Online healthcare CPD short courses

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds immense promise for revolutionizing medical imaging, a crucial component of routine clinical care across various specialties. The foundation for AI's success in medical imaging lies in the presence of large, well-structured datasets, a history of digital adoption, and the need for innovation amid persistent workload and funding pressures. By harnessing AI's capabilities, efficiency can be enhanced, liberating radiologists from mundane tasks and allowing them to focus on higher-value aspects of their roles.

The widespread adoption of AI in radiology is already underway, showcasing its potential to outperform experienced radiologists in certain clinical tasks. However, integrating AI into medical imaging poses unique challenges, including the need to address biases and establish clear explanations for findings. Our AI & Medical Imaging course aims to demystify AI, illustrating its potential to elevate patient care in medical imaging. By taking this course, you will explore the opportunities AI presents while learning how to best mitigate associated risks in a clinical setting. Prepare to embrace the future of medical imaging with confidence and competence.

• Next intake: 19 February 2024
• Duration: 5 weeks
• Delivery: Online
• Awards: 16 CPD points and RCSI Completion Certificate
• Price: €975

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The Internet of Health Things represents a significant advancement in the healthcare sector, with numerous specialities leveraging its capabilities for improved clinical services. The IoHT integrates a network of interconnected devices that collect, transmit, and store healthcare data, offering a foundation for transformative healthcare practices. This technological integration is especially crucial in the collection and analysis of medical data, set to revolutionise healthcare delivery and patient care.

RCSI Online’s short continuing professional development (CPD) course provides an in-depth exploration of the IoHT's role in healthcare, melding technology and medicine to forge innovative solutions for a more efficient, effective healthcare system. In this course, you'll gain comprehensive insights into the architecture and diverse applications of IoHT in healthcare, learning how to effectively harness this technology to collect, analyse, and utilise vast amounts of healthcare data.

Join the Dots in Healthcare: Discover how IoHT is revolutionising patient care, data analysis, and clinical practices in healthcare.

• Next intake: 19 February 2024
• Duration: 5 weeks
• Delivery: Online
• Awards: 16 CPD points and RCSI Completion Certificate
• Price: €975

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Healthcare generates vast amounts of data with each healthcare encounter, and this data has transformed into valuable information, knowledge, and wisdom. However, health data is exceptionally personal and valuable, necessitating proper protection and understanding of concepts like data privacy, confidentiality, data sovereignty, data sharing, and cybersecurity. While cybersecurity is essential for safeguarding data from malicious attacks, privacy focuses on the appropriate use and governance of personal information. Both privacy and cybersecurity are vital components that must be integrated into projects and plans for data protection.

Understanding the elements of data protection, including cybersecurity, is crucial for all health professionals to actively contribute to data protection. The 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack on the NHS stands as a widely known example highlighting the significance of data protection and cybersecurity, with subsequent breaches showing the potential impact across jurisdictions. This course aims to familiarise you with the concepts, theories, and strategies driving modern approaches to safeguarding health data, empowering you to play a pivotal role in preserving the integrity and security of healthcare information.

• Next intake: May 2024
• Duration: 5 weeks
• Delivery: Online
• Awards: 16 CPD points and RCSI Completion Certificate
• Price: €975

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In healthcare, every change has a financial implication.

When proposing or planning reform, in addition to an awareness of the clinical dimensions and impact, healthcare professionals also need a critical understanding of how to make a financial case for change or for a new service.

For healthcare professionals who want to bring about change, lead a project or look to a future management role, this course will provide you with an understanding of the role of finance in healthcare, and equip you with the tools, language and confidence you need to make a business case.

• Next intake: 2024 TBC
• Duration: 5 weeks
• Delivery: Online
• Awards: 16 CPD points and RCSI Completion Certificate
• Price: €975

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Technology has driven change in healthcare since the dawn of humanity but, in recent years, digital advancements are proving to be transformative for both patients and healthcare professions. In this course you will learn about the specific technologies that are changing healthcare.

The course will provide you with an overview of the technologies used in the relatively recent past, how they have influenced currently-used technologies, and what impact future advancements may have in the sector.

• Next intake: 2024 TBC
• Duration: 5 weeks
• Awards: 16 CPD points and RCSI Completion Certificate
• Price: €975

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Contemporary healthcare systems generate large amounts of data. In an ideal scenario, these systems would be closely interlinked and the data within them easily shared to optimise care for patients. However, the complexities of both healthcare and data, as well as the scale of these systems and the large number of different individuals involved – healthcare professionals and patients – means this is far from simple.

This course will examine some of the key technologies relevant to digital health today. It will guide you towards an understanding of these technologies and how they are used on an operational level. The course will explore how health data generated by the consumer through smartphones and other technologies, coupled with data generated through patient interactions with healthcare practitioners, might be harnessed to enhance patient care and deliver operational efficiency.

• Next intake: 2024 (TBC)
• Duration: 5 weeks
• Awards: 16 CPD points and RCSI Completion Certificate
• Price: €975

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Health tracker apps on our phones, patient files being shared between different clinicians, multidisciplinary healthcare teams collaborating within and across institutions: these are just some of the ways in which the digital revolution is impacting healthcare.

At the same time, the rise of person-centred healthcare means that, instead of treating one aspect of an illness or injury, health professionals increasingly look at the whole person. It’s not enough, for instance, to just treat a patient’s heart condition in isolation. Instead, the clinician needs to look at their wider circumstances, such as their diet, income levels and housing conditions.

This course will guide you through the wider issues involved in the digital health revolution, and how digital tools can be used to deliver a person-centred healthcare model. It will examine the drivers of this digital disruption and the forces resisting change, before inviting you to analyse the implications for your organisation, as well as your professional and personal identity.

• Next intake: 2024 (TBC)
• Duration: 5 weeks
• Awards: 16 CPD points and RCSI Completion Certificate
• Price: €975

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No organisation can function effectively without a strategy.

In the past, strategy was more likely to be developed by senior management, and companies and organisations tended to closely guard their strategic plan. Today, however, strategic planning tends to involve widespread consultation, and to be published for anyone to see.

As part of this course you will discover how strategy is now used as a communication and organisational tool, rather than one that necessarily provides an organisation with a competitive advantage. You will consider how you can successfully input into an organisation’s strategy, and how to ensure that a strategic plan does not gather dust on a shelf but instead leads to real progress in your healthcare environment.

• Next intake: 2024 (TBC)
• Duration: 5 weeks
• Awards: 16 CPD points and RCSI Completion Certificate
• Price: €975

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The future of health is personalised.

As science reveals more about the 'omics' in human biology – mainly genomics but also proteomics, epigenomics, microbiomics and more – it also uncovers how this differs from one individual to the next, allowing medicine to be tailor-made for individuals. Such developments mean not only that we can treat a patient’s specific illness, but also use data to better predict how a person will respond to treatment and, ultimately, focus on health interventions that may prevent a person from becoming sick in the first place.

This course will enable you to develop an understanding of this field, and consider how personalised health could potentially deepen social inequalities if access is not equal. You will also consider how personalised health raises data privacy concerns.

• Next intake: 2024 (TBC)
• Duration: 5 weeks
• Awards: 16 CPD points and RCSI Completion Certificate
• Price: €975

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