MSc Paediatrics and Child Health: Advanced Paediatrics

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. 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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UCL offers a range of financial awards aimed at assisting both prospective and current students with their studies.

This Master’s degree will help you understand the core principles of evidence-based paediatrics and child health. Many of our graduates have gone onto start or complete their specialist paediatric training, into careers as consultants in paediatrics or senior professionals in other related fields including with the NHS, government health departments, ministries of health and NGOs all over the world.* The course also provides an ideal foundation for doctoral research in this field. * Graduate Outcomes survey carried out by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), looking at the destinations of UK and EU graduates in the cohorts 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23.

Compulsory modules

• Research Project Report
• Applied Statistics for Health Research I
• Evidence-based Child Health
• 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

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
• reasonable adjustments
• Student Support and Wellbeing Services
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• UCL Student Support and Wellbeing Services.