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MSc Advancing Practice in Occupational Therapy

  • DeadlineStudy Details:

    Full-time: 1 year; Part-time: 3 – 7 years

Course Description

This course will allow qualified occupational therapists to develop their knowledge and can enable a change in career direction. It is available full or part-time and offers great modules choice.

This course is suitable for occupational therapists who wish to develop knowledge of the evidence-base in practice and to develop their critical thinking, clinical reasoning and understanding of research further. It is suitable for occupational therapists from a wide range of settings and will support students to change career direction to advanced practitioner, education, research or management.

Entry Requirements

Normally an honours degree or equivalent in occupational therapy

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Fees

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Student Destinations

This course will enable occupational therapists to change career direction to advanced practitioner, education, research or management.

Module Details

To gain an MSc, you will need 180 credits. You will study:

  • Research Methods (30 credits);
  • Dissertation (60 credits) and
  • 90 credits, of which 60 must be core/ specialist occupational therapy modules from the following:

-Developing Professional Practice Through Work-Based Learning (15/30/45 credits)

-Specialist Practice Through Independent Study (15/30 credits)

-Critically Engaging with Occupation 1 (15 credits)

-Critically Engaging with Occupation 2 (15 credits)

-Working Together in the Management of Chronic Pain ( 30 credits)

-Rights-based Practice for AHPs Working with Dementia, their Families and Carers (15 credits).

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