Course details

Course details

As a student of the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, you will benefit from excellent facilities for teaching and learning at both Kingston University and St George’s. 50 per cent of the course will be undertaken in NHS trusts.

Structure

The course is modular. The first term involves shared learning with student groups across the healthcare sciences, including medicine, biomedical science, physiotherapy and nursing. This Inter-professional Foundation Programme (IFP) is based at St George’s, and you will benefit from other multi-professional modules throughout the course. Years two and three comprise a combination of academic modules and clinical practice placements. The majority of the academic component is delivered at Kingston University, and focuses on a discipline-specific programme that covers basic biological, physical, sociological and psychological sciences and radiographic practice.

There are strong links with specialist clinicians who contribute to the academic course. You will follow a rigorous education programme in hospitals, where you will acquire broad experience in the diagnosis and assessment of patients who present a variety of problems, disorders and injuries. Substantial emphasis will be placed on clinical reasoning and the evaluation of practice.