Location:

Colchester, United Kingdom

Program Type:

Full Degree

Degree Level:

Master

Specialty:

Medicine & Premed Programs

Program Overview

Program Description:

Our MSc Physiotherapy develops your knowledge, skills and attributes to enable you to work with clients in a health care profession concerned with maximising the potential of human function and movement. Physiotherapy involves working with people to promote their own health and wellbeing and restore movement and function, where possible, when someone has been affected, by injury, illness or by developmental or other disability. Successful completion leads to eligibility to apply for registration with the Health Professions Council (HPC) and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) as a physiotherapist. HPC registration is required to work as a physiotherapist in the UK. Our programme aims reflect the general learning outcomes and the requirements for professional practice. These are to produce graduates who are: 1. fit for practice; 2. eligible to apply for registration with the Health Professions Council and membership of the professional body, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy; 3. reasoning, reflective, sensitive practitioners with the requisite knowledge, skills and professional attributes to provide an effective service to all population groups; 4. equipped with the skills and flexibility of thinking necessary to function effectively in the complex, ever-changing environment of the health service setting; 5. committed to undertaking continuing professional development; and 6. able to work effectively, both individually and in groups, across a variety of settings and within multi-professional teams. We also educate pre-registration nurses, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, clinical psychologists and oral hygienists – to name a few – as well as providing on-going professional education for qualified health and social care staff. This means that you not only study alongside other health professionals learning with them, but you also get the opportunity to learn expert knowledge from them! All of our Masters-level pre-registration programmes are offered as accelerated programmes. This means you have the advantage of interprofessional learning (IPL), encouraging professionals to learn with and from each other – an understanding that helps to ensure our students have the expertise to respond adequately and effectively to the complexity of their service user needs, and ensures that care is safe, seamless and of a high standard. Our School of Health and Human Sciences offers a multidisciplinary environment with an excellent reputation for research and teaching. We submitted with our Department of Sociology in the last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE, December 2008) and were awarded joint first in the UK. Within our School, our educational provision meets professional regulatory requirements and achieves high standards. We do so by having staff that are multi-professional, including clinically-qualified lecturers, sociologists and social policy and management specialists, so they have clinical and academic credibility. A unique feature of our school is that many of our staff work with local National Health Service (NHS) Trusts and other local agencies, which enhances our grasp of the contemporary links between academic research, the major issues of the day and practice. We specialise in applied, multidisciplinary research that addresses issues of national and international concern to health policy and practice and related fields. We have research interest groups in ‘Developing Professional Practice’ and ‘Applied Health Research’, and host the NIHR Research Design Service for the East of England.

Additional Program Information

Accreditation:

Postgraduate study qualification from the University of Essex.

Financial Aid:

No

Requirements:

Relevant honours degree, minimum lower second class; satisfactory CRB and occupational health checks (arranged by University of Essex); and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

International Requirements:

IELTS score of 7.0 or above, with no element under 6.5.