Paediatrics and Child Healthcare Practice

Entry requirements

Learners admitted to this programme must:

• Meet individual requirements of specific chosen modules
• Be currently working with children and young people in a healthcare setting
• Hold an undergraduate degree or equivalent. Learners who do not have a degree but who have successfully completed level 6 or 7 CPD modules may be admitted to the programme through the Middlesex Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) process. This will be at the programme leader’s discretion.
• Evidence commitment to study, professional development to date, consideration of a coherent study pathway and plans for future professional development and progression.
• Demonstrate minimum English language requirements. All modules in the programme are delivered in English so IELTS English required with an average score of 6.5 with no less than 6 in a single area.

Months of entry

Anytime

Course content

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Learning Academy provides outstanding paediatric healthcare, education, training, and development that drives improvements in paediatric care across the world.

GOSH is an acute specialist paediatric hospital with a mission to provide world-class care to children and young people with rare, complex, and difficult-to-treat conditions, giving our learners exposure to specialist cases that are hard to find anywhere else in the world. Children deserve the best. Which is why education has always underpinned everything we do.

The aim of the GOSH Learning Academy (GLA) is to ensure all healthcare professionals, receive continual support, education, and specialist training to enhance their skills at every stage of their career in the field of paediatric healthcare.

You can choose to study a standalone module that will increase your knowledge and competence in your specialist area, or to build a selection of modules into a recognised programme such as a Graduate Certificate (GradCert), Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert), Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) or Master’s (MSc), including awards in specialist areas.

Learn more about our programmes below, as well as our modules which can also be taken as standalone CPD modules. You can also learn more about the work of the Great Ormond Street Learning Academy (GLA) on our website.

Why study MSc Paediatrics & Child Healthcare Practice at Great Ormond Street Hospital Learning Academy?

As an international centre of excellence in paediatric care, this programme utilises the specialist educational expertise of our multidisciplinary team to support you in identifying areas for professional and personal development and for the enhancement of paediatric healthcare practice in your organisation. The options within this MSc award will give you an individualised, flexible modular pathway of postgraduate study, through reflection of your level of practice, knowledge, and clinical experience. This programme will enhance your professional and career development, promoting an informed, critical, and ethical attitude towards postgraduate study and professional practice. The clinical specialisms within the programme will develop your mastery, knowledge and competence supporting your ability to influence and lead on service development and improvement. You will develop strategic thinking, in response to an unpredictable, complex, and dynamic practice environment, when practising as both an autonomous practitioner and when working interprofessionally through your everyday practice.

Course highlights

• Teaching is delivered by expert staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, an international centre of excellence in paediatric care. The Great Ormond Street Hospital Learning aims to provide world-class, multi-professional paediatric healthcare, education, training and development.
• Individualised study pathway tailored to your current and future needs, supported by a programme discussion meeting with GOSH Learning Academy expert staff. It is possible to accredit or recognise prior learning (RPL).
• Clinically specialised modules ensuring the MSc award is highly applicable to the organisation you work in.
• Enables you to demonstrate mastery in healthcare-related competence and knowledge to contribute to improving professional practice and service development.
• Facilitates your acquisition of critical understanding and use of advanced research skills.