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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
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To apply for this course, you should have a Bachelor of Medicine or Bachelor of Surgery. You should be a qualified medical doctor with full unrestricted registration with the General Medical Council or your country's relevant body.
You should also have a minimum of one year's work experience as a qualified and registered doctor before enrolment. Please provide a copy of your valid medical licence and details of how to confirm your medical registration online (if applicable).
Please ensure that you submit a personal statement of 250-500 words that outlines your qualifications and experience, your interest in the programme, and how you wish to use the degree after completion. As this is a practice-based course, please include details of your access to patients with sporting injuries and/or conditions where exercise could be prescribed as medicine.
English language requirements
- IELTS: 6.5 overall with no less than 6.0 in all components
- The Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic): 62 with no less than 59 in any element
- TOEFL IBT: 90 overall with a minimum 21 in all 4 components
You will need to get your English language qualification within 24 months prior to starting your course.
Apply for partial scholarships
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
Year 1
Semester 1
Compulsory units
- Football medicine in practice I
- Foundations of biomechanics and physiology for clinicians
- The sport and exercise doctor
Semester 2
Compulsory units
- Exercise behaviour change for population health
- Football medicine in practice I
Year 2
Semester 1
Compulsory units
- Football medicine in practice II
- From injury to rehabilitation for sport and exercise
Semester 2
Compulsory units
- Applied football medicine
- Football medicine in practice II
- Psychology of sports medicine
Year 3
Semester 1
Compulsory units
- Research project
Semester 2
Compulsory units
- Research project
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