MSc Paediatrics and Child Health: Community Child Health

Medically qualified applicants should have post-qualification experience in paediatrics or child health. Non-medically qualified applicants should have an upper second-class UK bachelor's degree or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard, and experience of working in hospitals, community child health or public health services for children and families. Medically qualified applicants should have post-qualification experience in paediatrics or child health. Non-medically qualified applicants should have an upper second-class UK bachelor's degree or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard, and experience of working in hospitals, community child health or public health services for children and families.

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This Master’s degree will help you understand the core principles of evidence-based paediatrics and child health. You will learn about current and future developments in paediatric medicine and child health and gain the skills necessary to critically appraise practice and policy, and carry out independent Master's-level research. You will also have the academic and clinical skills you need to go into community practice. Medical graduates based in the UK can continue in their career pathway in community paediatrics. Many of our graduates have gone onto begin or complete their specialist paediatric training, into careers as consultants in paediatrics or senior professionals in other related fields including with the NHS, government health departments, ministries of health and NGOs all over the world.* * Graduate Outcomes survey carried out by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), looking at the destinations of UK and EU graduates in the cohorts 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23.

Compulsory modules

• Epidemiology for Child Health
• Research Project Report
• Evidence-based Child Health
• Applied Statistics for Health Research I
• International Child Mental Health
• Immunisation and Communicable Diseases
• Safeguarding and Children in Society
• Clinical Genomics Genetic and Rare Diseases
• Child Public Health
• Nutrition, Growth and Physical Activity
• Leadership and Professional Development
• Specialist Paediatrics I
• Specialist Paediatrics II
• Molecular Biology of Normal Development and Birth Defects
• Molecular and Clinical Aspects of Childhood Cancers
• Adolescent Health Medicine
• Paediatric Critical Care (General)
• Stabilisation and Transport of the Critically Ill Child
• Cardiac Critical Care
• Ethics and Law for Paediatrics and Child Health
• Neonatal Intensive Care
• Conflict, Humanitarianism and Health
• Key Principles of Health Economics
• Health Management: Planning and Programme Design
• Collecting and Using Data: Essentials of Quantitative Survey Research
• Research in Action: the Qualitative Approach
• Health Systems in a Global Context
• Regression Modelling
• Practising Qualitative Research in Child and Adolescent Health

Optional modules

• International Child Mental Health
• Immunisation and Communicable Diseases
• Safeguarding and Children in Society
• Clinical Genomics Genetic and Rare Diseases
• Child Public Health
• Nutrition, Growth and Physical Activity
• Leadership and Professional Development
• Specialist Paediatrics I
• Specialist Paediatrics II
• Molecular Biology of Normal Development and Birth Defects
• Molecular and Clinical Aspects of Childhood Cancers
• Adolescent Health Medicine
• Paediatric Critical Care (General)
• Stabilisation and Transport of the Critically Ill Child
• Cardiac Critical Care
• Ethics and Law for Paediatrics and Child Health
• Neonatal Intensive Care
• Conflict, Humanitarianism and Health
• Key Principles of Health Economics
• Health Management: Planning and Programme Design
• Collecting and Using Data: Essentials of Quantitative Survey Research
• Research in Action: the Qualitative Approach
• Health Systems in a Global Context
• Regression Modelling
• Practising Qualitative Research in Child and Adolescent Health
• reasonable adjustments
• Student Support and Wellbeing Services
• UCL Student Support and Wellbeing Services
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• UCL Student Support and Wellbeing Services.