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PG Dip Sport and Exercise Medicine Distance Learning

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    PGDip 2 to 4 years part-time distance learning

Course Description

Develop the specialist skills needed to conduct clinical practice in sport and exercise settings. This master’s is exclusively for fully qualified doctors.

This highly flexible academic and clinical master’s degree develops your sport and exercise medicine expertise.

By working with Bath’s team of sports science practitioners, you’ll deepen your knowledge of the musculoskeletal injuries associated with sport. This will enhance your ability to assess, treat, and advise the patients in your practice.

You’ll also develop your:

  • knowledge and clinical skills for providing both primary and specialist sport and exercise medicine care
  • clinical expertise in the aftercare of injuries and rehabilitation
  • ability to provide safe and effective pitch-side emergency care
  • awareness of the signs of mental health issues in sport and the ability to provide confidential support

This course will also provide you with a recognised qualification for indemnity insurance – many team doctor jobs will require this type of qualification.

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).

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Fees

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Student Destinations

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.

Module Details

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

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