Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: MSc Full Time: 2 years.
This course develops your knowledge, skills and research capacity to become a physiotherapist who works with athletes and sports teams. You will be challenged to develop strategies to optimise athletes’ health and wellbeing, minimising time lost to injury and maximising performance in training and competition.
You develop your critical thinking and enquiry skills, enabling you to make innovative injury management plans in the context of a sporting environment.
The curriculum has been developed using the International Federation of Sports Physical Therapy competencies and with engagement from clinicians working within professional sporting environments. You will be taught by academic staff with clinical experience of working with athletic populations and external clinicians with experience of working with professional athletes from multi sports will form a key element of the teaching team. The course has been designed to be based upon evidence-based principles which will be used within a robust clinical reasoning framework to allow graduates to develop their skills to apply appropriate injury management and performance enhancement to the sporting individual. The course is modular in delivery and will run over two years full time. Within the first year you will be typically expected to attend University for two days per week. In the second year you will be offered an internship of up to 12 weeks within a sports physiotherapy host site, and will complete a dissertation.
Applicants would normally require a 2:1 degree or above in physiotherapy. A successful DBS check will need to be completed for all students to allow them to work in clinical practice as part of the internship. This will be carried out within the UK following acceptance onto the course. International applicants will require a minimum overall IELTS score of 6.5 (with a minimum score of 6.5 in all sections) or equivalent.
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As a graduate you will have the knowledge and skills to be able to further your career in a professional sports environment. For those working in non-professional sporting environments it is anticipated that you would become a subject matter expert in the management of sports injuries and could transfer this knowledge to practice in either public funded healthcare settings or to private practice.
Year 1 core modules
Developing research projects
Evidence Based Practice
Exercise Physiology and Sports Clinical Biomechanics
Health Promotion and Behavioural Change
Rehabilitation of the Injured Athlete
Sports Injury Prevention
Year 2 core modules
Dissertation
Sports Physiotherapy Internship
Modules offered may vary.
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