This Master of Health Sciences programme is aimed at preparing students to engage in chronic illness prevention and management. The programme is multidisciplinary and welcomes applications from healthcare professionals from the wider multidisciplinary team (including medical doctors, nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech and language therapists). The year is divided into two teaching semesters (September to December and January to April). During the summer period (May to August) students’ focus on completing a minor dissertation based on original research. Students complete four core modules and two option modules during the taught element of the programme. Option modules are selected from a menu of choices. Students must complete the taught element of the programme to second class honours standard (i.e. 60%) before proceeding to complete the dissertation element. Students who fail to progress to the dissertation element of the programme will exit the programme with a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences (Managing Chronic Illness). The taught component of the programme is offered through blended learning, a combination of on-line and face-to-face learning and teaching. Blended learning is an innovative learning/teaching strategy which combines face-to-face with on-line learning. Most learning/teaching will be delivered on-line through Blackboard, an interactive learning system, which connects directly to a home computer. Students are required to attend face-to-face workshops for the equivalent of 13 days over the programme.In addition to attending workshops, students are expected to engage on-line. Blended learning is a flexible approach to learning making it possible to combine working full-time with studying.

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