Launched in 1986, originally as the MSc in Community Paediatrics, this postgraduate course is part of the longest-running paediatric health MSc in London. A multidisciplinary one-year Master’s degree, the course gives you a unique opportunity to build specialist expertise in paediatrics. Teaching takes place at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health in close collaboration with experts from the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) NHS Foundation Trust. You will gain a deep insight into the key principles and practice of evidence-based paediatrics and child health while also exploring more specific areas, such as acute and chronic paediatrics, molecular and genetic basis of paediatrics, immunisation, safeguarding, nutrition, growth and physical activity. Alongside this, you will build valuable research and transferable skills and gain first-hand experience of the latest evidence-based practice. With diverse module choices in areas including immunisation, child protection, clinical genomics and rare diseases, you can shape the course towards the areas most in line with your interests and career plans.
The course is intended for professionals specialising in paediatrics and child health. The Paediatrics and Child Health (Advanced Paediatrics) MSc is particularly suitable for doctors in training and other health professionals working in paediatrics and child health who wish to consolidate and deepen their learning in paediatrics and strengthen their understanding and skills in research and evidence-based practice in paediatrics.
By the end of your Master’s degree, you will have a valuable understanding of, and academic skills in, evidence-based acute and chronic paediatric practice to take with you into your career. You will learn about current and future developments in paediatric medicine and child health and gain the skills necessary to critically appraise practice and policy, and carry out independent Master’s-level research.
This Master’s degree will help you understand the core principles of evidence-based paediatrics and child health. Many of our graduates have gone onto start or complete their specialist paediatric training, into careers as consultants in paediatrics or senior professionals in other related fields including with the NHS, government health departments, ministries of health and NGOs all over the world.* The course also provides an ideal foundation for doctoral research in this field. *Graduate Outcomes survey carried out by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), looking at the destinations of graduates in the 2018–2024 cohorts.