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MSc Paediatrics and Child Health: Global Child Health

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    MSc 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time, 5 years flexible

Course Description

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: Global Child Health MSc aims to provide an opportunity for graduates from medicine and related fields, to study global issues in child health. You will build an awareness of current and future developments in paediatric medicine and global child health and gain the skills necessary to critically appraise practice and policy, and undertake independent research if the full MSc is taken.

Entry Requirements

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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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

As a graduate of this programme, you will have valuable academic and clinical skills in global child health which you will be able to employ in the workplace. Graduates can continue in their career pathway in global child health internationally.

Employability

This programme prepares students to be future leaders with high-level organisational and management skills together with the ability to incorporate research and evidence-based practice into health services for children.

The programme provides an ideal foundation for further professional development in paediatrics and child health and related specialities in a global context.

Module Details

Compulsory modules

  •  Evidence-based Child Health
  •  Research Methodology and Statistics
  •  Essentials of Global Child Health
  •  Research Project Report

Optional modules

  • Respiration Through Life, Health and Disease
  • International Child Mental Health
  • Epidemiology for Child Health
  • Immunisation and Communicable Diseases
  • Safeguarding and Children in Society
  • Child Public Health
  • Nutrition, Growth and Physical Activity
  • 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
  • Ethics and Law for Paediatrics and Child Health
  • Neonatal Intensive Care
  • Conflict, Humanitarianism and Health
  • Key Principles of Health Economics
  • Collecting and Using Data: Essentials of Quantitative Survey Research
  • Health Systems in a Global Context
  • Regression Modelling
  • Concepts and Controversies in Global Health

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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