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MSc Football Medicine in association with FIFA – Distance Learning

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    MSc 3 to 5 years part-time distance learning

Course Description

Developed in partnership with FIFA, this specialist master’s course equips qualified doctors with the skills to conduct clinical practice in football settings.

This highly flexible academic and clinical master’s degree develops your sport and exercise medicine expertise, with a focus on football.

Through a combination of Bath’s clinical expertise and FIFA’s industry insights, you’ll learn advanced football medicine techniques. This will help to enhance your sport-specific or portfolio medical career.

During your studies, you’ll gain the skills needed to improve the preparation, development, and medical management of recreational or elite players; and deepen your clinical knowledge of musculoskeletal injuries, to allow you to better assess, treat, and advise the patients in your practice.

You’ll also develop your:

  • clinical knowledge of the aftercare of injuries and rehabilitation
  • ability to provide safe and effective pitch-side emergency care
  • expertise in injury prevention in football
  • awareness of the signs of mental health issues in sport and the ability to provide confidential support
  • understanding of the ethical and medicolegal issues of working in football

Entry Requirements

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.

If you are a qualified physiotherapist, but not a medical doctor, then this course is not suitable. You may, however, be interested in our MSc Sports Physiotherapy.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

By the end of your studies, you will be qualified to work with footballers and/or teams from grassroots to elite levels in a variety of football medicine roles (such as team doctor).

Throughout the course, you’ll become 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.

Recent Department for Health graduates have gone on to work for leading organisations in the field of football, including:

  • FIFA Medical Department
  • The Premier League
  • UEFA
  • Manchester United FC
  • The FA

Module Details

Year 1

Semester 1

Compulsory units

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

Semester 2

Compulsory units

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

Year 2

Semester 1

Compulsory units

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

Semester 2

Compulsory units

  • Applied football medicine
  • Football medicine in practice II
    Continued
  • Psychology of sports medicine

Year 3

Semester 1

Compulsory units

  • Research project

Semester 2

Compulsory units

  • Research project
    Continued

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