MSc Paediatrics and Child Healthcare Practice

OverviewGreat Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Learning Academy provides outstanding paediatric healthcare, education, training, and development that drives improvements in paediatric care across the world.GOSH is an acute specialist paediatric hospital with a mission to provide world-class care to children and young people with rare, complex, and difficult-to-treat conditions, giving our learners exposure to specialist cases that are hard to find anywhere else in the world. Children deserve the best. Which is why education has always underpinned everything we do.The aim of the GOSH Learning Academy (GLA) is to ensure all healthcare professionals, receive continual support, education, and specialist training to enhance their skills at every stage of their career in the field of paediatric healthcare.You can choose to study a standalone module that will increase your knowledge and competence in your specialist area, or to build a selection of modules into a recognised programme such as a Graduate Certificate (GradCert), Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert), Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) or Master’s (MSc), including awards in specialist areas.Learn more about our programmes below, as well as our modules which can also be taken as standalone CPD modules.Course highlightsTeaching is delivered by expert staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, an international centre of excellence in paediatric care. The Great Ormond Street Hospital Learning aims to provide world-class, multi-professional paediatric healthcare, education, training and developmentIndividualised study pathway tailored to your current and future needs, supported by a programme discussion meeting with GOSH Learning Academy expert staff. It is possible to accredit or recognise prior learning (RPL)Clinically specialised modules ensuring the MSc award is highly applicable to the organisation you work inEnables you to demonstrate mastery in healthcare-related competence and knowledge to contribute to improving professional practice and service developmentFacilitates your acquisition of critical understanding and use of advanced research skills.CareersThe programme will be an asset in developing and furthering a career in your chosen area of specialism within the UK or abroad. Your enhanced knowledge and expertise will provide employment opportunities and progression across the local, national, and international area of specialism.Engagement with the programme and the modules within, will provide evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for professional re-validation with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or other regulatory body.Successful completion of the programme will indicate to employers that you have the abilities and characteristics required of practitioners working in more senior positions. As such, some learners move on to more advanced roles, while others pursue a clinical-academic career.

Meet individual requirements of specific chosen modules; Be currently working with children and young people in a healthcare setting; Hold an undergraduate degree or equivalent. Learners who do not have a degree but who have successfully completed level 6 or 7 CPD modules may be admitted to the programme through the Middlesex Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) process. This will be at the programme leaders discretion.; Evidence commitment to study, professional development to date, consideration of a coherent study pathway and plans for future professional development and progression.; Demonstrate minimum English language requirements. All modules in the programme are delivered in English so IELTS English required with an average score of 6.5 with no less than 6 in a single area.