MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice
Brunel University London, United Kingdom
Total Course Fee
USD 27,201
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Are you an experienced healthcare professional? Are you looking for the right qualifications to further your career? Perhaps you're a practising occupational therapist, physiotherapist or nurse, for example, and would like to develop your medical career into a leadership role? This course has been designed with this in mind.
- 1 year full-time
- 3 years part-time
- 2 years (PgCert PgDip) part-time
- 1 year (staged study) part-time
- There are an increasing number of people who are living with complex and long-term health conditions and healthcare practitioners are needing to develop new skills in order to better meet their needs. This course helps to bridge that gap by developing your advanced patient assessment skills, complex decision-making skills and professional expertise to develop you into an autonomous practitioner.
- You’ll gain the practical knowledge alongside a theoretical understanding of advance practice in order to take on advanced clinical roles within a range of healthcare settings, sectors and specialities. You’ll learn how to improve the capabilities of an interdisciplinary medical team and, through research-informed decisions, enhance service delivery in order to improve your patients quality of care.
- Whether you’re based within hospital or community settings, this course will build on your current skills and experience so that you’ll be able to lead and support the development and delivery of advanced clinical practice. On successful completion, you’ll have gained the necessary skills and knowledge to take on expanded roles and scope of practice, caring for patients within your clinical area.
- The full master's course can be studied 1 year full-time or 3 years part-time starting in September. If you don’t want to commit to full or part-time study of the entire master's, you can develop your educational portfolio over a longer period of time by undertaking staged study that leads to the award of Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert), Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip) and MSc in separate stages. Each stage can be studied 1 year part-time starting in September. You can also study the combined PgDip (PgCert and PgDip) as a 2 year part-time course starting in January. The MSc stage (dissertation) can also be studied 1 year part-time starting in May.
Enrollment Cycles
- May 2023
- September 2023
- January 2024
- Must have a pre-registration degree in a relevant allied health profession with at least one year of specialist clinical work experience.
- You’ll benefit from a course designed to incorporate a multidisciplinary perspective, necessary for leading in today’s global health care systems. You’ll learn a holistic approach to patient care alongside clinical leadership skills and how to use evidence-based practice and research to make informed decisions that grow your knowledge and expertise.
- You’ll study key modules in advanced clinical practice, clinical leadership, evidence-based practice and research and, in addition to the option module listed below, you'll also be able to select from a range of optional modules from our Advanced Clinical Practice named specialist pathways in Cardiovascular Health, Critical Care, Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, Neurological Rehabilitation, Occupational Therapy and Pelvic Health. This will give you the opportunity to advance your practice.
- At Brunel, we understand the challenges of fitting study around work and family life. For this reason, we have designed this course to be flexible, so that it can fit around your current commitments. You can study full-time, part-time or even just take one or more CPPD modules for your professional development and return to complete your course at a later date.
- This course can be studied 1 year full-time, 3 years part-time or 1 year (staged study) part-time, starting in September. Or this course can be studied 2 years (PgCert PgDip) part-time, starting in January. Or this course can be studied 1 year (staged study) part-time, starting in May.
Year 1
Compulsory
- PH5612 - Advanced Clinical Leadership
- PH5604 - Qualitative Research in Health and Social Care
- PH5603 - Quantitative Methods and Design for Health Science Research
- PH5611 - Dissertation
Optional
- PH5615 - Facilitating Learning and Teaching in Clinical Practice
- UK
- £8,485 full-time
- £4,240 part-time
- UK Staged Master £2,825 per stage.
- Fees quoted are per year and are subject to an annual increase.
- Fees for EU applicants – For entry in 2021/22 academic year, eligible EU applicants will have the same tuition fees as UK students to support EU students during this transition period. These fees will be applied for the duration of the course. EU fees for 2022 entry are not yet confirmed.