Clinical Exercise Physiology MSc

University of Bedfordshire

About the course

This unique postgraduate course, with its multidisciplinary approach to teaching, allows you to build on your sport and exercise background so you can transition into clinical settings specialising in exercise physiology.

If you are interested in investigating the physiological consequences of chronic debilitating diseases, then this Master’s gives you the opportunity for detailed study. It explores particularly how exercise testing can detect the changes these diseases cause and how to safely prescribe exercise to different clinical populations to improve quality of life.

The course gives you a solid grounding in the theory and application of physiological tests in clinical populations including graded cardiopulmonary exercise testing; cardiac ultrasound; vascular ultrasound; and muscle-function analyses. Throughout, you increase your skills through supervised practical sessions at our Community Exercise Clinic, meeting a range of clinical populations including neurological, cardiac, dementia and hypotensive, among others.

This Clinical Exercise Physiology MSc is in the process of applying for course accreditation with the Academy for Healthcare Science (AHCS, incorporating RCCP); we hope this will be in place for 2023-entry students.

Why choose this course?

• Gain from the opportunity to practice your skills on work placement and shadow experienced staff
• Develop the high-level statutory professional standards demanded of members of a healthcare team
• Study with an academic team who have world-leading expertise in their fields and are actively involved in research
• The course content is aligned to the academic framework of Clinical Exercise Physiology UK (CEP-UK); the CIMSPA 'Working with Long-term Conditions' curriculum is also embedded throughout, giving you the opportunity to gain this additional qualification
• Enjoy the ideal environment for scientific exploration and practical skills development with facilities that include six BASES-accredited sport and exercise science laboratories; Human Performance Centre; a nutrition research kitchen; two molecular and cellular physiology labs; and a sports therapy and rehabilitation centre with a sports injury clinic
• Benefit from our successful partnerships with professional sports teams, elite athletes, academies, schools, colleges and other relevant organisations