Clinical Exercise Physiology MSc

Program Overview

MSc Clinical Exercise Physiology

Overview

This programme develops the required knowledge and skills to be eligible for registration as a Clinical Exercise Physiologist (CEP). The NHS and other health care providers are facing unprecedented demand for services while the experience of Covid highlighted and exacerbated issues related to an underlying physical inactivity epidemic. CEPs are University MSc qualified health professionals trained to screen, assess and apply clinical and scientific reasoning to ensure safety and appropriateness of exercise-based interventions that can support long term behaviour change; as professionals they are expected to advance their practice through continuing education, competency development and professional experience.

Our MSc programme helps graduates to meet the Academy for Healthcare Sciences (AHCS) Standards of Proficiency which are in line with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) Standards of Proficiency.

Mode of Study:

• Full-time (available as Part-time)

Duration:

• 1 years

Start date:

• Sep

Course details

This MSc course will prepare you for a career as a CEP, so that you can:

• specialise in the prescription and delivery of evidence-based exercise interventions to optimise the prevention, treatment, and long-term management of acute, sub-acute, chronic and complex conditions.
• work in a range of primary, secondary, and tertiary care settings as part of a multidisciplinary team of health care and rehabilitation providers
• optimise physical function and health and promote long-term wellness through lifestyle modification and behaviour change across the lifespan.

Accreditation (Academy for Healthcare Sciences (AHCS) accreditation pending)

Our MSc programme delivers the Clinical Exercise Physiology-UK (CEP-UK) curriculum framework. This national curriculum framework has been developed for all UK MSc Clinical Exercise Physiology degrees to ensure the required knowledge and skills and forms part of the AHCS MSc Clinical Exercise Physiology degree accreditation.

Modules

• Behaviour Change & Communication (SES11133)
• Clinical Exercise Physiology Work Based Learning (FULL TIME) (SES11139)
• Clinical Skills I (SES11134)
• Clinical Skills II (SES11136)
• Exercise Interventions: Design, Delivery and Implementation (SES11137)
• Exercise Physiology (SES11135)
• Pathophysiology and Clinical Management (SES11138)

Entry requirements

• Bachelor (Honours) degree at 2:2 or above, or equivalent experience, in a sport and exercise science or physical activity & health or any human health related science degree (e.g. Biomedical Science, Human Physiology, or allied health professional degree including Physiotherapy and Nursing).
• Successful applicants to the MSc Clinical Exercise Physiology programme will be required to complete a placement module, this is dependent upon a satisfactory Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme (PVG) Check at the module preparation stage.
• Successful applicants, going on clinical placements, will be required to undergo an Occupational Health check, including required immunisations for a variety of conditions.

English language

• If your first language isn't English, you'll normally need to undertake an approved English language test.
• International applicants MSc CEP programme who are non-native English speakers, will need the following IELTS scores:
  • 6.5, with no element below, 6.5 for reading and writing, and 6.0 for speaking and listening.

Fees & funding

• Tuition fees for 2024/25:
  • Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Republic of Ireland: £8,540
  • Overseas and EU: £20,395
• Tuition fees are subject to an annual review and may increase from one year to the next.

Careers

• By studying Clinical Exercise Physiology at Edinburgh Napier University, you will gain the skills and knowledge to be able to work as part of a healthcare team across multiple healthcare settings, such as within a hospital or a community as a CEP.
• As a CEP, you will help a range of people from apparently healthy individuals to those with chronic and complex conditions along the care pathway from primary prevention, through acute management, to rehabilitation and maintenance.
• The role of CEP is to work in a range of primary, secondary and tertiary care settings as part of a multidisciplinary team of health care and rehabilitation providers from hospital to community.