Course content
Please note, all course information including entry requirements relates to the 2022/23 academic year.
This exciting, contemporary programme focuses on postgraduate academic study underpinning a higher level of professional practice in healthcare. It is designed to provide the health and social care practitioner a stimulating and rigorous analysis of health care practice. It will have an interdisciplinary and interprofessional focus and aim to prepare practitioners to lead and manage change in a global health care environment.
The course combines conceptual, theoretical and practical learning approaches to the study of health and social care practice and will provide the opportunity for you to develop skills and expertise to an advanced level. The MSc is grounded in professional practice and will offer the opportunity to create and interpret new knowledge through research and advanced scholarship.
There are a number of routes available:
- MSc Health Sciences
- MSc Health Sciences (Clinical Education)
- MSc Health Sciences (Leadership and Management)
- MSc Health Sciences (Neonatal Practice)
- MSc Health Sciences (Heart Failure Practice)
- MSc Health Sciences (Critical Care Practice)
- MSc Health Sciences (Ethics and Law)
- MSc Health Sciences (Ethics and Palliative Care)
- MSc Health Sciences (Safeguarding)
- MSc Health Sciences (Child Care Law)
Broad educational aims of the programme are to:
- Demonstrate the capacity for critical enquiry, analysis and application of knowledge in your practice, and to support innovations in health and social care.
- Demonstrate effective self-management and leadership skills to effect change in health and social care.
- Engage within a learning programme consolidating and extending theoretical knowledge and practice skills relevant to your own discipline, facilitating academic and professional development to enhance the delivery of quality care.
- Promote and enhance your skills in critical reflection, evaluation, professional decision making and leadership to inform best practice.
- Promote effective collaboration, interdisciplinary and interagency working practices.
- Engage with work-based learning to support the development and implementation of evidence-based practice; establish and lead projects in your practice setting.
Information for international students
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ENTRY REQUIREMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
This programme is available to international students working in the UK. As an international student, you should have appropriate professional registration and meet the following NMC IELTS criteria.