Why choose the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Education
Designed to fit around your work schedule, combining intensive face-to-face study days with supported online and self-directed learning.
On completing this PgCert, progress seamlessly on to our Medical Education MA.
In the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2025, the University of Bedfordshire ranks UK 29th overall; it ranks in the top 10 for skills development and in the top 15 for teaching and learning, assessment and feedback, and sense of community.
About the course
This PgCert is designed for busy medical professionals who wish to build their skills as a clinical educator but need a flexible course that can work around their other commitments. You develop your competence as a clinical educator in both professional practice and educational settings, with a focus on contemporary practice.
To take this course, you must have a relevant qualification in the field and be working in the profession.
The course fees are £3,336 for 25/26 (2 units, 60 credits).
Course accreditation
This course is accredited by the Academy of Medical Educators and aligns with appropriate professional standards.
Facilities and specialist equipment
- 24/7 access to our library services with 194,000 e-books and 192,000 e-journals
- Guided learning materials and e-learning resources on the University’s virtual learning platform
Your student experience
Gain the understanding and techniques you need to support the development of clinical professionals, your teams and the wider organisation.
Each unit combines study days and live online sessions that range over the semester with online learning and supported self-directed study.
Develop a critical, analytical and reflective attitude to medical and healthcare education, and grow as a medical educator and leader.
Learn from a team who bring expertise and experience from higher and professional education contexts.
Study the latest research scholarship and practice, and learn to deal with complexity, contradictions and gaps in the current evidence base.
Benefit from being at a University with a successful track record of supporting those returning to study after long periods in the workplace or after a career break.
Our Bedford campus is a small, thriving academic community where academic staff get to know you well.
Course schedule
The PgCert Medical Education includes 2 units, over two semesters.*
| Date | Location | Time |
| Thursday, 25/9/2025 | Bedford campus | 10:00 - 4:00 |
| Wednesday, 15/10/2025 | Online | 10:00 - 1:00 |
| Thursday, 6/11/2025 | Bedford campus | 10:00 - 4:00 |
| Friday, 28/11/2025 | Online | 10:00 - 1:00 |
| Date | Location | Time |
| Monday, 19/1/2026 | Bedford campus | 10:00 - 4:00 |
| Wednesday, 11/2/2026 | Online | 10:00 - 1:00 |
| Tuesday, 10/3/2026 | Bedford campus | 10:00 - 4:00 |
| Friday, 27/3/2026 | Online | 10:00 - 1:00 |
*All units are core, face to face contact takes place at Bedford campus, exact teaching rooms will be communicated via our online system (BREO) – dates may be subject to minor changes
Get in touch
For more information please contact the course lead Dr Hoda Wassif via email hoda.wassif@beds.ac.uk
Course Leader - Dr Hoda Wassif - Associate Professor in Medical & Dental Education
I am a Principal Lecturer in Medical & Dental Education and Portfolio Lead Pre-Professional & Continuing Health Education Portfolio, part of the School of Nursing and Health Education.
As portfolio lead, I offer academic leadership and support related to a range of courses in Pre-Professional and Continuing Health Education including; Advanced Nursing Practice, Nursing Associates, short courses in health systems as well as Medical & Dental Education.
Studying our Medical Education PgCert course will equip you with the specialist knowledge and skills in clinical education and its practice. Starting with our unit, Clinical Education in Practice, you will explore and develop strategies for teaching individuals and groups of learners across a range of settings. You will adopt an informed and innovative approach to becoming a medical or healthcare educator by examining effective strategies for teaching, supporting learning and assessment.
To enhance your clinical teaching practice, you will critically analyse features of real, simulated and virtual learning environments while promoting best practice and innovation in your work as an educator. Furthermore, you will examine contemporary educational perspectives in the field of higher and professional education in the fields of medicine, dentistry and wider health professions in our Educational Perspectives for the Workplace unit. You will explore approaches to curriculum delivery, which will allow you to re-think your own approaches to teaching, learning and assessment.
The Course aims to offer transformative learning experiences which model best and creative practice in learning teaching and assessment. The team draws upon a wide range of established and innovative approaches to learner support and development. The learning and teaching strategy combines face-to-face contact days with supported on-line learning with students benefiting from the multi-disciplinary learning environment.
Careers
This course enhances your ability to take on more senior educational roles within your current place of employment. The course enables you to adopt a critical stance to your own and others’ educational practice and to propose ways to enhance student and trainee learning experiences.
You may also wish to continue your academic studies. The next steps are the University of Bedfordshire’s Master’s in Medical Education.
