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Quick Facts

Medium Of Instructions	Mode Of Learning	Mode Of Delivery
English	Self Study	Video and Text Based

Course Overview

Dysphagia: Swallowing Difficulties and Medicines certification is a 6 weeks course that is certified by FutureLearn and is made by the University of East Anglia. This online course will mainly attract the likes of nurses, carers, and people associated with the medical field looking after dysphagia.

Dysphagia: Swallowing Difficulties and Medicines certification syllabus offers the development of the understanding of what is dysphagia, oral formulations of medications needed for these people, the correct dosage of the medicines prescribed for these people, the licenses & patients rights of these medicines, adherence to dysphagia, the relationship between ageing and dysphagia, and finally what difficulties do children face while swallowing when having dysphagia.

Dysphagia: Swallowing Difficulties and Medicines training offer the opportunity to establish a network with the faculty, and fellow students with the discussions, features of social networking, graphs. This network will also allow knowledge sharing between the professional industry expert, and the participants.

The Highlights

Complete online course
The timespan of the course is 6 weeks
Learn at one's own speed
2 hours study every week
Certification upon completion

Programme Offerings

100% online course
Progress Page
Weekly study
4 Hours Course
5 Weeks Time
Certification Of Completion

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees Informations	Certificate Availability	Certificate Providing Authority
INR 2763	yes	Futurelearn

Dysphagia: Swallowing Difficulties and Medicines certification fees are basically free of cost, but no certificate is offered. For candidates to get the certificate, and lifelong access to this course they will have to select anyone from the unlimited or upgrade versions. The upgrade version costs Rs. 2,634, and the unlimited one costs Rs. 750/month. The unlimited one has other benefits like access to other FutureLearn short courses, and a year to complete learning these short courses along with a printable certificate.

Becoming a Student Assistant: Teaching and Mentoring Fee Structure

Description	Amount in INR
Limited Access	Free
Subscribe & Save	Rs. 6,500 for one year
Buy this course(One off Payment)	Rs. 2,763.36

Eligibility Criteria

Educational Qualification

Candidates who have any degree of education can enroll for the Dysphagia: Swallowing Difficulties and Medicines certification by FutureLearn.
Medical professionals like nurses or carers can start learning this course.

Work Experience

No actual work experience related to the field is required.

Certification Qualifying Details

For the candidates to receive the FutureLearn achievement certificate, they have to finish all the modules of this course.

What you will learn

Knowledge of epidemiology

The course completion will enable the students to do the following:

They can have ideas regarding the swallowing process, and the several processes of problems with swallowing.
The candidates can identify the types of formulations in medicines, and how much should be prescribed to the patients.
The learners can also differentiate the needs of the children, and older people in terms of their medication needs.

Who it is for

The course mainly focuses on people who are nurses, carers, paramedic professionals or someone associated with the medical field. Other than these people, the course can also excite someone with a special interest in swallowing difficulties and providing medicines pertaining to this problem.

Admission Details

The admission proceeding is as follows:

Step1: The learners have to start by visiting the course website: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/dysphagia

Step 2: Then in the second step, find the Register button, and click that.

Step 3: Next, a registration form opens which has to be filled in with certain information.

Step 4: Once the registration is done, the candidates can either choose the free option or pay an amount for the upgrade or unlimited version.

Step 5: At the last step the learners are admitted to this online course.

Application Details

The only requirement is completing a registration form with some personal details like name, email address, age, and a password. Also, this form can be filled in with details of the candidate’s own personal Gmail, or Facebook.