Program Overview

Clinical Education MA/ PGDip/ PGCert

Key information

Delivery mode: In person Study mode: Part time Duration: PG Cert one year, PG Dip two-three years, MA three-four years Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent): UK 180/ECTS 90 Application status: Open Start date: September 2025

Course essentials

This programme provides participants, who have clinical professional experience, with the opportunity to pursue postgraduate education relevant to their professional interests and requirements. The programme aims to provide a distinctive element by combining work-based opportunities with theoretical underpinning, thus enabling participants to develop their own practice as clinical educators. Participants need to have regular teaching responsibilities as part of their role, because of course activities and also because of the programme’s focus on the connection between theory and practice in clinical education.

Entry requirements

UK applicants

• Standard requirements: A minimum 2:2 undergraduate Bachelor’s (honours) degree
• Programme-Specific Requirements:
  • Participants must be working in health care professions with an educational or teaching component to their role.
  • A minimum three years of professional experience, or completion of The Foundation Training Programme.

International applicants

• Equivalent International qualifications: Select a country to view equivalent qualifications
• English language requirements: English language band B

Teaching & structure

Teaching methods - what to expect

• Seminars
• Workshops
• Self-Study

Programme modules are required face-to-face postgraduate seminar and workshop sessions, which require advance reading and preparation, as well as self-study outside the seminar sessions.

Assessment

• Coursework
• Essays

Assessment is by coursework; no examinations are conducted on this programme. Written assignments include academic essays; compilation of and reflection on evidence of teaching; successful completion of teaching observations.

Structure

• Required modules
• Optional modules

Courses are divided into modules, and students on this course take modules totalling 60 credits for the PG Cert, 120 credits for the PG Dip or 180 credits for the MA.

Careers

Employability

Participants on the programme continue to work in various roles in health professions education.

Fees & Funding

Tuition Fees

• UK: Part time: £4,500 (PG Cert 2025/26); £4,500 (PG Dip 2025/26); £4,500 (MA 2025/26)
• International: Part time: £11,933 (PG Cert 2025/26); £11,933 (PG Dip 2025/26); £11,933 (MA 2025/26)

Additional Costs

• Books if you choose to buy your own copies
• Library fees and fines
• Personal photocopies
• Printing course handouts
• Society membership fees
• Stationery
• Travel costs for travel around London, between campuses and for project placements
• Graduation costs

Funding

To find out more about bursaries, scholarships, grants, tuition fees, living expenses, student loans, and other financial help available at King's please visit the Fees and Funding section.