Прикладное Упражнение для Здоровья Магистр наук

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Applied Exercise for Health PgCert/PgDip/MSc

Suitable for health professionals with an interest in exercise and the potential of physical activity, this course incorporates the exploration of physical activity in various critical settings within the public health arena (eg obesity, sedentary lifestyles and diabetes). This is a flexible programme structured to provide core and option modules tailored to the individual student profile.

What will you study?

In parallel to and offering shared learning with the MSc Rehabilitation, this course offers the opportunity to enhance the skills of critical enquiry and gain an appreciation of the underlying theory, research and policy guiding current health practice. There is a strong emphasis on exercise physiology, the role of exercise through the lifespan, and psychology for exercise to understand issues critical to adherence and behaviour change.

Highlights

• Shared campus with one of the largest teaching hospitals in the UK.
• Before starting the course, you can discuss your work and personal and professional aspirations to select appropriate modules and create an individual programme plan.
• You will have the chance to meet other postgraduate students with whom you will share the core modules.
• You can take individual modules as free-standing short courses without committing to the full MSc.
• The course can be taken full-time over one calendar year (Thursdays and Fridays) or part-time over two years (attending for one day). More flexible routes can be discussed with the course director within a five year period.

Degree structure

Core modules

• Advanced exercise prescription.
• Critical thinking in practice.
• Data analysis.
• Exercise through the lifespan.
• Research methods.
• Research project.

Optional modules

• Cardiac rehabilitation.
• Exercise intervention for obesity and diabetes.
• Life after stroke.
• Managing fatigue: implications for exercise.
• Pain management.
• Professional development in rehabilitation.
• Psychology for exercise.
• Pulmonary rehabilitation.
• Quality and innovation in rehabilitation.
• Rehabilitation.
• Self-management in long-term and neurological conditions.
• Work-based learning.

St George’s Hospital Medical School was established in 1733 and initially based at Hyde Park Corner, before moving to our Tooting site in 1980. It was the second institution in England to provide formal training courses for doctors. Find out more about our history here. St George’s alumni include pioneers in medicine, John Hunter, Edward Jenner, Henry Gray and Patrick Steptoe.

St George’s has a dynamic research culture, with teams working to improve the health of people of all ages, from children to the elderly, in populations locally and globally. We are the only UK university based in a hospital (St George’s Hospital). This is also where Channel 4 television series 24 hours in A&E is filmed). St George’s is the only university in the UK to specialise in healthcare and medicine.