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Physician Associate Studies at Queen Mary University of London - UCAS

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Course summary

MSc Physician Associate Studies at Queen Mary is a fast-paced and intensive 24-month course. It’s specifically designed for graduates with a background in the life sciences, biomedicine, health sciences, or allied health professionals interested in pursuing a challenging and exciting career in healthcare.

  • Excellent clinical placements, at a number of leading GP practices and NHS Trusts across London
  • Extensive network of academic and NHS collaborators around the UK
  • Strong foundation for careers which have excellent employment prospects, as the demand for physician associates outweighs the supply
  • During the training you will rotate between different clinical specialties and areas of practice and develop a varied ‘portfolio’ career with a strong patient focus.
  • Be placed on the Physician Associate Managed Voluntary Register (PMVR) at the Faculty of Physician Associates, Royal College of Physicians
This course will prepare you to become a physician associate; a collaborative healthcare professional with a generalist medical education. In the UK, physician associates work in a multidisciplinary team alongside doctors, surgeons, and GPs, providing medical care to patients in hospital and in community settings. The programme of this course is aligned with both the needs of healthcare employers and the strategic aims of the NHS. This course is delivered through blended learning - a combination of classroom and online lectures, team-based and flipped classroom model - where you will digest the learning material before your lecture and classroom time will be used to deepen understanding through discussion with peers, and problem-solving activities facilitated by teachers. All clinical skills will be delivered face-to-face at Robin Brook Centre, St Bartholomew’s hospital. You will have clinical placements throughout. There is a spiral progression curriculum and you are expected to build on and use material taught throughout the course. Please see website for full course details. Application deadline for January 2023 entry is 30 September 2022

Modules

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Assessment method

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How to apply

International applicants

Please see: www.qmul.ac.uk/international-students

Entry requirements

A 2:1 or above at undergraduate level in a Biological, Biomedical or Health Profession degree . Applicants will be considered primarily on the basis of their first degree, which includes integrated Masters programmes such as MSci, and performance in the CASPER test. More details can be found on the website.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

Students enrolling on a postgraduate degree programme are charged tuition fees each year by Queen Mary. The rate you will be charged depends on whether you are assessed as a Home/EU or Overseas student. You can find tuition fees for each course on the course finder pages on our website: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/ Further details about postgraduate taught tuition fees can also be found on our website: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/tuitionfees/

Sponsorship information

Please see: www.qmul.ac.uk/scholarships

Physician Associate Studies at Queen Mary University of London - UCAS