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Sport and Exercise Medicine

MSc

From athletes to people of all abilities, you’ll motivate, diagnose and rehabilitate your patients to make a real impact to their daily lives.

Masters

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Designed for doctors to sport science specialists, you’ll explore the relationship between exercise and health. With practical experiences in our world-leading University Arena, and specialist medical clinics, you’ll have opportunities at Worcester that you can’t get anywhere else.

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Our Sports courses are 7th in the UK for graduate prospects

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1st

in the UK for Quality Education

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Accreditation

This course is aligned with the British Association of Sports and Exercise Medicine (BASEM) standards, which will assist you in applying for membership.


Overview

Our MSc in Sport and Exercise Medicine is based on the philosophy of total care for athletes and promoting physical activity in the community. Whether you’ve studied medicine, physiotherapy, sport and exercise science, or have a clinical background, this course will equip you with the specialist training to start a career in sports medicine.

Learn on the field by providing pitch-side care for athletes at sporting events at our 2,000 seat University Arena, or through working with one of our affiliated franchise teams and local clubs. From working with athletes to manage sporting injuries to maximising the health of your patients through exercise, you’ll learn the latest practice across the areas of sport and exercise science.

You’ll have unique opportunities for hands-on experience with access to our specialist facilities including our BASES-accredited human performance labs. You can measure joint movement patterns on our isokinetic dynamometer or an athlete’s skeletal movement with clinical gait analysis.

Based on our health and wellbeing campus, you’ll work alongside, and collaborate with, other healthcare professionals. Study advanced anatomy in our dedicated anatomy suite, which uses high-fidelity models alongside state-of-the-art digital simulations of life-size human bodies.


Course content

Our Sport and Exercise Medicine MSc is informed by research and current developments in the discipline and by feedback from students, external examiners and employers. Modules do change periodically in the interests of keeping the course relevant and reflecting best practices. The most up-to-date information will be available once you have accepted a place and registered for the course.

Mandatory modules

Careers

As a Sport and Exercise Medicine MSc graduate, you'll be prepared for a wide range of jobs, whether enhancing the performance of elite athletes, promoting healthy living in the wider community, or contributing to public health initiatives.

Once you graduate, you could start a career as a:

  • Public health advisor
  • Corporate wellness manager
  • Clinical sport and exercise medicine practitioner within national governing bodies
  • Sport and exercise medicine specialist
  • Rehabilitation and injury prevention specialist
  • Clinical and exercise physiologist

Course highlights

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Outstanding specialist facilities
Gain confidence in using industry-standard equipment with our specialist sports rehabilitation teaching suite, our newly opened physiology labs, and the Three County Medical School Anatomy suite.

Teaching and assessment

Our course has been designed by academics and industry specialists to prepare you for a career in sports medicine. You’ll be taught through a combination of practical activities, seminars, lectures and one-to-one tutoring.

Teaching and assessment contents

Teaching is face-to-face, supported by online materials and independent study. You are taught through a combination of lectures, interactive practicals, seminars, and laboratory settings. The lectures are for teaching key concepts that relate to the interactive practicals, and seminars and laboratory sessions enable you to apply the principles and understand them fully. Laboratory settings are used to develop industry-recognised skills which are supported by interactive practicals and seminars with the use of case-based scenarios, blended learning, online materials and Problem Based Learning (PBL) that you may be required to present back to peers.

Meet the team

Meet the teaching team for this course.

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James Bateman

James has worked within sports therapy and exercise rehabilitation since 2002, working with athletes at varying levels and working in clinical settings including cardiac and neurological rehabilitation working as a practitioner, lecturer, and researcher.

He enjoys teaching many areas and modules, specifically the exercise rehabilitation processes along with evidence-based practice.

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Dr Christopher Holland

Christopher is a graduate Sports Therapist and has been teaching in Higher Education since 2005 across all areas of Sports Science and Sports Therapy. He has a background as a professional footballer and has worked as a Sports Therapist and Strength and Conditioning Coach across a variety of elite level sports and within private practice. He is also currently a Director of the Society of Sports Therapists and as such brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, and insight to the course.

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Dr Darren Cooper

Darren has worked with athletes professionally since 2003 ranging from dedicated amateurs to Olympians. His areas of expertise are Sports Therapy, Elite Sports Performance, Sports Biomechanics and Learning and Teaching.

He enjoys teaching on many modules, including the Functional Anatomy and the Advances and Developments in Sports Therapy modules.

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James Bateman

James has worked within sports therapy and exercise rehabilitation since 2002, working with athletes at varying levels and working in clinical settings including cardiac and neurological rehabilitation working as a practitioner, lecturer, and researcher.

He enjoys teaching many areas and modules, specifically the exercise rehabilitation processes along with evidence-based practice.

University of Worcester logo on a light blue background

Dr Christopher Holland

Christopher is a graduate Sports Therapist and has been teaching in Higher Education since 2005 across all areas of Sports Science and Sports Therapy. He has a background as a professional footballer and has worked as a Sports Therapist and Strength and Conditioning Coach across a variety of elite level sports and within private practice. He is also currently a Director of the Society of Sports Therapists and as such brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, and insight to the course.


Entry requirements

A good first degree in a subject such as Sport and Exercise Science, Physiotherapy, Sports Therapy, Paramedic Science, or other allied health sciences.

OR

A pass on a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree (BMBS, MBBS, or equivalent). Applicants with a 2:2 in relevant degrees and experience may also be considered but on a case-by-case basis.

Any questions?

If you have any questions about entry requirements, please call our Admissions Office on 01905 855111 or email admissions@worc.ac.uk.


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Fees

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UK and EU Students

The standard fee for full-time home and EU students enrolling on MA/MSc/MBA and MRes degrees in the 2025/26 academic year is £9,450 per year.

For more details, please visit our course fees page.

International Students

The standard tuition fee for full-time international students enrolling on MA, MSc, MBA and MRes degrees in the 2025/26 academic year is £17,900 per year.


How to apply

How to apply contents

Apply to study full time

Please make your application via our online application form.

If you have any questions about applying, please contact the Admissions office on 01905 855111 or admissions@worc.ac.uk.


Contact

If you have any questions, please get in touch. We're here to help you every step of the way.

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James Bateman

Senior Lecturer in Sports Therapy

Admissions Office

01905 855111