Advanced Professional Practice (Pelvic Health) (Taught)

Are you a physiotherapist, midwife, nurse specialist or doctor working within pelvic health? If so, this advanced clinical practice pathway in pelvic health, is designed to provide you with the advancing skills in assessment, diagnosis and patient management to progress as an advanced clinician to provide conservative management of pelvic floor dysfunction.

You’ll explore links between research, theory, policy and practice, and how to apply them to optimise practice and service delivery. You'll become an effective leader and practitioner in the field of pelvic health.

The full master's course can be studied in 1 year full-time starting in September.

You’ll benefit from a course designed to incorporate a multidisciplinary perspective, that’s mapped against the Advanced Clinical Practice framework and credentials for pelvic health as set out by NHS England. You’ll study key modules in clinical leadership, teaching and learning and research.

Alongside this, your specialist modules will cover assessment and diagnosis; conservative management of pelvic floor dysfunction and advanced practice with postpartum care, and pain. You’ll learn practical skills to assess and manage urinary and faecal incontinence, emptying disorders of the bladder and bowel, sexual dysfunction, pelvic organ prolapse and pain and postpartum acute and long term recovery.

Course Modules

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