MSc Occupational Medicine

For entry in the academic year beginning September 2027, the tuition fees are as follows:

• MSc (part-time distance learning)
  UK students (per annum): £6,400 in year 1 and 2, £3,200 in year 3
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £6,400 in year 1 and 2, £3,200 in year 3

The fees quoted above are fully inclusive of tuition, administration and computational costs.

Fees for entry are subject to yearly review. The University reserves the right to increase your tuition fee by up to 7% each year for courses lasting more than one year, including to reflect rising costs associated with delivering our educational and wider student experience. Postgraduate fees information .

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Students opting for MSc 1 year full-time or 2 year part-time course of study could qualify for a PGT loan from the UK government. Please see our university pages or contact admissions.

Students studying our MSc programme over 3 years part-time may also be eligible for a postgraduate loan if there is no other suitable full time equivalent course available in the UK at the time of application. Please contact our admissions for more information.

Please note: The fees do not cover any costs for travel or accommodation related to any optional on campus events.

Several of our students are sponsored by their employers or the governments of their home countries.

Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning, AP(E)L

The University permits applicants with comparable previous experience to submit an application for consideration of Accreditation Prior (Experiential) Learning (AP(E)L). AP(E)L will be allowed up to half of the total credits needed for the programme at the point of application. If you wish to submit an AP(E)L application, please contact the admissions team.
If an AP(E)L application is successful, the overall tuition fee is adjusted accordingly and a small administrative charge applied.

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

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A limited number of Equity and Merit scholarships are available to applicants from Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Please visit the Equity and Merit scholarships page for full details.

The Critical Literature Review enables students to conduct a detailed critical reflection and evidence-based review relating to an occupational medicine, health or hygiene question or topic. The critical literature review is embedded within a research framework. It shares some similarities to the preliminary sections of a dissertation, but with a smaller word count (maximum 5000 words). This option is particularly attractive to students wanting to benefit from completing more taught course units, followed by a shorter written piece of work, rather than a longer dissertation. Students will choose their own topic of interest relating to an occupational health problem. 

Students will have an allocated supervisor to guide and develop their academic work for the critical review, across approximately 10 hours of supervisor guidance over the year. The supervisor is allocated early in the year. Induction sessions are held at the beginning of the academic year to support the learning objectives of this unit, with emphasis on the development of a research question.  Students present a brief outline of their review proposal, for peer reviews. This is an opportunity for the student to meet the academic team and to discuss their ideas with the course tutors and other students. The expectations and assessment criteria for the Critical Literature Review are set out in the Critical Literature Review Handbook. 

Two optional taught course units must be selected 

The unit aims to develop critical analysis skills through the practical experience of conducing a detailed exploration of the evidence base relevant to professional practice and producing a literature review.  Students will develop a research question relevant to occupational health or hygiene, search for relevant literature and evidence, appraise the evidence and its value to the research question, and make conclusions and recommendation. The unit promotes the use of evidence-based practice for problem solving and solution generation.
 

The learning outcomes expect that students will be able to:  

• describe the principles and steps involved in critical literature review
• demonstrate practical skills in searching for evidence and critically appraising evidence
• synthesise information from disparate sources
• formulate evidence-based conclusions and recommendations
• create a written report to reflect their critical literature review

 

The unit is predominantly self-directed through independent learning. Relevant information and formative feedback are delivered through online synchronous workshops at the start of each semester. Information and support are also made available through a dedicated space on Canvas or other University central learning environment. 
Student progress is monitored by supervisors.

On completion, students should be able to:

• Describe a specific context, setting and/or problem and establish a coherent research-related question that forms the foundation of the written review
• Investigate a problem using the principles of critical literature review. 

On completion, students should be able to:

• Organise and critically analyse retrieved research evidence.
• Synthesise research evidence from disparate sources and summarise in a meaningful format. 
   

On completion, students should be able to:

• Design and implement an appropriate search methodology to obtain the existing information to address the aims of the critical review 

On completion, students should be able to:

• Critically reflect on learning in relation to critical literature review  
• Demonstrate the ability to be a self-directed learner, to accomplish written academic work  

Description	Weighting	Length
Critical Literature Review	100%	5000 words

Formative feedback is delivered through online synchronous workshops at the start of each semester

If you have any questions regarding the content of this unit, please contact the Course Unit Lead, John Owen, via john.owen@manchester.ac.uk.

If you have any other queries, please contact the Programme Admin team via shs.programmes@manchester.ac.uk.