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MSc Advanced Physiotherapy: Musculoskeletal

  • DeadlineStudy Details: 1 year - 5 years

Masters Degree Description

Play your part in advancing musculoskeletal physiotherapy practice, by equipping yourself with advanced clinical, academic and research skills. This Master’s degree places an emphasis on clinical reasoning and evidence-informed assessment, and you will get first-hand insight into evidence-based and new emerging treatments to help patients with musculoskeletal disorders.

Entry Requirements

Normally a minimum of an upper second-class UK Bachelor's degree or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in Physiotherapy; or an approved Diploma in Physiotherapy together with evidence of appropriate clinical and/or teaching experience and a commitment to continuing professional development. We expect students to have had at least two years post-qualification clinical experience. UK state-registration (with The Health Care and Professions Council) and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy membership is needed to undertake the Clinical Education (clinical placements) Module.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

UCL offers a range of financial awards aimed at assisting both prospective and current students with their studies.

Student Destinations

By the end of your Master’s degree, you’ll be in a strong position to progress into academia, research, management or senior clinical practice. Several students have used the MSc as a springboard to gain funding to undertake PhDs at a range of high-ranking London universities. Others have secured senior positions, such as team leads and clinical specialist posts, at major London hospitals. Graduates of this course have gone onto work with the NHS and hospitals all over the world.* * Graduate Outcomes survey carried out by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), looking at the destinations of UK and EU graduates in the cohorts 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23.

Module Details

Compulsory modules

  • Physiotherapy Research and Dissemination
  • Applied Statistics for Health Research I
  • Clinical Education in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy
  • Upper Quadrant: Advanced Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Assessment and Management
  • Lower Quadrant: Advanced Physiotherapy Musculoskeletal Management
  • Research Project
  • Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy Skills
  • Health Management and Clinical Exercise for Pulmonary Disease
  • Physical Activity and Clinical Exercise in Cardiovascular Disease
  • Paediatric Neuro-Physiotherapy
  • Paediatric Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy
  • Clinical Exercise and Physical Activity
  • Paediatric Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy
  • Respiration Through Life, Health and Disease
  • The Young Athlete: Injury Prevention and Management
  • The Heart Through Life, Health and Disease
  • Neurophysiotherapy: Evidence for Rehabilitation and Practice
  • Motor Control in Life, Health and Disease
  • Health and Family Well-Being in Early Childhood
  • Infant Development
  • Leadership and Professional Development
  • Rehabilitation and Management for People Living with Long-term Neurological Conditions
  • Work Based Learning in Health
  • Higher Functions of the Brain
  • Motoneurons, Neuromuscular Junctions and Associated Disease

Optional modules

  • Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy Skills
  • Health Management and Clinical Exercise for Pulmonary Disease
  • Physical Activity and Clinical Exercise in Cardiovascular Disease
  • Paediatric Neuro-Physiotherapy
  • Paediatric Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy
  • Clinical Exercise and Physical Activity
  • Paediatric Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy
  • Respiration Through Life, Health and Disease
  • The Young Athlete: Injury Prevention and Management
  • The Heart Through Life, Health and Disease
  • Neurophysiotherapy: Evidence for Rehabilitation and Practice
  • Motor Control in Life, Health and Disease
  • Health and Family Well-Being in Early Childhood
  • Infant Development
  • Leadership and Professional Development
  • Rehabilitation and Management for People Living with Long-term Neurological Conditions
  • Work Based Learning in Health
  • Higher Functions of the Brain
  • Motoneurons, Neuromuscular Junctions and Associated Disease

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