MSc Advanced Musculoskeletal Assessment and Practice

This pathway enables clinicians in the musculoskeletal field to advance their practice. All students will engage in material related to clinical decision making and there are options available to advance clinical skills, including injection therapy and independent prescribing. There is flexibility within this pathway for students to direct their learning to topics of personal interest.

We:

• Provide you with a critical understanding of the key concepts underlying advanced musculoskeletal clinical skills beyond your normal professional scope of practice.
• Provide you with the opportunity to acquire advanced musculoskeletal clinical skills beyond your normal professional scope of practice.
• Provide you with skills to access and critically appraise research findings to develop your own evidence-based practice.
• Enhance your understanding of the essential principles of research design and to conduct an extensive piece of independent research including: planning, formulating, designing, choosing research methods, collecting data, analysing, interpreting and writing-up.
• Ensure you acquire a range of transferable employment-related skills.