It is an educational programme open to all healthcare staff working across the Humber region. Participants can be registered or unregistered health professionals who will learn together in a cohort over a twelve month period. The programme focuses on enhancing generalist skills – the areas of practice which span all specialties and professions such as providing person-centred care, working sustainably in complex systems, reducing health inequalities and managing patients with multiple interacting comorbidities. It is a professional development programme, and as such, managers who support services to become more integrated, patient focused, sustainable and efficient will also find they can learn and contribute, and bring this learning back to their workplaces.

This is a trailblazer site as part of a national programme to enhance generalist skills.

Most people will need to commit about 4 hours a week to cover the programme, although this learning can be taken as deeply or as broadly as you wish. There are seven modules, each lasting seven weeks. Six are core modules, and the seventh is an applied module with a choice of topics. There are fixed points at the beginning and end of each module to allow the cohort to learn together, with flexible, guided self-learning in between.

Definitely. There is no level of prior academic learning required to participate. Most of the learning is self-directed so you can tailor your learning to your own interests and styles. There are options for learning via practical skills, projects, visits and shadowing, as well as more traditional learning such as lectures, workshops, reading, e-learning, videos and podcasts. There is no formal assessment but participants will be expected to reflect on their learning throughout the course.