Program Overview

Advanced Clinical Practice MSc, PG Dip

Key Information

Delivery mode: Classroom & Online Study mode: Part time Duration: MSc: three years (max of six years), PG Dip: two years (max of four years) Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent): UK 180/ECTS 90 Application status: Open Start dates: January 2025, September 2025

Course Essentials

This course is suitable for applicants from any registered healthcare discipline, such as nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, pharmacists, paramedics, and other allied healthcare professionals currently employed in clinical practice. Applicants are normally expected to be:

• Registered with a professional regulatory body, such as the NMC, HCPC, GPhC or equivalent.
• Experienced practitioners for at least 2 years post-qualification
• Currently employed in a role that will enable them to develop their professional practice to an advanced level.
• Be supported in their workplace with appropriate supervision for developing advanced level practice for the duration of the programme.

Base Campuses

• Waterloo Campus: Home of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery and facilities for other faculties
• Guy’s Campus: The Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, and the Institute of Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience are based at the riverside Guy's Campus, next to the Shard.
• St Thomas’ Campus: Located near Waterloo Campus and home of continuing medical and dental teaching, as well as a museum dedicated to Florence Nightingale.
• Strand Campus: Located on the north bank of the River Thames, the Strand Campus houses King's College London's arts and sciences faculties.
• Denmark Hill Campus: Home to the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience.

Course Accreditation

Health Education England

Awarding Institutions

King's College London and Affiliates

Regulating Bodies

King's is regulated by the Office for Students

Entry Requirements

UK Applicants

• Standard requirements: A minimum 2:1 undergraduate Bachelor’s (honours) degree
• Programme-Specific Requirements:
  • Registration with a professional regulatory body, such as the NMC, HCPC, GPhC or equivalent.
  • A minimum of at least 2 years of post-qualification experience.
  • Current employment in a role that will enable you to develop your professional practice to an advanced level.
  • Support in your workplace with appropriate supervision for developing advanced level practice for the duration of the programme.

International Applicants

• Equivalent International qualifications: Select a country from the list provided
• English language requirements: English language band D

Teaching & Structure

Teaching Methods

You will spend approximately 25% of your time (approximately 150 hours per year) in scheduled learning and teaching activities, which comprise a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, project supervision, and workshops. You will also spend approximately 75% of your time (approximately 450 hours per year) undertaking independent study, such as preparing for scheduled sessions, follow-up work, wider reading, and completion of assessment tasks or revision.

Assessment

Your performance will be assessed through a combination of coursework and examinations, including written assignments, presentations, and OSCEs (objective structured clinical examination) as well as practice-based assessments. MSc students are also required to complete a dissertation on a practice-based quality improvement project.

Structure

• Required modules:
  • Quality Improvement Dissertation (60 credits)
  • Advanced Assessment Skills for Non-Medical Practitioners (30 credits)
  • Developing as an Advanced Practitioner, Year 1 (0 credits)
  • Developing as an Advanced Practitioner, Year 2 (0 credits)
  • Year 3 (MSc students only): Developing as an Advanced Practitioner, Year 3 (0 credits)
• Optional modules:
  • Nurse or Midwife Independent and Supplementary Prescribing (60 credits)
  • Applied Pathophysiology in Advanced Practice (15 credits)
  • Cardiac Care: Symptoms and Management of Heart Failure (15 credits)
  • Principles for Managing Long-Term Conditions (30 credits)
  • Diabetes: Principles of Care and Management (30 credits)
  • Clinical Leadership (30 credits)

Careers

This programme prepares you to work as an Advanced Practitioner at an advanced level of practice within your profession.

Fees & Funding

Tuition Fees

• UK: Part time: £5,650 per year (PGCert, 1 year, PG Dip 2 years, MSc 3 years)
• International: Part time: £5,650 per year (PG Cert 1 year, PG Dip 2 years, MSc 3 years)

Deposit

• September entry:
  • If you receive an offer before March, your acceptance deadline is 20 March.
  • If you receive an offer between 1 March and 15 May, your acceptance deadline is one month from the offer date.
  • If you receive an offer between 16 May and 10 July, your acceptance deadline is two weeks from the offer date.
  • If you receive an offer between 11 July and 10 August, your acceptance deadline is one week from the offer date.
• January entry:
  • If you receive an offer before June, your acceptance deadline is 30 June.
  • If you receive an offer between 1 June and 30 August, your acceptance deadline is one month of receiving the offer.
  • If you receive an offer between 1 September and 31 October, your acceptance deadline is two weeks of receiving the offer.
  • If you receive an offer between 1 November and 30 November, your acceptance deadline is one week from the offer date.
  • If you receive an offer from 1 December, your acceptance deadline is three days from the offer date.

Additional Costs

• Books if you choose to buy your own copies
• Clothing for optional course-related events and competitions
• Library fees and fines
• Personal photocopies
• Binding costs
• Printing course handouts
• Society membership fees
• Stationery
• Travel costs for travel around London and between campuses
• 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.