24 monthsProgramme duration
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Medicine
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
The course is a well-established two-year postgraduate education programme, which equips you with the relevant knowledge, develops your clinical capabilities, competencies, and reasoning to work across 20 specialty areas in the UK, such as internal medicine, general practice, surgery and emergency medicine.
You will develop key skills to be able to work within multiprofessional healthcare teams supporting clinical specialists. You will be trained according to the medical model, and learn how to diagnose common conditions, formulate patient healthcare management plans, and understand when to refer patients and ask for help.
Your learning will include a mixture of campus-based activity such as lectures, seminars, face-to-face tutorials, skills lab training and communication skills, as well as clinical placements.
During placements you will be carefully supervised, develop key interpersonal skills with patients and colleagues, and work collaboratively with your clinical supervisor and other healthcare professionals to manage patient care.
On successful completion of the course, you’ll be able to take the national Physician Associate Registration Assessment (PARA), which allows you to register with the General Medical Council and work as a physician associate in the NHS.
You will develop key skills to be able to work within multiprofessional healthcare teams supporting clinical specialists. You will be trained according to the medical model, and learn how to diagnose common conditions, formulate patient healthcare management plans, and understand when to refer patients and ask for help.
Your learning will include a mixture of campus-based activity such as lectures, seminars, face-to-face tutorials, skills lab training and communication skills, as well as clinical placements.
During placements you will be carefully supervised, develop key interpersonal skills with patients and colleagues, and work collaboratively with your clinical supervisor and other healthcare professionals to manage patient care.
On successful completion of the course, you’ll be able to take the national Physician Associate Registration Assessment (PARA), which allows you to register with the General Medical Council and work as a physician associate in the NHS.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Medicine
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
The course is a well-established two-year postgraduate education programme, which equips you with the relevant knowledge, develops your clinical capabilities, competencies, and reasoning to work across 20 specialty areas in the UK, such as internal medicine, general practice, surgery and emergency medicine.
You will develop key skills to be able to work within multiprofessional healthcare teams supporting clinical specialists. You will be trained according to the medical model, and learn how to diagnose common conditions, formulate patient healthcare management plans, and understand when to refer patients and ask for help.
Your learning will include a mixture of campus-based activity such as lectures, seminars, face-to-face tutorials, skills lab training and communication skills, as well as clinical placements.
During placements you will be carefully supervised, develop key interpersonal skills with patients and colleagues, and work collaboratively with your clinical supervisor and other healthcare professionals to manage patient care.
On successful completion of the course, you’ll be able to take the national Physician Associate Registration Assessment (PARA), which allows you to register with the General Medical Council and work as a physician associate in the NHS.
You will develop key skills to be able to work within multiprofessional healthcare teams supporting clinical specialists. You will be trained according to the medical model, and learn how to diagnose common conditions, formulate patient healthcare management plans, and understand when to refer patients and ask for help.
Your learning will include a mixture of campus-based activity such as lectures, seminars, face-to-face tutorials, skills lab training and communication skills, as well as clinical placements.
During placements you will be carefully supervised, develop key interpersonal skills with patients and colleagues, and work collaboratively with your clinical supervisor and other healthcare professionals to manage patient care.
On successful completion of the course, you’ll be able to take the national Physician Associate Registration Assessment (PARA), which allows you to register with the General Medical Council and work as a physician associate in the NHS.
Admission Requirements
7.5+
Applicants should normally have GCSE (or equivalent) in Maths and English at grade C/4 or above, plus one of the following:
- 2:1 honours degree or above in a relevant health or life science, and 150 hours of health or care experience.
- 2:1 honours degree or above in social work, or a physical science with completed degree level biology modules, and 150 hours of health or care experience.
- 2:2 honours degree or above in a relevant life sciences subject (to include a transcript with no more than 4 modules graded at less than 50%) with 300 hours of health or care experience.
2 Years
Sep
Tuition fees
Domestic
13,490 GBP
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