Operating Department Practice

About this programme

The philosophy behind the course aims to produce practitioners whom the academic and practice staff would choose to look after themselves or their loved ones. This course has been designed to equip students with the skills required to deliver the most effective care and up-to-date practice as possible, enabling students to qualify and apply to register as an Operating Department Practitioner with the HCPC. If you have interest in the human body as a living, breathing machine then consider Operating Department Practice. Our students learn physiology in action through the interventions that happen in both the anaesthetic and surgical phases of the perioperative journey. We’re accredited by the College of Operating Department Practitioners (CODP) and are approved by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). Students will be exposed to a variety of clinical practice settings across surgery, anaesthetic, post-anaesthetic and critical care. Learn to safely practice skills away from patients so they feel prepared when it comes to the real thing. This course is approved by Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and accredited by the College of Operating Department Practitioners (CODP). In Year One, students will be familiarised to the operating theatre environment with an initial one-week orientation placement. Students will then experience several placements in surgery (undertaking scrub and circulating roles), anaesthesia and post-anaesthetic care across a number of common surgical specialties (e.g., general surgery, orthopaedics, gynaecology).