Program Overview
This innovative master's program combines online and in-person learning to provide comprehensive knowledge and skills in human reproduction and development. Students engage in synchronous workshops, independent study, and a research project, exploring topics like infertility, assisted conception, and endocrine disorders. The program prepares graduates for careers in clinical settings, research, or further studies.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
This innovative blended learning program provides a comprehensive understanding and skill set in the field of human reproduction and development. It combines face-to-face teaching with web-based technology to support distance learning. The program is designed to appeal to a wide range of postgraduate students, with full-time and part-time study options available.
Outline:
The master's program consists of six mandatory taught units and a research project unit. Students complete a literature review, dissertation, and oral poster examination on their research project over the duration of the program. The six taught units are comprised of interactive, synchronous (live) workshops followed by a period of independent, asynchronous, internet-based home study. Each taught unit equates to a one-week intensive teaching workshop. The first three taught units run in Autumn (September to October) each year as a live interactive online workshop. The next three units will run in January as a face-to-face workshop in Bristol. Students studying on a part-time basis will study the program over two years as opposed to one year. This means part-time students will study half the units in the first year and half in the second year of the program.
Assessment:
Assessment activities include producing posters, infographics, and delivering presentations to demonstrate understanding and transferable skills. Master's students will write a research dissertation based on their own in-depth exploration of the research literature around a focused topic related to reproduction and development.
Teaching:
Teaching is delivered by expert academics, scientists, and health professionals through intensive teaching workshops held online and in Bristol each year. Teaching from the workshops is augmented by innovative online materials, assignments, and activities to help students consolidate their learning.
Careers:
Students on the program come from a variety of countries and backgrounds, all with an interest in reproduction, infertility, and development, or who wish to pursue careers in these areas. Clinical students follow the program for progression and promotion in their discipline, or as a foundation qualification to specialize in IVF and infertility, or obstetrics and gynecology. Scientific graduates go on to work in a clinical or diagnostic setting, training as clinical embryologists or andrologists, through the NHS Scientific Training Programme. Science graduates have also used this MSc as a springboard to non-clinical or clinical research and PhD studentships.
Other:
The program is delivered mostly via distance learning, with a short period of time in Bristol (up to three weeks per year). Students will study fundamental systems, principles, and processes, including the physiological basis and endocrine regulation of gamete formation, fertilization, implantation, and pregnancy. They will also learn about the symptoms, causes, and mechanisms of reproductive disease and dysfunction, as well as the clinical management of infertility, assisted conception, pregnancy complications, and endocrine disorders.
(MSc) UK: full-time£14,300 per year (MSc) UK: part-time (two years)£7,150 per year (MSc) Overseas: full-time£33,600 per year (PG Diploma) UK: full-time£11,440 per year (PG Diploma) UK: part-time (two years)£5,720 per year (PG Diploma) Overseas: full-time£26,880 per year (PG Certificate) UK: part-time (one year)£5,720 per year (PG Certificate) Overseas: part-time (one year)£13,440 per year
