Choose the only UK podiatry
course with four years of
clinical practice. You’ll learn
advanced practical skills on
weekly placements. You’ll
graduate ready to register as
a podiatrist and begin a
rewarding and flexible
healthcare career.
BSc (Hons)
Podiatry
As a podiatrist, every day you’ll
help people. Your patients will
count on you to help them with a
broad range of mobility and
medical conditions of the foot
and the lower limb. These will
include muscular and
locomotory problems as well as
broader health issues such as
diabetes, arthritis, heart and
blood disorders and disorders of
the nervous system.
On this course you’ll gain the knowledge,
practical skills and confidence that you’ll
need to practise as a registered
podiatrist in the NHS or private sector.
You’ll study a range of modules each
year and attend weekly placements in
podiatry clinics where you will be
involved in the treatment of podiatry
patients. There’s no substitute for
learning in a clinical setting and your
placements will begin in the very first
semester. QMU staff and NHS clinical
staff will work with you as you care for
patients and learn this specialist
healthcare profession.
In Year Four you will study additional
modules relevant for practice and you
will also have additional external NHS
placements. During Year Four you will
also carry out group audits and
experience working in clinical
specialisms.
We have implemented an
interprofessional education (IPE) focus
within all of our undergraduate healthcare
courses, including this one, to help
produce graduates who are confident in
their own professional identity but with
additional skills that will allow them to
work as effective team members.
Year Three
Structure
This is a four-year, full-time honours
degree. You will complete a range of
modules each year, as outlined, and a
dissertation in Year Four.
Teaching, learning and assessment
You will be taught in lectures, seminars,
practical workshops and laboratories.
Outside these timetabled sessions you
will be expected to continue learning
through self-study. You will be assessed
by written exams at the end of each
module or semester. For full details see
the course entry on our website.
Modules
Year One
Cell Biology and Physiology/
Microbiology/ Communicating and
Facilitating Change/ Clinical Studies 1/
Disorders and Management 1/
Foundation Skills for Health Professionals
(IPE1) / Evidence-based Healthcare
(EBHC) 1: Making Online Resources
Work for You/ Locomotory Science 1 —
Anatomy/ Locomotory Science 1 —
Principles of Gait/ Manual Handling
Year Two
Human Physiology and Pharmacology/
Locomotory Science 2 – Anatomy/
Locomotory Science 2 – Normal Gait/
EBHC2: Informing Practice Through
Evidence/ Pathophysiology/ Clinical
Studies 2/ Disorders and Management
2/ Professional Roles and
Interprofessional Teamwork (IPE2)
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Clinical Studies 3/ Dermatology of the
Lower Limb/ Disorders and Management
3/ EBHC3: Appraising the Evidence/
Interprofessional Working and Person
Centred Care (IPE3)/ Locomotory
Science 3 – Anatomy/ Locomotory
Science 3 – Pathological Gait/
Professional Issues — Professionalism
Year Four
Clinical Studies 4/ Developing Resources
for Patient Education/ Disorders and
Management 4 – Tissue Viability/
EBHC4: Clinical Audit/ Political and
Social Contexts (IPE4)/ Professional
Issues – Preparation for Registration and
Practice/ plus one module from Podiatric
Mechanics OR Medicine and Pathology
The modules listed here are correct at
time of print (Feb 2019) but will differ to
those offered in 2020 following a
revalidation in Spring 2020.Please check
the website for any updates.