Centre for Sports Medicine
The Centre aims to remain at the forefront of Sports and Exercise Medicine education in the United Kingdom and to provide excellent learning opportunities in a first class teaching, research and clinical environment. Our students learn the full breadth of the science that underpins the practice of sports medicine and exercise physiology.
Dr Colin Fuller, Course Director
The Centre runs a Masters (MSc) degree in Sports and Exercise Medicine which is aimed at practising health care professionals with at least two years experience. This successful programme has been running for over 18 years and is constantly updated and improved.
Prospective students
The MSc in Sports and Exercise Medicine can be undertaken on a one year full-time or two years part-time basis.
The Full-time course
The full-time course commences in September each year and runs until the end of August the following year with lectures having completed in the middle of June. The syllabus is covered by lectures, seminars, demonstrations and practicals usually delivered on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The other weekdays are reserved for private study, production of written reports and oral presentations, clinic attendance and research. A Sports and Exercise Medicine research project and dissertation is undertaken in the second semester and continues through the summer period. The dissertation is submitted by the end of August with a viva voce examination in September.
The Part-time course
The part-time course, identical in content to the full-time course, commences in September each year is covered over the 2 year period. Teaching in Nottingham takes place one day per week during semester time, totalling approximately 33 days each year.
Part-time courses starting in 2010 and 2012 will run on Tuesdays.
Part-time courses starting in 2011 and 2013 will run on Thursdays.
In addition to the one day per week spent at Nottingham, students will devote the equivalent of an additional one and a half days per week to private study, production of written reports and oral presentations and research. Research commences during year one and continues through the summer into the second year. The dissertation is submitted in May in year two.
Research
Staff at the Centre undertake research in Sports and Exercise Medicine related areas, exercise physiology, injury prevention and epidemiology and risk assessment and management.
Some of the research performed by our MSc students has been outstanding and has led to peer-reviewed publication.
Collaborations
The English Institute of Sport (EIS), along with the UKSport Research and Innovation team, have launched an injury/illness prevention and management programme aimed at the prevention of injuries and illness in high performance sports. Dr Debbie Palmer, a Research Scientist working on this project, is based at the Centre for Sports Medicine in Nottingham. The Injury/illness Performance Project (IIPP) forms a major part of this research with a focus on Vancouver 2010 and London 2012.
The aim of the IIPP is to have a performance impact through the development and implementation of a bespoke injury/illness tool for high performance sport in the UK. The provision of accurate and meaningful injury and illness data will help to guide prevention initiatives, in an effort to reduce the number and severity of athlete injury and illness events.
The IIPP is the first national injury epidemiological study of its kind and aims to lead the way in high performance injury epidemiology research.