Program Overview

MSc Contemporary Physiotherapy Practice

The MSc Contemporary Physiotherapy Practice at Lincoln aims to enhance currently qualified Physiotherapist's knowledge and skills through various teaching and learning methods to equip students for current clinical practice. This includes exploring topics such as clinical reasoning and decision making, pathoanatomic and physiology, interventions, research methodology and project management applicable to physiotherapy practice.

Course Overview

Physiotherapy is a scientific and evidence-based health profession that takes a 'whole person' approach to improving and maintaining wellbeing. Physiotherapists help people affected by injury, illness, or disability, using a range of interventions such as advice, education, exercise, and manual therapy and electrophysical agents.

Key Information

• Campus: Brayford Pool
• Start Date: September 2026
• Typical Offer: See More
• Duration: 18 months

Modules

The programme includes the following modules:

• Master's Level
  • Dissertation
  • Leadership in Physiotherapy
  • Musculoskeletal Clinical Reasoning
  • Musculoskeletal Interventions
  • Person Centred Practice
  • Research Methods

Module Overview

Each module has a specific focus:

• Dissertation: Involves a research project, with the opportunity to findings through various methods, including journal publication, a conference presentation, or poster production and delivery.
• Leadership in Physiotherapy: Develops students' knowledge and understanding of leadership in the context of contemporary clinical practice, including legal, ethical, and professional issues.
• Musculoskeletal Clinical Reasoning: Develops students' knowledge and skills in assessing patients in a comprehensive and inclusive manner, focusing on clinical reasoning and decision-making theory and application.
• Musculoskeletal Interventions: Explores a range of interventions used within the physiotherapy profession to treat, educate, support, and enable patients.
• Person Centred Practice: Promotes the development of clinically applied knowledge in health and social science relevant to person-centred practice, applying psychological and sociological sciences in the physiotherapy context.
• Research Methods: Designed as an introduction to research for healthcare professionals, developing students' skills and knowledge in engaging in research activity and adhering to good research practice guidance.

Entry Requirements

• Applicants should hold a degree in physiotherapy at 2:2 classification or above or a qualification that allows them to register to practice as Physiotherapist/physical therapist in their home country.
• Applicants must also be registered or eligible to register as a physiotherapist/physical therapist with the relevant professional body or association in their home country.
• International Applicants: Require IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in each element for students whose first language is not English.

Course Fees

• 2026/27 Entry:
  • Home: £10,700
  • Home (including Alumni Scholarship 20% reduction): £8,560
  • International: £18,800
  • International (including International Alumni Scholarship reduction): £16,800
• Part-time:
  • Home: £59 per credit point
  • International: £104 per credit point

Funding Your Study

• Postgraduate Master's Loan: May help with course fees and living costs.
• Scholarships: Available in addition to those shown above.

Career Development

Postgraduate study is an investment in yourself and your future, helping you to further or completely change your career, develop your knowledge, enhance your salary, or even prepare you to start your own business.