MSc Sport and Exercise Medicine Distance Learning

To apply for this course, you should have a Bachelor of Medicine or Bachelor of Surgery. You should be a qualified medical doctor with full unrestricted registration with the General Medical Council or your country’s relevant body.

You should also have a minimum of one year’s work experience as a qualified and registered doctor before enrolment. Please provide a copy of your valid medical licence and details of how to confirm your medical registration online (if applicable).

Please ensure that you submit a personal statement of 250-500 words that outlines your qualifications and experience, your interest in the programme, and how you wish to use the degree after completion. As this is a practice-based course, please include details of your access to patients with sporting injuries and/or conditions where exercise could be prescribed as medicine.

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By the end of the course, you will be qualified to work with athletes and sports teams at the highest level. You will also be better equipped to assess, treat and advise patients in relation to musculoskeletal injuries, and to advise patients about the health benefits of exercise more generally.

Some of our recent graduates have taken roles with:

• The Olympic and Paralympic Games
• Professional clubs and teams
• The NHS
• The UK Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine

If you want to continue your research alongside professional practice, we also provide an established Professional Doctorate, offering a route for MSc students interested in continuing their research to doctoral level while working part-time.

Year 1

Semester 1

Compulsory units

• Sport and exercise medicine in practice I
• The sport and exercise doctor

Semester 2

Compulsory units

• Exercise behaviour change for population health
• Foundations of biomechanics and physiology for clinicians
• Sport and exercise medicine in practice I
  Continued

Year 2

Semester 1

Compulsory units

• From injury to rehabilitation for sport and exercise
• Sport and exercise medicine in practice II

Semester 2

You’ll choose one optional unit.

Compulsory units

• Psychology of sports medicine
• Sport and exercise medicine in practice II
  Continued

Optional units

• Applied football medicine
• Contemporary issues in sport and exercise
• Dance and the artistic athlete
• The travelling athlete

Year 3

Semester 1

Compulsory units

• Research project

Semester 2

Compulsory units

• Research project