Bsc (hons) Healthcare Science (physiological Sciences) in Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Bsc (hons) Healthcare Science (physiological Sciences) in Manchester Metropolitan University

Overview

Accredited by the National School of Healthcare Science and the Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists, this Healthcare Science degree will give you everything you need to be a professional in the physiological sciences. Once you’ve finished, you’ll be qualified to register as a clinical healthcare scientist in the physiological sciences.

You’ll study units that lay the groundwork in biochemistry and the physiological systems as well as studying an academic core of topics in your chosen specialism of cardiac physiology, neurophysiology or respiratory and sleep physiology. From there, you’ll study subjects specific to your chosen specialism. Whichever route is right for you, you’ll see that practice makes perfect – as you’ll do work-based clinical placements, completing a total of 50 weeks in all.

You’ll build the knowledge, clinical training and skills you’ll require as you prepare to team up with other health professionals in the important work of diagnosing and treating disease.

If you’re shortlisted for entry onto this programme, you must attend for interview in person as part of the selection process. You’ll have to pass a medical examination and be vaccinated to work in medical fields. You’ll also need a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service certificate, which is completed through the University early in the course. This degree is not available to overseas applicants.

Features and Benefits

• Includes 50 weeks of work-based clinical placements – the Department will find appropriate placements for you.

• This degree has been developed according to the latest guidance from the Department of Health and all routes are accredited by the Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists, with specialist routes accredited by the National School of Healthcare Science.

• When you finish, you’ll be professionally qualified to register as a clinical physiologist working in the NHS or private sector.

• Throughout, you’ll be guided by approachable and supportive academic tutors, as well as benefiting from the professional expertise of experienced clinical staff.

• Our excellent facilities include specialist equipment for research in genetics, cell biology, nutrition, orthopaedics, gerontology, exercise science and the advanced, practical study of physiology. We also have a clinical skills laboratory and a point-of-care testing suite.

• Our £3m Research Biomedicine building houses one of the few magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners to be found outside a hospital setting.

Career prospects

Study Healthcare Science with us and you’ll emerge as an independent thinker who can apply critical analysis to real-world problems – with knowledge and laboratory skills in demand by healthcare organisations. Many of our graduates work in the NHS as healthcare scientists in cardiology, respiratory and sleep or neurophysiology, according to their specialist area. For those who wish to continue their studies, we offer a range of postgraduate programmes across the breadth of healthcare sciences.

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