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Study Details: MSc 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time, 5 years flexible
This comprehensive programme is based at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH). As a student, you will benefit from the unique position the institute occupies within UK paediatrics. We bring together strong links to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children with our setting within the powerful teaching and research environment of UCL.
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.
Who this course is for
The programme is intended for professionals specialising in paediatrics and child health. The Paediatrics and Child Health: Community Child Health programme is aimed principally at health professionals with experience in child health or public health from countries with developed health services who wish to gain the skills necessary to become a community child health practitioner.
Medically qualified applicants should have post-qualification experience in paediatrics or child health. Non-medically qualified applicants should have an upper second-class UK bachelor’s degree or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard, and experience of working in hospitals, community child health or public health services for children and families.
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As a graduate of this programme, you will have valuable academic and clinical skills in community practice which you will be able to employ in the workplace. Medical graduates based in the UK can continue in their career pathway in community child health.
Employability
This programme provides the skills necessary to become a community health practitioner. On graduation, you will be able to assess the need for child health services and planning of services and understand the rationale and organisation of preventive child health services and the relationship between social conditions and health.
Compulsory modules
Optional modules
Please note that the list of modules given here is indicative. This information is published a long time in advance of enrolment and module content and availability are subject to change.
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