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Study Details: MSc 1 year full-time, 5 years flexible
This award-winning online MSc Health Professions Education from UCL Medical School equips healthcare professionals from all backgrounds to deliver the highest standards of education. You can create a bespoke programme to suit your needs. Choose to study full-time for one year or flexibly for up to five years.
Our Health Professions Education programme provides the training you need to develop your career as an educator and leader in your field. The course addresses the contemporary context, educational theory, and practical teaching skills relevant to practitioners of all disciplines involved in education and training of healthcare professionals. Students develop their practice as teachers, educational supervisors, mentors and leaders, and learn to conduct research in health professions education.
This online programme is truly flexible so that students can fit study around busy work and lifestyle commitments. It is delivered using a blend of real-time and asynchronous learning, with regular online collaborative sessions to meet your peers and your tutors. You can study full-time for one year or flexibly for up to five years, to PGCert, PGDip or MSc level, depending on your needs. If you study flexibly, you pay only for the modules you select each year.
There are no core modules. You create a bespoke programme that suits your interests. Specialist pathways are available, including leadership, primary care, and research, alongside a general pathway for those wanting broader options. Our modules range from the fundamentals in teaching, learning and assessment to topics such as clinical simulation, quality improvement, leadership, and health education research.
A minimum of a relevant upper second-class Bachelor's degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard and relevant professional experience of health care education and training.
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UCL offers a range of financial awards aimed at assisting both prospective and current students with their studies.
Now more than ever, career options are diverse. Alongside the recognition that a qualification from a world-leading university gives you, the Health Professions Education MSc can help you explore the many different opportunities that come with studying education in the health professions.
Whether you are looking for teaching, leadership and management or research-based roles, this programme will help you to navigate educational career routes in diverse settings from universities and policy organisations to clinical workplaces.
Graduates of this programme are currently working across a broad range of areas. According to the HESA Graduate Outcomes survey (2018-2022), some are working as teaching clinicians in a range of disciplines and professional roles, while others have jobs as lecturers and researchers in clinical and non-clinical areas. Graduates can also be found working as healthcare professionals (for example, physiotherapists) and as clinical education policymakers and managers.
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