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MSc - Master of Science
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Full Time
SEP
2 years
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MSc - Master of Science
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Full time
SEP
2 years
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This MSc Dietetics (Pre-Registration) course provides graduates of biological sciences with a route into a fulfilling career, helping people improve their health and wellbeing and their quality of life.
The course has a clinical and health promotion focus and includes three practice placements. On completion you will be able to apply for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) to work as a dietitian.
Why QMU?
Reputation and experience: Dietetic education at QMU is well established, extremely popular and well respected.
Employability: The profession has excellent graduate employability rates and graduates go on to work in a variety of positions both in the NHS and/or in public health, health promotion, private healthcare, government, academia and in industry.
Placements enable you to put your learning into practice: The course delivers theoretical and practical campus based learning with three integrated periods of practice based learning enabling you to develop key knowledge, skills and attributes as a trainee dietitian and to meet and evidence the necessary competence to enable registration with the Health Professions Council
Staff expertise: The teaching team includes four registered dietitians who have strong links with the dietetic profession within Scotland and across the UK.
Research ensures relevance: The University’s clinically relevant research, along with the broad range of experience of the teaching team, ensures that the course remains current.
Facilities: The University campus offers excellent facilities for learning in relation to this course of studies including simulated clinical skills suites, clinical and biochemistry laboratories and food development laboratories. Practice based learning opportunities are provided within a variety of appropriate NHS facilities and settings.
A good honours degree (minimum upper second class honours (2:1) or above is required that includes significant emphasis on human physiology and biochemistry. An application should illustrate what has been done by the applicant to research, and understand more about the role of a dietitian. In particular, evidence of understanding the skills, attributes and values required to work as a dietitian should be evident in the application.
Students living in
Domestic
£9,970 per year
Students from Domestic
Year 1: £9,970 Year 2: £9,970 + £1300 (dissertation fee). The mentioned fee is for 2023/24 year entry. There might be a slight increase in 2024/25 year entry.
£18,400 per year
Students from EU
Year 1: £18,400 Year 2: £18,400 +£3,710 (dissertation fee). The mentioned fee is for 2023/24 year entry. There might be a slight increase in 2024/25 year entry.
£18,400 per year
Students from International
Year 1: £18,400 Year 2: £18,400 +£3,710 (dissertation fee). The mentioned fee is for 2023/24 year entry. There might be a slight increase in 2024/25 year entry.
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