Continuing Professional Development

We offer a number of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) units that are designed to be every bit as flexible and part-time as our Masters programmes. CPD is a great way to maintain and improve your knowledge, skills and competence during alongside your professional career.

Benefits of CPD study

If you're a practising health professional you may have been tempted to gain more qualifications, but have been put off by time commitments or the rigours of a full diploma or masters qualification.

Select units that meet your professional learning requirements
Units you choose can contribute to our postgraduate programmes (this may be limited to 6/12 credits) or the University's postgraduate awards.
Flexible learning that fits around your busy working life
Enhance your CV and practice portfolio
Time and financial commitments are lower than postgraduate programmes
A steppingstone to further qualification and career development

Current courses

All of these units can contribute towards the MSc Professional Development, and many others can form part of our postgraduate programmes. View information about the tuiton fees and any Frequently Asked Questions.

Units	Programme(s) credits contribute to	Start date	Available to	Apply
HL50181: Introduction to learning and teaching in primary care (with assessment)	MSc Primary Care	Jun 2013 / Oct 2013	All healthcare professionals	Enrol now (Jun) » Enrol now (Oct) »
HL00180: Introduction to learning and teaching in primary care	MSc Primary Care	Mar 2013	All healthcare professionals
HL50178: Advanced musculoskeletal medicine for primary care (12 credits)	MSc Primary Care	Oct 2013	All healthcare professionals	Enrol now »
HL50177: Common musculoskeletal conditions in primary care (12 credits)	MSc Primary Care	Oct 2013	All healthcare professionals	Enrol now »
HL50173/HL50174: Practice Enquiry (12 credits)	MSc Primary Care	May 2013	All healthcare professionals	Enrol now (HL50173 - 6 credits) » Enrol now (HL50174 - 12 credits) »
HL50168: Evidence-based Practice (6 credits)	MSc Primary Care	Oct 2013	All healthcare professionals	Enrol now »
HL50157: Exercise for health (6 credits)	MSc Sport and Exercise Medicine / MSc Primary Care	Dec 2013 / May 2014	Doctors	Enrol now (Dec) » Enrol now (May) »
HL50140: Athlete biomechanics and sports analysis (12 credits)	MSc Sports Physiotherapy / MSc Sport and Exercise Medicine	11 March 2013	Physiotherapists and Doctors
HL50138: The sports environment (6 credits)	MSc Sports Physiotherapy	Sept 2013	Physiotherapists
HL50124: Leadership and the organisation of change	MSc Research in Health Practice		All healthcare professionals
HL50123: Learning and teaching in healthcare	MSc Research in Health Practice		All healthcare professionals
HL50122: Knowledge and information management	No specific programme		All healthcare professionals
HL50121: Consumer health informatics	MSc Primary Care / MSc Research in Health Practice		All healthcare professionals
HL50120: Communication	MSc Research in Health Practice		All healthcare professionals
HL50111: Sports injuries and rehabilitation (12 credits)	MSc Sport and Exercise Medicine / MSc Primary Care	Sept 2013	Doctors
HL50077: Research project design (6 credits)	MSc Primary Care		Registered on MSc programme
HL50072: The psychology of sport and exercise (6 credits)	MSc Sport and Exercise Medicine / MSc Primary Care / MSc Research in Health Practice	Sept 2013 / Mar 2014	Doctors	Enrol now (Mar) »
HL50071: Exercise physiology (6 credits)	MSc Sport and Exercise Medicine / MSc Primary Care / MSc Sports Physiotherapy	Dec 2013 / May 2014	Physiotherapists and Doctors	Enrol now (Dec) » Enrol now (May) »
HL50068: The sports doctor (6 credits)	MSc Sport and Exercise Medicine	Sept 2013	Doctors
HL00171: Motivational interviewing in Clinical Health Care			All healthcare professionals	Currently unavailable
Leadership (to be confirmed during 2012)	MSc Primary Care		All healthcare professionals	Book from July 2013

On demand courses

We also offer a number of other courses that will only run when there is sufficient interest.

To register your interest for any of these courses, please email: cpd@bath.ac.uk

Entry requirements

Some units have specific entry requirements (see table). To join any unit, we require you to have the following;

A first degree (or equivalent) from a recognised university.

Please check the relevant Masters programme page to see if there are any specific entry requirements, or English requirements for the programme the unit contributes to.

Further information

View the Frequently Asked Questions page for further information about CPD study, or email: cpd@bath.ac.uk