Advance your career in the rewarding field of sport and exercise medicine.
- How can you support people to maximise elite performance?
- How can we support patients in recovering from surgery or a clinical event such as a stroke?
- How can you develop the skills that underpin evidence-based sport and exercise medicine?
With a MSc in Sport and Exercise Medicine you can support people to achieve their full potential through exercise and sport participation.
Lancaster is one of only three UK medical schools delivering sport and exercise medicine training at postgraduate level. Study with our internationally renowned team of scientists and clinicians and learn from their latest research discoveries in this fascinating field.
Why Lancaster?
- Study with medical experts and sport and exercise science specialists within Lancaster Medical School
- Build your applied sport and exercise medicine skills with practice-based learning and placements across clinical, community and research settings
- Gain valuable industry experience as you study and work in parallel
- Learn through lab-based practical sessions, workshops, seminars and lectures
- Take advantage of specialised facilities such as our Human Performance Lab, Strength and Conditioning Room and Biomechanics Lab
- Learn flexibly with a course that combines blocks of in-person teaching with online learning
Why study sport and exercise medicine?
Throughout the course, you will study emerging themes supported by cutting-edge scientific research.
Our curriculum extends far beyond musculoskeletal health, which is often the main focus of similar courses. At Lancaster you will also explore themes such as respiratory medicine, concussion, behaviour change and community-based physical activity interventions. These topics will help you develop a broad skillset which includes assessing injury recovery, analysing athletic asthma profiles and understanding the impact of concussion.
A focus on cross-cutting practical skills, simulation and case scenarios throughout the programme ensures theory is always connected to practice. You will apply your learning in real-life settings, preparing you for a future in a range of rewarding roles.
The option to study part-time means that, if you wish, you can combine study with work and other commitments.
How will I learn?
This master’s programme is delivered via blended learning, a hybrid of in-person and distance study.
With full or part-time options, it has been designed to enable you to study alongside a full-time job or other commitments.
You will learn in our excellent laboratory spaces, including our Human Performance Lab, Biomechanics Lab, and Mobile Simulation Teaching Unit. These practical sessions give you the chance to put your learning into practice and provide a great opportunity to connect with your peers and course tutors. In between these teaching blocks, you will learn through online lectures and tutorials from your home location.
This degree uses case-based learning. This means you will use real-life case studies and scenarios to explore the key topics and multidisciplinary nature of sport and exercise medicine.
This approach will enable you to identify relevant areas of learning, deeply understand and apply your knowledge as an independent learner and share what you have learnt with your peers.
During your course, you will engage in practice-based learning. Part of this will take place during the practical activities within our campus labs, with the remainder taking place as part of one or more placements that you will undertake during your studies. The sports and exercise medicine team are there to support you in organising your placement.
Who is the programme for?
We welcome applications from people with a range of backgrounds from within health or sport, who are keen to enter or progress their career in the medical care of professional athletes and teams, including:
- Sports and exercise science graduates
- Graduates from other science or health-based degrees such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy, biology or biomedicine
- Intercalating medical school students, both currently studying at Lancaster and from other institutions
- Doctors from within primary or secondary care
- Allied Health Professionals including, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Paramedics.
Equally, the programme will prepare you for PhD study in sport and exercise medicine and related topics.
What will I study?
We have ensured that this programme reflects current trends in the discipline and priorities put forward by the General Medical Council and the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine.
Our cross-cutting clinical skills and simulation focus ensures knowledge and theory are related to practice with real-life sport and exercise medicine.
Working in multi-disciplinary teams, you will address realistic scenarios across a range of populations in a case-based approach.
Sport and exercise medicine careers are evolving beyond musculoskeletal injury and rehabilitation. At Lancaster we provide a wider focus with insight into the major physiological, psychological and biomechanical systems that underpin sport and exercise performance across a wide range of population groups.
Reflecting a clinical skills and simulation theme, you will showcase your skills and knowledge through workplace-based assessments and logbooks, practical exams, written reports, oral communication and a dissertation.
A range of graduate-level professional knowledge and skills will be developed throughout the course to prepare you for a career in sport and exercise medicine or related disciplines, as well as roles in wider health, sport and performance-related settings.
