Clinical Education MA

King's College London, University of London

The Masters in Clinical Education provides a flexible framework for pursuing your professional development goals as an educator in the health professions. The programme is carefully tailored to the needs of health professionals who engage in teaching, training, supervising, and supporting the learning of colleagues in the clinical professions. On completion of the postgraduate certificate, you will become a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). You will also be eligible to become a Member of the Academy of Medical Educators (AoME) upon application.

Key benefits

• Firmly embedded in the practice of professionals working in healthcare settings.
• Links with interprofessional Continuing Professional Development.
• Relates theories of teaching and learning to the context of clinical practice.
• Designed and delivered at one of the largest centres for healthcare education in Europe.
• Located in the heart of London.

Masters in Clinical Education

Once participants have advanced through the Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma stages of the Programme successfully, and by agreement from the programme team, they can register on the Dissertation Module to complete the Masters in Clinical Education. The dissertation, which consists of an extended piece of written work of between 10,000 and 15,000 words, enables participants to demonstrate their ability to plan, carry out and evaluate a piece of research into an aspect of their academic practice. It will be an original piece of work, which might, for example, present new evidence on a familiar aspect of teaching and learning apply established leadership models or theories to a new context or present an independent critique of an existing body of theory.