Precision Musculoskeletal Sciences

Queen Mary University of London
Postgraduate MSc Full-time 1 Year MedicineBiology

About this course

This programme is for clinicians, senior nurses and allied health professionals working in musculoskeletal fields. It will provide you with a thorough grounding in the discipline together with the tools to maintain your knowledge base through a course of advanced, specialist instruction.

You will be taught by leading experts from the Centre for Experimental Medicine and Rheumatology (EMR), which has been awarded Centre of Excellence status by the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) for its outstanding contributions to rheumatology and improving patient care.

The programme will:

  • Help you acquire the theoretical understanding and skills to advance and promote knowledge in the specialty, as well as develop your leadership skills

  • Promote your understanding of how advanced technologies and innovative clinical trials represent the next step towards tailoring diagnostic and therapeutic strategies to individual subsets of patients

  • Encourage you to think beyond the available modalities and synthesise information, hypotheses, and approaches to fill in the gap of unmet needs in musculoskeletal sciences

  • Choose from MSc, Postgraduate Diploma or Certificate
  • Study Options

    This course is available in 5 study options:

    Full-time Shown above

    Duration: 1 Year

    Qualification: MSc

    Location: Islington

    Part-time

    Duration: 2 Years

    Qualification: MSc

    Location: Islington

    Full-time Shown above

    Duration: 6 Months

    Qualification: PgCert

    Location: Islington

    Full-time Shown above

    Duration: 9 Months

    Qualification: PgDip

    Location: Islington

    Part-time

    Duration: 21 Months

    Qualification: PgDip

    Location: Islington

    Career Prospects

    Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

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    2119 Natural and social science professionals
    2111 Chemical scientists
    3111 Laboratory technicians
    2113 Biochemists and biomedical scientists
    3219 Health associate professionals

    Course Details

    Qualification
    MSc
    Study Mode
    Full-time
    Duration
    1 Year
    Start Date
    2025
    Academic Year
    2025
    Campus / Location
    Islington
    Scheme
    Postgraduate
    Subjects
    Medicine, Biology