Prehospital Medicine

This part-time MSc in Prehospital Medicine is aimed at those who want to make a difference within their profession as paramedics, nurses, and doctors. Focussing on both the tried and tested and the novel, this popular course combines concepts and materials to form the technical and non-technical basis for praxis.

- Learn from and work closely with London Air Ambulance and the Institute of Prehospital Care - world leaders in the field of prehospital medicine

- Study part-time alongside professional commitments

- Apply what you've learned directly to professional work

- Attend face-to-face learning with an expert faculty, working closely together with other students from a diverse set of professional backgrounds

What you'll study

Prehospital medicine is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to the treatment of injury and illness outside a hospital, and in particular, working to manage the time-critical reversible aspects of physiological processes activated when the human body suffers significant clinical insult.

This innovative programme follows the hugely successful iBSc in Prehospital Medicine delivered at Queen Mary University of London's Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, an internationally renowned institution. The MSc brings together key areas of theory and practice necessary for advanced practitioners. You’ll combine concepts, materials and practice to form the technical and non-technical basis for praxis.

You’ll learn key skills and specific practitioner attributes including high quality interprofessional working, incident and scene management and human factors. Modules are synergistic and together form a basis for an exciting masters programme. For example, a focus on human factors, simulation and performance is joined with modules exploring cutting-edge science, so that you receive a holistic and realistic medical education.

The programme is run in partnership with the Institute of Prehospital Care (IoPHC) at London’s Air Ambulance, a world leader in the field of pre-hospital medicine. Through its research, innovation and education activities, the Institute has influenced clinical guidelines, governance standards, and the practice of air ambulances in the UK, Europe and Australia.