...about the Specialist Certificate in Transfusion Science Practice
The overall cost of the programme is £891. The price includes:
a copy of the text book 'Introduction to Transfusion Science Practice' 6th Edition
access to online learning facilities and support
registration fee for the examination and one potential re-sit.
No. The 45 level 7 credits gained through this programme are part of the UK Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS) therefore this may allow you to move accumulated credits between different further education providers. It is up to the prospective student to confirm with the intended University they wish to study with if they will consider them suitable to count towards one of their existing qualifications. It is, however,up to that provider whether or not to accept them.
Not necessarily. Anyone who is registered with the HCPC or AMLS has the equivalent BSc knowledge.
You would be entitled to one re-sit only within the cost of the programme. If you were unsuccessful on that occasion, you would have to re-apply for the programme at full cost.
Is there just a final examination assessment or will I be required to complete a portfolio?
The assessment is based on the final examination and compulsory participation in various online discussion topics throughout the programme. A portfolio of evidence is not required to be submitted. However, students are encouraged to manage their CPD evidence, in line with HCPC fitness to practice requirements, with the help of the BBTS CPD Tool.
There are 40 multiple choice questions each with 5 possible responses. One, two, three, four or five responses will be correct dependent on the question asked. For all questions at least one of the 5 responses will be correct. Therefore there are 200 possible responses you could select.
The paper is balanced to ensure here are more incorrect selections available than correct selections. For example 108 selections may be incorrect and 92 correct. It is expected that each candidate will select mostly correct answers with only a few incorrect answers.The candidate’s correct and incorrect selections are totalled independently and the percentage of incorrect answers removed from the percentage of correct answers. The table below gives some worked examples:
As you can see although candidates 1 and 2 selected the same number of correct responses, candidate 1 got only 3 answers incorrect. Candidate 2, however, selected a large number of incorrect responses (indicating poor knowledge or guessing) and therefore this affected their final score significantly.
Candidate 3 selected less correct answers than candidate 2 but passed the paper as they only selected 3 incorrect answers overall. This indicates they were more careful in their answer selection process and did not ‘guess’ many answers. Candidate 4 is a very poor fail as they failed to select many correct responses in addition to selecting a high number of incorrect responses.
No. You can log on and participate at your convenience as long as you participate within the 6 week time frame for each activity. All you have to do is read others’ comments and post your own comment in the Student Forum.
The programme and activities are given at set times over the year to facilitate the learner in linking new and existing knowledge to their work practices. Tasks do not have to be completed when directed, but it is a highly recommended feature of the new programme; the course is designed to enable the learner to gain the best opportunities and experiences for learning over the programme. Workload is released on a monthly basis so there will not be any opportunity to complete tasks ahead of the scheduled time. We would therefore recommend that a decision to delay the work-based activities is made carefully by taking into account your previous/ existing level of transfusion science experience and practice, and your ability to catch-up should this be necessary.
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