MSc in Football Medicine in association with FIFA (3 to 5 years, part-time, distance learning) 36 months Postgraduate Program By University of Bath |Top Universities

Program overview

Main Subject

Health/Healthcare

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

Online

Developed in partnership with FIFA, this specialist master's course equips qualified doctors with the skills to conduct clinical practice in football settings.
This highly flexible academic and clinical master's degree develops your sport and exercise medicine expertise, with a focus on football.
Through a combination of Bath’s clinical expertise and FIFA’s industry insights, you’ll learn advanced football medicine techniques. This will help to enhance your sport-specific or portfolio medical career.
During your studies, you’ll gain the skills needed to improve the preparation, development, and medical management of recreational or elite players; and deepen your clinical knowledge of musculoskeletal injuries, to allow you to better assess, treat, and advise the patients in your practice.
You’ll also develop your:
  • clinical knowledge of the aftercare of injuries and rehabilitation
  • ability to provide safe and effective pitch-side emergency care
  • expertise in injury prevention in football
  • awareness of the signs of mental health issues in sport and the ability to provide confidential support
  • understanding of the ethical and medicolegal issues of working in football
This course will also provide you with a recognised qualification for indemnity insurance - many team doctor jobs will require this type of qualification.

Program overview

Main Subject

Health/Healthcare

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

Online

Developed in partnership with FIFA, this specialist master's course equips qualified doctors with the skills to conduct clinical practice in football settings.
This highly flexible academic and clinical master's degree develops your sport and exercise medicine expertise, with a focus on football.
Through a combination of Bath’s clinical expertise and FIFA’s industry insights, you’ll learn advanced football medicine techniques. This will help to enhance your sport-specific or portfolio medical career.
During your studies, you’ll gain the skills needed to improve the preparation, development, and medical management of recreational or elite players; and deepen your clinical knowledge of musculoskeletal injuries, to allow you to better assess, treat, and advise the patients in your practice.
You’ll also develop your:
  • clinical knowledge of the aftercare of injuries and rehabilitation
  • ability to provide safe and effective pitch-side emergency care
  • expertise in injury prevention in football
  • awareness of the signs of mental health issues in sport and the ability to provide confidential support
  • understanding of the ethical and medicolegal issues of working in football
This course will also provide you with a recognised qualification for indemnity insurance - many team doctor jobs will require this type of qualification.

Admission requirements

6.5+
90+
62+
3+
For students from the UK, you should have a Bachelor of Medicine or Bachelor of Surgery. You should be a qualified medical doctor with full unrestricted registration with the General Medical Council or your country's relevant body.
You should also have a minimum of one year’s work experience as a qualified and registered doctor before enrolment. Please provide a copy of your valid medical licence and details of how to confirm your medical registration online (if applicable).
Please ensure that you submit a personal statement of 250-500 words that outlines your qualifications and experience, your interest in the programme, and how you wish to use the degree after completion. As this is a practice-based course, please include details of your access to patients with sporting injuries and/or conditions where exercise could be prescribed as medicine.
If you are a qualified physiotherapist, but not a medical doctor, then this course is not suitable. You may, however, be interested in our MSc Sports Physiotherapy.
3 Years
Sep

Tuition fee and scholarships

Domestic Students

4,835 GBP
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International Students

8,180 GBP
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