University College of Osteopathy
Master of Osteopathy (M.Ost): Part-Time
London, United Kingdom
Master degree
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The part-time Master of Osteopathy (M.Ost) undergraduate programme gives you clinical skills, knowledge and teamwork to practice as an osteopath. You'll train in UCO Clinic, meeting GOsC and QAA requirements, including specialist clinics. Clinical education starts term one with observation, advances to supervised decision-making and treatment, and leads to managing your own patients in the final years under practicing faculty. You’ll gain patient assessment, manual therapy and research appraisal skills.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can apply to the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) for registration and practice as osteopaths in private, community or sports clinics; roles include clinician, educator and researcher.
This part-time undergraduate Program equips students with the underpinning knowledge, hands-on experience and multidisciplinary teamwork needed to be a competent osteopath, and will enable graduating students to apply to the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) for registration and begin professional practice.
Over the duration of the course you will spend extensive time in the UCO Clinic in accordance with GOsC and Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) requirements. This will include opportunities to work with particular patient groups through our specialist and community clinics. Clinical education starts from the first term of the first year with observation of osteopathic practice, and as your knowledge and skills develop you will have increasing responsibility for the decision making and treatment before you manage your own patients in the final two years. You will be supported by experienced clinical faculty members who are all practising osteopaths.
You will also have the opportunity to develop a variety of skills that will be needed as a fully-qualified osteopath working in primary health care, including the ability critically to assess research, journal papers, lectures and presentations to inform the best possible care for your patients.
