Public Health Practice

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This programme is for you if you wish to progress your academic and professional development beyond the undergraduate level. This level of education is increasingly required by health professionals seeking senior roles.

This is a flexible programme that allows you to choose modules that develop your professional areas of interest. You either take the programme in conjunction with the NMC Specialist Community Public Health Nurse qualification or as an academic award. This gives a rich mixture of professional backgrounds and interests, and the increasing number of international students adds a further dimension. You also study with students from other MSc programmes, such as Advanced Practice, which also gives a rich and varied learning group.

The programme draws on expertise within the University and from practice to enable you to apply the theory to the practice of public health. It also allows you to network with public health practitioners. The MSc/SCPHN students leave the programme with their academic award and their professional qualification. To date, students from this programme have an excellent record in gaining employment in their chosen field.

The programme is not suitable for medical practitioners wishing to develop their career in public health as it will not allow them to qualify as a public health consultant.

Module Titles
Compulsory modules include:

* Leading Empowered Partnerships
* Assessment in Public Health Practice
* Epidemiology and Health Protection

Optional modules include:

* Skills for the Children's Workforce
* Nutrition
* Sexual Health

For a full list of modules, please see the Public Health Practice webpages.

MSc/PGDip Public Health Practice: students registering for the Postgraduate Diploma will normally hold a previously accumulated credit volume of 360 level three credits of which at least 120 will be at level 3.MSc/PGDip Public Health Practice with SCPHN: students will normally hold a previously accumulated credit volume of 360 level three credits of which at least 120 will be at level 3 and be named on Part One or Part Two of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Register (NMC 2006a).Students applying for the Postgraduate Diploma Public Health Practice/MSc Public Health Practice with SCPHN endorsement will also need to secure sponsorship from a Primary Care Trust.If your first language is not English, we will require some evidence of your proficiency in the English language. Applicants must be able to demonstrate an ability to understand and express themselves in both written and spoken English. You may be required to take an approved proficiency test examination and/or attend a course of English language study before admission.The following qualifications/tests are suitable as evidence that you meet our minimum level of competence: * Cambridge Proficiency Examination (Grade C) * GCSE/GCE Ordinary Level in English (Grade C) * International English Language Testing System (IELTS) (Band 6) * NEAB Test in English * Test in English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) (score of 550 on the paper-based test or 213 on the computer-based test) * AEB Test in English for Educational Purposes (Grade III) English Language Requirements CAE score: (read more) Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) is part of the Cambridge English suite and is targeted at a high level (IETLS 6.5-8.0). It is an international English language exam set at the right level for academic and professional success. Developed by Cambridge English Language Assessment - part of the University of Cambridge - it helps you stand out from the crowd as a high achiever. 60 (Grade C)