Delivery of Primary Health Care MSc

The programme aims to facilitate graduates who have broadened their knowledge and skill sets beyond clinical medicine. Various cross-cutting themes and aims help develop a culture of self-critical, self-motivated lifelong learning, fostering leadership skills within the setting of the ever-changing political and economic structures of the NHS. Students develop an understanding of critically appraising research and the value this brings to practice by carrying out their own small scale research projects within the ethical boundaries of primary health care.The programme offers a flexible route to a Masters award, and although the programme uses existing research modules students consider primary health care as the focus for their studies.Students take both a qualitative and quantitative research methods module, taking more credits in one of these depending on their proposed Independent Study methodology (for example, a student intending to undertake a quantitative methodology for their Independent Study would choose a 40 credit quantitative methods module). Students are supplied with guidance as to which methodology they should choose. Students have free choice over whether they undertake taught or distance learning modules.