Diabetes Practice, MSc / PGDip / PGCert
Swansea UniversitySingleton Park Campus, United Kingdom
Course overview
If you are a health professional with a specialist interest in diabetes, or you want to develop your knowledge and skills in this area, our bespoke MSc Diabetes Practice programme, will advance your understanding and clinical skills. This is a flexible distance learning programme, structured to fit around your busy working life. Our multi-disciplinary curriculum will combine distance online learning with practical skills delivered in two five-day residential workshops.
This unique programme, designed with the needs of future diabetes specialist nurses in mind, will provide you with fundamental and advanced knowledge in clinical skills, experience and professional behaviour, and will address knowledge gaps in order to address the health and care needs of people with diabetes. You will also gain a comprehensive understanding of diabetes treatments, technologies and different situations which can affect management of the condition.
Key highlights
- Flexible distance learning designed around working health professionals
- Two five-day residential workshops for practical clinical skills
- Multi-disciplinary curriculum shaped for future diabetes specialist nurses
- Covers diabetes treatments, technologies and factors affecting condition management
- Develops advanced clinical skills, experience and professional behaviour
Entry requirements
- Degree: 2:1 — 2:1.
Scholarships
Chevening Scholarships
International Postgraduate Alumni Bursaries
First Class - £5,000 per year; Second Class, First division - £3,000 per year; Second Class, Second division - £1,000 per year; Taught Masters to Research Degree - £3,000 per year subject to satisfactory progress.
Swansea University International Postgraduate Research Excellence Scholarship (SUIPRES)
The SUIPRES Scholarship covers the difference between the International and the Home tuition fee rate for the duration of the PhD/Professional Doctorate programme.
Careers this course leads to
- Diabetes Specialist Nurse
- Diabetes Nurse Consultant
- Diabetes Specialist Dietitian
- Diabetes Specialist Pharmacist
- Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Cost of study
UK/Home: £5,200 per year | International: £11,500 per year
Admission
Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to Swansea University, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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