Occupational Therapy (Pre-Registration) MSc (PGCert PGDip) (Accelerated)

at University of Brighton

Course structure
 

This intensive programme runs over 45 weeks per year, for two years. Your time on the course will be balanced between campus-based study and clinical practice.
 

Sessions are held in small groups, they are interactive, integrated, self-directed, and focus on problem-solving, to examine real-life situations. The use of problem-based learning is considered crucial to students' fast attainment of masters-level standards, and for critical evaluation.
 

Other learning experiences are arranged according to the need of the problem; these may be lectures, practical sessions, skills classes, debates or seminars. Most importantly, all subjects are integrated around the problems.
 

Our postgraduate programmes are taught by a wide variety of methods – small active learning groups, seminars, action learning sets, PBL, lectures, self-directed literature searches.
 

Understanding the relationship between occupation and human health and wellbeing is also explored through student participation in a variety of activities such as cooking, craft, horticulture, performing arts and pottery.
 

Assessments allow for individual feedback in essential professional skills including written critique, report writing, team working, presentation skills, and verbal/written presentation of intervention.
 

Syllabus
 

Year 1 modules

• Introduction to Human Occupation and Beginning Practice 
• Assessing Occupational Capacities
• Novice Practice (placement)
• Maximising Occupational Capacities
• Intermediate Practice (placement)
• Evaluating Occupational Therapy
   

Year 2 modules

• Occupational Therapy: Diverse Settings
• Diverse Practice (placement)
• Occupational Therapy: Teams
• Competent Practice (placement)
• Achieving Best Practice
• Research Project

• Honours degree 2:2 or above in any subject, obtained in the last 10 years. You need to supply a copy of the original certificate.
• Work experience in health or social care preferred but not essential.
   

Other

• Two academic/professional references.
• On entry to the programme, successful applicants will be also required to undertake basic life support training.
• Incomplete applications without the additional entry criteria will not be considered.
• One 500-word report which demonstrates the applicants understanding of the diversity of occupational therapy. Each applicant is responsible for gaining the knowledge required to write the report. Applicants who work in an occupational therapy setting may wish to draw on their experience, but it will be expected that a range of services will be referred to including physical, mental health, hospital or community settings. All applicants are encouraged to use resources such as books, journal articles, and web-based sources. The report will not be expected to cover all occupational therapy practice settings. The report should be in addition to the personal statement and uploaded as a separate document on the personal statement section of the admissions portal.
   

English language requirements

• IELTS 7.0 overall with no element below 6.5 (to meet requirements of the Health and Care Professions Council).

International (full-time) - 16,614 GBP

After professional registration with the HCPC graduates are eligible to take up opportunities in health and social care, in the NHS, social services, and the private sector. There are now many new and exciting possibilities for occupational therapists nationally and worldwide.
 

Occupational therapists work in an ever-widening range of mental health and physical disability settings including acute hospitals, long-term rehabilitation, social care, local communities, schools, factories, residential homes, institutions for older or more profoundly disabled people, voluntary organisations and prisons. Completion of the Occupational Therapy (Pre-Registration) MSc will also prepare you for further study at MPhil and PhD level if you wish to continue pursuing an academic path.