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Study mode

Full time

Duration

2 years

Start date

SEP

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

MSc - Master of Science

Subject areas

Chiropody

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

This MSc Podiatry (Pre-Registration) course provides graduates with a route into a fulfilling career in podiatry, helping people improve their health and wellbeing and their quality of life. Delivered full-time, the course has a clinical and health promotion focus.

The course includes multiple Scotland-wide practice placements and on completion you will be able to apply for full registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) to work as a podiatrist.

Why QMU?

Our reputation: Podiatric education at Queen Margaret University is well established, extremely popular, and well respected throughout the profession

Employability: The course has great employability rates with our graduates going on to work in the NHS, private practice, or setting up their own business.

Staff expertise: The teaching team includes six registered podiatrists who have strong links with the podiatric profession within Scotland and across the UK. The University’s clinically relevant research along with the broad range of experience of the teaching team ensures that the course remains current.

Placements: Your practice placements are an invaluable way of consolidating the theoretical knowledge you learn from weekly teaching, experiential opportunities and small group tutorials. The QMU podiatry programme team have links with multiple NHS boards around Scotland, and so you will have the opportunity to undertake block placements Scotland wide at specific points within the course.

Modules

Will develop the critical and practical skills required to carry out appropriate assessment/tests to underpin diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal/orthopaedics conditions affecting the lower limbs.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£9,970

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£18,400

Entry requirements

A second class honours degree in any discipline other than podiatry. However, where the undergraduate degree is not science or engineering based, applicants should be able to be able to demonstrate research skills. This may have been achieved through completion of a research project as part of the undergraduate degree. This course is not suitable for those already holding a podiatry degree qualification.