Chronic Disease Management

St Mary's University, Twickenham
Postgraduate PgCert Full-time 1 Year MedicineHealthCounselling, psychotherapy, and occupational therapy

About this course

Our Master's degree in Chronic Disease Management is designed to develop your skills and the expertise needed to promote and support behaviour change.

Why study Chronic Disease Management?

Chronic disease in our society is on the increase, and although there is strong evidence that lifestyle adjustment can prevent and manage chronic disease, many face complex and challenging barriers to achieving lifestyle behaviour change. Innovative methods and highly trained individuals are needed to successfully tackle the problem from all sides.

There's a need in a range of health settings - including clinical, healthcare, social care and public health departments - for highly skilled, autonomous and analytical employees that specialise in the prevention, assessment and management of chronic diseases. Such employers report that it is currently challenging to find candidates with the experience and skillset needed. This degree will produce highly skilled graduates to address this gap.

This skill-enriching Master’s programme provides you with the opportunity to enhance skills, knowledge and understanding of facilitating, managing and supporting behaviour change at individual, group and population levels. The degree also aims to expand your research expertise.

Chronic Disease Management MSc is ideal if you're looking to progress your current career and provides the vital skills and experience necessary to embark on a career working to tackle chronic disease.

Study Options

This course is available in 3 study options:

Full-time Shown above

Duration: 1 Year

Qualification: PgCert

Location: Richmond upon Thames

Full-time Shown above

Duration: 1 Year

Qualification: PgDip

Location: Richmond upon Thames

Full-time Shown above

Duration: 1 Year

Qualification: MSc

Location: Richmond upon Thames

Career Prospects

Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

3219 Health associate professionals
2483 Environmental health professionals
3582 Health and safety managers and officers
3214 Complementary health associate professionals
2259 Other health professionals
3560 Public services associate professionals

Course Details

Qualification
Postgraduate Certificate - PgCert
Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
1 Year
Start Date
2025
Academic Year
2025
Campus / Location
Richmond upon Thames
Scheme
Postgraduate
Subjects
Medicine, Health, Counselling, psychotherapy, and occupational therapy