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PG Cert Paediatrics and Child Health

  • DeadlineStudy Details: PGCert 1 year part-time, flexible up to 2 years

Masters Degree Description

This programme is based at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH), benefiting from the unique position the institute occupies within UK paediatrics and child health. This programme consists of your choice of four modules. Upon successful completion of 60 credits, you will be awarded a PG Certificate in Paediatrics and Child Health.

With its inaugural year in 1986, originally as the MSc in Community Paediatrics, this postgraduate programme is part of the longest-running paediatric health MSc in London. We continually aim to improve it based on student feedback and changing demands within the Health Service and Academic sectors. Teaching takes place at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (GOS ICH) in close collaboration with colleagues from Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust with lectures from national and international experts across most clinical and research areas.

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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

Many of our graduates have gone onto careers as consultants in Paediatrics or senior professionals in other related fields. 

Module Details

Optional modules

  •  Epidemiology for Child Health
  •  Immunisation and Communicable Diseases
  •  Safeguarding and Children in Society
  •  Child Public Health
  •  Nutrition, Growth and Physical Activity
  •  Applied Statistics for Health Research I
  •  Leadership and Professional Development
  •  Clinical Genomics Genetic and Rare Diseases
  •  Specialist Paediatrics I
  •  Specialist Paediatrics II
  •  Molecular Biology of Normal Development and Birth Defects
  •  Molecular and Clinical Aspects of Childhood Cancers
  •  Adolescent Health Medicine
  •  Paediatric Critical Care (General)
  •  Stabilisation and Transport of the Critically Ill Child
  •  Cardiac Critical Care
  •  Evidence-based Child Health
  •  Ethics and Law for Paediatrics and Child Health
  •  Neonatal Intensive Care
  •  Practising Qualitative Research in Child and Adolescent Health

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