Sport and Exercise Medicine

Within this Sport and Exercise Medicine MSc program from The University of Exeter you'll:

• Be taught in an outstanding teaching and learning environment, as recognised through the awarding of a Gold rating in the UK Government’s first national Teaching Excellence Framework.

• The majority of the program is based at St Luke’s Campus, providing a unique collaborative setting and range of facilities. The campus culture has a focus on research in exercise and health, with thriving societies in Sport and Health Sciences and Sport and Exercise Medicine.

• The subject areas you will study are underpinned by internationally recognised research, with a diverse range of optional modules allied to our research expertise.

• Your peers will include a diverse mix of students, such as graduates of sport and health sciences, medical sciences, physiotherapy, medicine and other health care professions.

Career opportunities:

This Sport and Exercise Medicine program at The University of Exeteris designed to provide you with a more in-depth level of understanding and a sound basis in research and analytical skills in relation to sport and exercise medicine. It also develops a sound understanding of the disciplines that constitute the sports and exercise science support services to sports and health organisations.

Employers will be able to recognise the advanced knowledge and in-depth understanding and skills within the specialised area of sport and exercise medicine, which has professional and technical demands, as well as academic. For example, the ability to analyse factors related to injury that have been developed by researchers, and to understand how these factors relate to the applied and clinical setting. Also, a flexible approach to work such that an understanding of how sports and exercise medicine can be applied via an inter-disciplinary approach, to advance clinical skills in sports medicine, is promoted.

Courses include:

• Health Challenges in Sport and Exercise Medicine

• Orthopaedic Challenges in Sport and Exercise Medicine

• Preparation, Pitch, Rehabilitation

• Research Methods and Analytical Procedures

• Research Design

• Systematic Reviews for Policy and Practice