Sport and Exercise Medicine

Entry requirements

• A good first degree in a subject such as Sport and Exercise Science, Physiotherapy, Sports Therapy, Paramedic Science, or other allied health sciences.

OR

• A pass on a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree (BMBS, MBBS, or equivalent). Applicants with a 2:2 in relevant degrees and experience may also be considered but on a case-by-case basis.

Months of entry

September

Course content

From athletes to people of all abilities, you’ll motivate, diagnose and rehabilitate your patients to make a real impact to their daily lives.

Designed for doctors to sport science specialists, you’ll explore the relationship between exercise and health. With practical experiences in our world-leading University Arena, and specialist medical clinics, you’ll have opportunities at Worcester that you can’t get anywhere else.

This course is aligned with the British Association of Sports and Exercise Medicine (BASEM) standards, which will assist you in applying for membership.

Overview

Our MSc in Sport and Exercise Medicine is based on the philosophy of total care for athletes and promoting physical activity in the community. Whether you’ve studied medicine, physiotherapy, sport and exercise science, or have a clinical background, this course will equip you with the specialist training to start a career in sports medicine.

Learn on the field by providing pitch-side care for athletes at sporting events at our 2,000 seat University Arena, or through working with one of our affiliated franchise teams and local clubs. From working with athletes to manage sporting injuries to maximising the health of your patients through exercise, you’ll learn the latest practice across the areas of sport and exercise science.

You’ll have unique opportunities for hands-on experience with access to our specialist facilities including our BASES-accredited human performance labs. You can measure joint movement patterns on our isokinetic dynamometer or an athlete’s skeletal movement with clinical gait analysis.

Based on our health and wellbeing campus, you’ll work alongside, and collaborate with, other healthcare professionals. Study advanced anatomy in our dedicated anatomy suite, which uses high-fidelity models alongside state-of-the-art digital simulations of life-size human bodies.

Teaching

Teaching is face-to-face, supported by online materials and independent study. You are taught through a combination of lectures, interactive practicals, seminars, and laboratory settings. The lectures are for teaching key concepts that relate to the interactive practicals, and seminars and laboratory sessions enable you to apply the principles and understand them fully. Laboratory settings are used to develop industry-recognised skills which are supported by interactive practicals and seminars with the use of case-based scenarios, blended learning, online materials and Problem Based Learning (PBL) that you may be required to present back to peers.

Careers

As a Sport and Exercise Medicine MSc graduate, you'll be prepared for a wide range of jobs, whether enhancing the performance of elite athletes, promoting healthy living in the wider community, or contributing to public health initiatives.

Once you graduate, you could start a career as a:

• Public health advisor
• Corporate wellness manager
• Clinical sport and exercise medicine practitioner within national governing bodies
• Sport and exercise medicine specialist
• Rehabilitation and injury prevention specialist
• Clinical and exercise physiologist

Information for international students

If English is not your first language you will need to show that you have language skills at IELTS at 6.5 (not less than 6.0 in any section) or equivalent.