MSc/PgDip/PgCert Applying Physiotherapy
Full-time, Part-time
Location • Collegiate Campus
Subject area • Physiotherapy
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At a glance
If you have little or no postgraduate clinical experience in physiotherapy you can choose this course to improve your career prospects by gaining additional skills and a postgraduate qualification. The course includes many skills that are required for HCPC registration and can be used as evidence to support your application.
Key points
• Gain additional skills and qualifications to enhance your career potential.
• Specialise in areas of physiotherapy most suited to your career aims with optional modules.
• Use completed modules as evidence in your HCPC registration application.
• Choose the whole course or individual modules depending on your requirements.
If you are a qualified physiotherapist who has little or no postgraduate clinical experience, you can use this course to gain additional experience and skills to prepare for you career. You can also choose this course if you’ve had a gap in your professional working life and wish to practise again.
The course is designed to be clinically relevant to physiotherapy practice both in the UK and internationally. Your fellow students come from various cultural backgrounds and bring a range of experiences with them. You draw on this diversity during the course, sharing ideas and experience, comparing and contrasting clinical experiences and background.
You learn to evaluate your practice critically through an evidence-based approach. You cater for your own professional development needs, by choosing modules and assignment topics specific to your interests.
Your studies are based around active and independent learning. All of your modules have a clinical focus and build on your clinical experience. Each module allows you to apply your learning to the clinical context as part of the course and, where appropriate, we use patients as part of the module delivery.
You may be seeking to gain Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration. Our course is designed to include many skills that are required for HCPC registration. This means that you can use completed modules as evidence to support your application for HCPC registration but attending this course does not guarantee HCPC registration.
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.
Part-time students can complete some modules whilst working. For example, one student had an internship with the European Space Agency and gained masters credits for the project he did whilst there.
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Related courses
Full-time – 18 months
Part-time – typically three years
Starts September and January
Complete the application form available at www.shu.ac.uk/study/form
2013/14 academic year
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
Coursework, ranging from written assignments to verbal presentations. There are no formal written examinations, but some modules involve practical assessment.
This course is endorsed by the by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. It also addresses the educational requirements of physiotherapists who are seeking Health and Care Professions Council registration.
Physiotherapy training room
The physiotherapy room at our Collegiate Campus gives students a hands on experience as it would be in a real environment.
Puja Trivedi
MSc Applying Physiotherapy
What made you choose to study at Sheffield Hallam?
I looked for safety, living cost and course details and structures. That is what clicked for me about Sheffield Hallam.
Did you have any communication with Sheffield Hallam before you arrived?
Yes, I had contact with my course leader through emails.
Why did you choose your course?
The UK is pretty advanced in terms of physiotherapy. Australia is even better in the field, but the course in UK is only one year and does not have work experience as pre-requisite, whereas my other option Australia had mandatory work experience of two years and also courses was two years long.
What were your first impressions of the UK, Sheffield and the University?
My first impression of the UK was that it was a country with a lot of character and that Sheffield is as advanced and safe as it is student city. I felt that Sheffield Hallam was technologically advanced, well planned and upbeat.
What are your experiences of the facilities at Sheffield Hallam?
The University has amazing facilities. The staff are very helpful and the facilities and variety available shows good planning. In term time it may get difficult to get computers, but they can always be booked in advance. Library help desk is very efficient.
What you do in your spare time?
I use the gym at Sport Hallam, socialise with my friends from international student society and go shopping on the high street.
What is your accommodation like?
I currently live in private accommodation, but I found it through university accommodation service, so I knew that it would match up to university standards.
What are your plans for the future? Will you stay in the UK after graduation?
Yes I am planning to apply for PSW and work here and maybe after two years will do my PhD here as well.
Kricia Lewis
MSc Applying Physiotherapy, 2010 graduate
What made you choose to study at Sheffield Hallam?
Sheffield Hallam University has quite a name back home in India, especially for physiotherapy courses. The University was recommended by many of my friends and family.
Why did you choose your course?
I wanted to pursue further studies in Physiotherapy itself and the course structure at Sheffield Hallam involved both practical work and research, which was exactly what I wanted.
What were your hopes and fears about studying abroad?
I hoped to gain new skills and techniques and have access to the best knowledge in research. I did wonder whether or not I would be able to cope with the study structure abroad and whether I will get any help from tutors. I also worried about whether or not I will be able to make friends with other national or international students.
What were your first impressions of the UK, Sheffield and the University?
Sheffield is a lovely green city and also very safe which I did not expect. People here are warm and kind. The University wer helpful at every stage right from the airport pick up to sorting out my accommodation. A number of International students, especially students from my own country were always ready to help. All in all it was a good experience coming to Sheffield Hallam.
What are the differences between how you are taught in this country and your home country?
Studying in this country is a lot different from my home country. The University promotes self-directed learning which is not the case back home. It was very difficult in the beginning to adjust to studying in that way. Classes in India are held throughout the week whereas on my course it is just twice a week. But eventually I did get used to it. Learning on my own, giving presentations and submitting assignments was different but also an interesting effective method of education.
What are your experiences of making friends/meeting your fellow international students?
I made many new friends both from my home country and also other countries like Europe and the Middle East. It has been a great experience meeting them and learning about their culture and traditions. We have had lots of parties together and enjoyed different kinds of food and music.
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