Master of Science in Physiotherapy (Pre-Registration) Kings College London, UK

The MSc Physiotherapy (pre-registration) provides a contemporary research-enhanced curriculum with a minimum of 1000 hours of professional practice experience and an accelerated route into the profession. It is an ideal study pathway for graduates with a related first degree wishing to become physiotherapists.

The inclusive programme will build on your personal and graduate skills to prepare you for working independently and with others to provide high-quality, person centered care that aims to optimise health, function and well-being for individuals and populations. It aims to promote and support living well and self-management for everyone, including where populations are impacted by structural health inequalities and where people are living with long term conditions.

The programme has a strong emphasis on inclusive education to support skill development for effective communication, evidence-based practice, professionalism and leadership in healthcare, alongside promoting a systematic understanding of the core principles underpinning physiotherapy practice to guide clinical reasoning and health promotion.

Key benefits

• King's Health Partners is one of only six UK Academic Health Science Centres, where world-class research, education and clinical practice are brought together for the benefit of patients by translating cutting-edge research and existing best practice into excellent patient care
• Approved by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP).
• High quality partnership working with professional practice partners and other stakeholders ensures graduates have the knowledge, skills and personal attributes required for working in the NHS, social care and public health, research and education.
• Simulation and Interactive Learning (SaIL) Centres on three sites provide a range of interprofessional high fidelity and low fidelity simulations of hospital and community environments working on advanced communication skills, clinical simulation, and working with patient actors and patient educators
• Innovative teaching partnership with Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
• Established interprofessional learning opportunities with other healthcare professional students in College and practice

Teaching on the Physiotherapy programme brings together excellence in research and practice led by education, clinical and research staff who are experts in their field. We have a strategic partnership with clinicians from our local NHS trust partners, to provide some of the College based clinical and practical teaching. Interprofessional learning with students from other healthcare disciplines (including medicine, nursing, midwifery, dietetics, pharmacy and physiotherapy) and clinical simulation working in high and low fidelity environments and with actors and patient educators is highly valued by our students.

This course is primarily taught at the King’s College London Guy’s and Waterloo Campuses. Please note that locations are determined by where each module is taught and may vary depending on the choice of modules offered at the time. Practice education is arranged in work-based placements in a variety of settings primarily in Greater London although some placements are based further afield in
the south-east of England.