MSc/PgDip/PgCert Advancing Physiotherapy
Full-time, Part-time
Location • Collegiate Campus
Subject area • Physiotherapy
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At a glance
Advance your practice as an experienced physiotherapist by gaining new and specialist skills in key areas. You also develop independent thinking around the subject and are encouraged to challenge and explore established concepts.
Key points
• Enhance your practice as an experienced physiotherapist.
• Learn to challenge and explore the fundamental concepts of physiotherapy.
• Specialise in musculoskeletal manual therapy, respiratory physiotherapy and neurological rehabilitation.
• Consolidate previous academic work as part of this qualification.
Continue your professional development as an experienced physiotherapist on a course that offers new skills and knowledge through a range of varied and specialist modules.
This course is designed for experienced and specialised physiotherapists. It facilitates independent thinking that challenges and explores key concepts, conceptual approaches and philosophies relating to physiotherapy.
A range of module choices and flexible delivery offers you studies tailored to the needs of your workplace and allow you to gain expertise in an area of your practice. We offer you specialist modules in musculoskeletal manual therapy, respiratory physiotherapy and neurological rehabilitation.
The course consists of modules that carry credit points which can be taken individually. In order to gain a postgraduate certificate 60 credits are needed. A postgraduate diploma is awarded after 120 credits and 180 credits for MSc.
We assist with your module selection to ensure that the course meets your interests and aspirations. Module choice can be discussed with the course leader before enrolling and throughout the course.
You learn via a student-led approach with • seminars • workshops • discussions and presentation • keynote lectures • problem-based learning • online learning. Some modules are clinically-based and some explore health issues across different areas of professional healthcare.
Study individual modules
You can study individual modules from this course and gain academic credit towards a qualification. Visit our continuing professional development website for more information.
If you have prior experiential learning, such as modules studied at other universities, work-based learning and independent study, you may be able to gain credit towards this qualification for it.
Related courses
Full-time – typically 18 months
Part-time – typically three years depending on the modules taken, with a maximum of six years
Starts September and January
Complete the application form available at www.shu.ac.uk/study/form
2013/14 academic year
Musculoskeletal route (includes placement)
Full-time – typically £5,355
Part-time – typically £1,785 a stage for PgCert, PgDip and MSc stages
All other routes
Full-time – typically £4,590
Part-time – typically £1,530 a stage for PgCert, PgDip and MSc stages
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees and funding see www.shu.ac.uk/funding
2013/14 academic year
Typically £12,060 for the course
2014/15 academic year
Typically £12,150 for the course
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees, scholarships and bursaries see www.shu.ac.uk/international/fees
This varies from module to module.
The emphasis is on appropriateness and relevance to your professional practice needs, therefore an assessment may include elements of choice. Often, it relates to activity in the workplace where you may need to apply your theoretical learning to a real situation.
This course is endorsed by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. You also have the opportunity to gain Musculoskeletal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (MACP) membership.
Physiotherapy training room
The physiotherapy room at our Collegiate Campus gives students a hands on experience as it would be in a real environment.
Staff profiles
Visit the Department of Allied Health Professions website to view profiles of the staff who teach in this subject area.
