Child Health

Developed to respond to changes in continuing professional development and child health service provision, these postgraduate level courses provide advanced, multidisciplinary training in child health for experienced child health practitioners from the United Kingdom and overseas.

Entry Criteria

Applicants should preferably be from a medical or other health care professional background, with a minimum of 3 years post graduate professional experience. Consideration will be given to other applicants who can demonstrate relevant experience within a Child Health setting, and an ability to study at Masters level.

Any of the PGA modules can be taken individually, either as an assessed qualification or on a non-assessed basis, to support continuing professional development. Assessed programmes usually carry Masters level credits which can be built up towards a postgraduate qualification. The following courses are available:

Taught Masters Programmes

WMS offers three Masters programmes which can be studied over a period of 2–8 years part time or 1 year full time.

Postgraduate Awards (PGAs)

Most modules in our Masters courses can be taken as individual Postgraduate Awards (PGAs) or non-accredited short courses to support continuing professional development. The following are available.

Short Courses

Places are also available on the following highly regarded short course:

 

Information on the following Masters course is available for current students (who began their course before July 2005).

Information on the following Masters course is available for current students (who began their course before July 2008)

 Child Health

How to apply


Mon 21 May '12
21/05 - 25/05: International Health Policy
Tue 19 Jun '12
19/06 - 20/06: Perinatal and Infant Mental Health
Wed 27 Jun '12
27/06 - 29/06: Unexpected Childhood Deaths