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Podiatry MSc

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    Overview

    This course has been designed for practicing and newly qualified podiatrists who wish to further their career by expanding their knowledge and skills in the specialist areas within the profession. It provides the opportunity for you to focus on podiatric specialisms including musculoskeletal or management of long-term conditions, as well as enhance your core skills of assessment, diagnosis and management.

    • On the full-time course, you will undertake a clinical practice module, enabling you to develop your clinical practice in the University’s podiatry clinic and out in practice on a 17-week placement.
    • You will be taught by academics who are all practising clinicians within podiatric practice and researchers in their area of expertise.
    • The course will assist you to advance your specialist skills through options modules including injection therapy, independent prescribing, diagnostic imaging, forensic podiatry, wound care and tissue viability.
    • Huddersfield is the only university offering a full-time Master's course in podiatry with a placement in musculoskeletal (MSK) or long-term conditions.

    Through utilising up-to date research evidence, policy documents and a wide range of clinical experience, you will be assisted to further update and develop your clinical practice.

    Key Information

    Entry requirements

    You should:

    • Possess an Honours degree in Podiatry or an equivalent qualification. Individuals without Honours or with a Diploma in Podiatric Medicine will be considered on an individual basis by the admission team.
    • Be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or the relevant registration authority in your country of origin.
    • If you trained overseas, you must be registered with an appropriate governing body.
    • You also need satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and occupational health clearances prior to registration. We arrange these as part of the application process. We will request an Overseas Police Check if you have lived in a country outside of the UK for 6 months or more (whether continuously or in total) in the last 10 years before applying to us and whilst aged 18 or over.
    • There are additional entry requirements for the Independent and Supplementary Prescribing option module. Please see the Independent and Supplementary Prescribing course page for details.

    If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum requirements of an English Language qualification. The minimum for IELTS is 7.0 overall with no element lower than 6.5, or equivalent. Read more about the University’s entry requirements for students outside of the UK on our International Entry Requirements page.

    Start dates

    22 September 2025

    Duration

    1 year full-time
    2 years part-time

    Course Detail

    Project (Health Related)

    This module provides the opportunity to develop a working project proposal related to your course outcomes or place of work, facilitated with learning materials and procedural guidance made available electronically. You will attend lectures and have access to supervision with a subject specialist or researcher in the field.

    120 credits from the following option modules:

    Theory of Clinical Practice

    You will have the opportunity to improve your clinical skills in a wide variety of clinical settings, including the University’s podiatry clinic and placement in practice. Placements will be focused on your choice of podiatric specialism. You will deal with complex health issues both systematically and creatively, and communicate your conclusions clearly. Your ability to demonstrate advanced clinical practice skills will be explored.

    Clinical Assessment and Management

    In this module you will appraise and apply a broad range of assessment and management strategies relating to the lower limb. You will study the practical application of advanced investigations into the musculoskeletal, vascular, and neurological status of the lower limb and the associated treatment approaches. You will also focus on the concepts of evidence-based practice, clinical reasoning, problem solving and evaluation of those strategies.

    Clinical Investigations and Diagnostic Imaging for Podiatrists

    This module provides the opportunity for you to develop the key skills required to order and interpret a range of clinical investigations and imaging modalities used in the diagnosis and management of foot and lower limb pathology.

    Injection therapy (Theory) for the Foot and Ankle

    This module provides the opportunity for you to advance your practice using the theoretical knowledge that underpins clinical practice for injection therapies in the foot and ankle. You will be encouraged to develop an understanding of the principles and actions of the drugs available and techniques used in their administration.

    Person Centred Care

    This module will develop your existing knowledge and skills in communication of person centred care. You will be introduced to the theoretical and practical aspects of effective communication in your practice. Exposure to a range of theoretical concepts will enable critical thinking surrounding service user care.

    Independent and Supplementary Prescribing

    This module helps to prepare you to be an Independent and Supplementary Prescriber. You will explore the relevant professional, legal, ethical policy, evidence-based and practice components of prescribing. You will undertake coursework, examinations in pharmacology and numeracy and complete 90 hours of clinical practice with a practice supervisor and practice assessor.

    Please note the Independent and Supplementary Prescribing module is only available to students studying on the part-time route. Entry criteria applies.

    Students may access modules from elsewhere in the School’s postgraduate provision up to a maximum of two 15 credit modules or one 30 credit module.

    Teaching is delivered through a range of teaching methods including podcasts, practical sessions and group discussions. Assessment will involve a combination of seminar presentations, practical assessments and oral examinations.

    Your module specification/course handbook will provide full details of the assessment criteria applying to your course.

    Feedback (usually written) is normally provided on all coursework submissions within three term time weeks – unless the submission was made towards the end of the session in which case feedback would be available on request after the formal publication of results. Feedback on exam performance/final coursework is available on request after the publication of results.

    1. Our teaching staff rank first in England for the proportion with higher degrees and teaching qualifications, as well as being top five for those holding doctorates (HESA 2025). So you’ll learn from some of the best, helping you to be the best.

    2. We are joint first in the country for National Teaching Fellowships, which mark the UK’s best lecturers in Higher Education, winning a total of 23 since 2008 (2024 data).

    3. We won the first Global Teaching Excellence Award, recognising the University’s commitment to world-class teaching and its success in developing students as independent learners and critical thinkers (Higher Education Academy, 2017).

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    Important information

    Although we always try and ensure we deliver our courses as described, sometimes we may have to make changes for the following reasons

    When you enrol as a student of the University, your study and time with us will be governed by our terms and conditions, Handbook of Regulations and associated policies. It is important that you familiarise yourself with these as you will be asked to agree to them when you join us as a student. You will find a guide to the key terms here, along with the Student Protection Plan.

    Although we always try and ensure we deliver our courses as described, sometimes we may have to make changes for the following reasons

    Changes to a course you have applied for but are not yet enrolled on

    If we propose to make a major change to a course that you are holding an offer for, then we will tell you as soon as possible so that you can decide whether to withdraw your application prior to enrolment. We may occasionally have to withdraw a course you have applied for or combine your programme with another programme if we consider this reasonably necessary to ensure a good student experience, for example if there are not enough applicants. Where this is the case we will notify you as soon as reasonably possible and we will discuss with you other suitable courses we can transfer your application to. If you do not wish to transfer to another course with us, you may cancel your application and we will refund you any deposits or fees you have paid to us.

    Changes to your course after you enrol as a student

    Changes to option modules:

    Where your course allows you to choose modules from a range of options, we will review these each year and change them to reflect the expertise of our staff, current trends in research and as a result of student feedback or demand for certain modules. We will always ensure that you have an equivalent range of options to that advertised for the course. We will let you know in good time the options available for you to choose for the following year.

    Major changes:

    We will only make major changes to non-optional modules on a course if it is necessary for us to do so and provided such changes are reasonable. A major change is a change that substantially changes the outcomes, or a significant part of your course, such as the nature of the award or a substantial change to module content, teaching days (part time provision), type of delivery or assessment of the core curriculum. For example, it may be necessary to make a major change to reflect changes in the law or the requirements of the University’s regulators or a commissioning or accrediting body. We may also make changes to improve the course in response to student, examiners’ or other course evaluators’ feedback or to ensure you are being taught current best practice. Major changes may also be necessary because of circumstances outside our reasonable control, such as a key member of staff leaving the University or being unable to teach, where they have a particular specialism that can’t be adequately covered by other members of staff; or due to damage or interruption to buildings, facilities or equipment, or pandemics.

    Major changes would usually be made with effect from the next academic year, but may happen sooner in an emergency. We will notify you as soon as possible should we need to make a major change and will carry out suitable consultation. If you reasonably believe that the proposed change will cause you detriment or hardship we will, if appropriate, work with you to try to reduce the adverse effect on you or find an appropriate solution. Where an appropriate solution cannot be found and you contact us in writing before the change takes effect you can cancel your registration and withdraw from the University without liability to the University for future tuition fees. We will provide reasonable support to assist you with transferring to another university if you wish to do so.

    In exceptional circumstances, we may, for reasons outside of our control, be forced to discontinue or suspend your course. Where this is the case, a formal exit strategy will be followed in accordance with the student protection plan.

    The Office for Students (OfS) is the principal regulator for the University.

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