School of Health Professions postgraduate programmes

Make it count with a masters
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Become a healthcare professional
Our MSc programmes are suitable for those with an undergraduate degree looking to undertake a new career pathway in healthcare. Offering you the opportunity to develop the skills and expertise to achieve a professional accreditation in a range of occupations.

Our programmes

Nutrition
MSc Human Nutrition
Designed for graduates with a non-nutrition background, this broad-ranging programme offers you an advanced understanding of nutrition and the links between diet and health.
Occupational Therapy research
MSc Occupational Therapy (Pre-registration)
On this two year masters programme you'll learn how to enhance people’s occupational engagement in everyday life in order to meet their biological, psychological, social and spiritual needs through exploration and adaptation.
Sarah Piercy receives strength and conditioning advice from Lecturer in Physiotherapy Dr Erin Byrd
MSc Physiotherapy (Pre-registration)
Become a fully qualified Physiotherapist in two-years with this full-time accelerated course for graduates.

Preparing you for a rewarding and exciting career

Our state-of-the-art facilities and equipment help you maximise your potential and develop core skills, preparing you to be a future healthcare professional.
Simulated practice requires a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical skills, in order to keep our patients and service users safe. When learning skills, students need an understanding of why, when and how that action is best carried out, which is why we have invested in our clinical skills labs
Diagnostic radiography students using clinical skills facilities  

Your career as a healthcare professional starts here

The first-class new home for our healthcare teaching and research providing students with skills to meet the needs of 21st century careers.

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InterCity Place
A unique new learning space where undergraduate and postgraduate students from the largest breadth of health disciplines in the South West learn together under one roof, with expert practitioners.
Medical students using the Anatomage table clinical
Plymouth Integrative Health and Social Care Education Centre (PIHC)
Experience an interprofessional learning environment across our health programmes that will prepare you for life as a healthcare professional.
First choice for health
Become a healthcare professional of the future
Collaboration across the schools helps students to learn with, from and about each other, gaining real-world experience employers seek.