FOOTBALL MEDICINE IN ASSOCIATION WITH FIFA MSC

Programme overview

Why choose this programme?

Developed in partnership with FIFA, this specialist master's course equips qualified doctors with the skills to conduct clinical practice in football settings.

This highly flexible academic and clinical master's degree develops your sport and exercise medicine expertise, with a focus on football.

Through a combination of Bath’s clinical expertise and FIFA’s industry insights, you’ll learn advanced football medicine techniques. This will help to enhance your sport-specific or portfolio medical career.

During your studies, you’ll gain the skills needed to improve the preparation, development, and medical management of recreational or elite players and deepen your clinical knowledge of musculoskeletal injuries, to allow you to better assess, treat, and advise the patients in your practice.

You’ll also develop your:

- clinical knowledge of the aftercare of injuries and rehabilitation
- ability to provide safe and effective pitch-side emergency care
- expertise in injury prevention in football
- awareness of the signs of mental health issues in sport and the ability to provide confidential support
- understanding of the ethical and medicolegal issues of working in football

This course will also provide you with a recognised qualification for indemnity insurance - many team doctor jobs will require this type of qualification.
Objetivos

Tendrás la posibilidad de optar a cualquiera de salidas laborales de ambas profesiones, y con el valor añadido de poder optar a puestos de responsabilidad como: Director de televisión, director de canal, director de productoras, director de cine, Cualquier puesto de responsabilidad en el ámbito de la comunicación y del mundo empresarial.
You’ll learn from experts in sports medicine and sports physiotherapy, some of whom have extensive football-specific experience, as well as staff in our wider Department for Health community.

Their passion, knowledge and industry expertise shape their teaching to enhance your learning experience. They all have vast levels of industry experience and have worked with a range of professional athletes across different sports.

Some have worked at high-profile sporting events, including the:

- Olympic Games
- Commonwealth Games
- Paralympic World Cup 
- World University Games