Medical Education, MSc / PGDip / PGCert
Swansea UniversitySingleton Park Campus, United Kingdom
Course overview
Are you a busy working healthcare professional or academic who has an interest in the teaching of medical and other healthcare professionals? Our MSc Medical Education degree could give you the skills you need to enhance your career prospects. Our multidisciplinary programme offers a flexible blended learning approach of distance learning with residential workshops to suit busy working professionals.
You will study the science of learning and the evidence base for educational practice, it's links to educational theory and the practice of education in healthcare in a variety of settings and roles. The programme is professionally focused, and applied to education within different contexts, such as classroom, clinic and community. You will explore the key challenges, contemporary issues and the latest research in medical and health professions education, and help you develop knowledge and skills in curriculum development, teaching, learning, assessment, and conducting educational research into yours and others educational practice.
Key highlights
- Blended learning combining distance study with residential workshops
- Designed for working healthcare professionals and academics
- Multidisciplinary focus on teaching medical and healthcare professionals
- Covers curriculum development, teaching, learning and assessment
- Applies education across classroom, clinic and community settings
- Builds skills in conducting research into educational practice
Entry requirements
- Degree: 2:2 — 2:2
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
- Clinical educator
- Medical education lecturer
- Clinical teaching fellow
- Healthcare education lead
- Curriculum developer in health professions education
- Medical education researcher
Cost of study
UK/Home: £11,100 per year | International: £18,500 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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