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MSc Advanced Professional Practice (Health and Social Care Professions)

University of Plymouth

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Course options

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  • Qualification

    MSc - Master of Science

  • Location

    Plymouth Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    SEP

  • Duration

    1 Year

Course summary

You'll develop your current knowledge and expertise, linking it to contemporary literature, theory and research and apply it to your area of practice. Our range of programme optional modules, shared across a large range of named pathway awards, give you the flexibility and choice to tailor your learning to your workplace.Study alongside an interprofessional range of health and social care professionals from a variety of backgrounds, for example allied health professionals, nursing, medical and social care. Choose from optional modules in a range of specialist areas such as management of long-term conditions (service delivery), practice education and evaluating outcomes. Specialist modules such as injection therapy can be taken as individual CPD options. Further options are also available from our named pathways.Complete the programme in a year, with a one year full-time study option. Alternatively, balance work and caring commitments by studying part time over two years and up to a maximum of five years. The full-time route is suitable for international students, who will be supported to choose optional modules with non-clinical assignments.Make the most of our approach to blended learning, which combines short study blocks and distance learning technologies with face-to-face teaching, enhancing the learning process by allowing time for reflection. Study comprises a mixture of lectures, practicals, seminars and tutorials.A range of assessments are used across our modules, designed to link your knowledge and skills to your area of practice. This will also enable you to develop advanced practitioner skills, including evidence-based case studies, portfolios and service delivery proposals as well as written and oral work.Learn from research-active teaching staff with national and international reputations in their specialist area. You’ll be encouraged to join the faculty’s research groups, nested under the Plymouth Institute of Health and Care Research, and will work with our experienced staff on your own research project.Choose from three award pathways with full and part-time options: postgraduate certificate (PgCert), 60 credits postgraduate diploma (PgDip), 120 credits and masters (MSc), 180 credits.From 2023, students in Plymouth can train and practice their professional healthcare skills in an inspiring purpose-built environment, InterCity Place.

Tuition fees

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£ 20,150per year

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University information

University of Plymouth

University of Plymouth

University of Plymouth

  • University League Table

    67th

  • Campus address

    University of Plymouth- Plymouth Campus, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA, United Kingdom

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Join a thriving international community made up of 2,000 students from over 100 different countries.
Find your uni family in one of many international student groups at the Students' Union.
To reward outstanding achievement and to help ease concerns you may have about funding your studies, the university offers several international scholarships.

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Social Work

    20th out of 75 7

  • Entry standards

    / Max 178
    120 67%

    26th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    96.0 96%

    10th

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.17 79%

    43rd

    2

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