, video, published papers and practical work/case studies etc., as illustrations. A feature of the delivery will be the use of discussions based on tasks you will have been asked to undertake in preparation for the session in which, you will be encouraged to reflect on your previous and current work. Formal lectures will only be used where deemed strictly necessary to ensure particular points of knowledge. These will be a stimulant to work and debate elsewhere in the delivery.

In accordance with the D level status of this module texts will be contemporary articles from a range of sources and these will differ with each intake. Please note that you should not remain in your own professional area when searching for literature. Insight can be gained using literature taken from outside of the healthcare arena and applied to your own circumstance.

Malin, N. (ed.). (2000) Professionalism, Boundaries and the Workplace.
London, Routledge. ISBN 0-415-19263-3

Turner, B. S. (1995) Medical Power and Social Knowledge, London, Sage Publications. ISBN 0-8039-8088-4