StudyQA — Master: International Health

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One of the key features of this programme is the opportunity to participate in a one-week fieldtrip to Geneva, Switzerland. This includes workshops and meetings with World Health Organization staff, a visit to the United Nations and the Red Cross offices and various NGOs. The visit takes place in the University Easter vacation.
Benefits of the programme:
Provides an international learning environment, with staff and students drawn from many countries and a variety of professional backgrounds enabling students to learn from collective professional and cultural experiences;
Develops students' ability to think analytically, develops capacity for independent learning and encourages a reflective approach to learning;
Offers a flexibile programme of study with optional module choices and dissertation opportunities which enable students to pursue a range of interests in a learning environment where teaching reflects staff and student research interests and builds upon the core skills and knowledge acquired early in the programme;
Provides an understanding of the role and functions of hospitals in the healthcare context and the management, planning and policy issues faced by hospital managers in developing healthcare systems;
Provides a compulsory hospital experience attachment which ensures that operational problems and situations are experienced in a context that demonstrates how these are addressed in practice;
Offers specific research methods training to support with the dissertation.

The programme will:
* Provide an international learning environment, with staff and students drawn from many countries, within which students drawn from a variety of professional backgrounds around the world benefit and learn from their collective professional and cultural experiences
* Offer opportunities to develop the ability to think analytically; a capacity for independent learning; the capability to complete a challenging, extended piece of independent study and an awareness of the importance of and opportunities for continuing professional development
* Offer flexibility, enabling students to attain high levels of professional skill whilst also pursuing individual study interests in a learning environment where research informs teaching with optional module choices and dissertation opportunities reflect shared staff and student research interests.

And also:
* Introduce the essential learning skills for postgraduate level study within a structured framework with particular emphasis on the challenges facing those returning to study
* Present health and health systems in an international policy context and provide a clear appreciation of the conceptual framework within which public health policy and management is located
* Teach the essential skills required to improve existing and build new health services, programmes and related management systems to improve the public health of the communities amongst whom the participants work with emphasis on epidemiology and statistics and evidence-based public health interventions
* Build upon the core skills and knowledge acquired early in the programme by choosing areas of study from the list of optional modules in specialist fields of public health, planning and management
* Introduce the concept of the Learning Portfolio which strongly encourages a reflective approach to learning and can form the basis of career-long independent learning
* Develop a capacity for independent learning and an awareness of the importance of continued professional development
* Offer the opportunity to plan, initiate, execute and complete a substantial piece of independent research, in the form of the dissertation, within a supportive framework which provides specific research training and preparation for the dissertation.

Candidates will either be medical graduates or health professionals with a good honours degree, or equivalent, in a relevant subject. They will normally have at least two years of international public health experience. Extensive experience in relevant public health work may exceptionally constitute an alternative basis for admission.English language requirementsIf English is not your first language, you will need a recognised English Language qualification to be admitted onto any of the University's degree programmes. Acceptable minimum qualifications include:IELTS (International English Language Testing System) an overall band of 6.5 with no less than 6.0 in each component skillTOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) of 92 with no less than 21 in listening, 21 in reading, 23 in speaking and 22 in writing 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)