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Master of Podiatric Surgery

2024-25 (also available for 2025-26)

This course is eligible for Master's loan funding. Find out more.

Start date

16 September 2024

Duration

3 years part-time

Places available (subject to change)

15

About the course

Reasons to study

  1. You will be taught by practising podiatric surgeons meaning you will learn the very latest practice and techniques.
  2. It offers you the opportunity to attend a surgical unit clinical placement, meaning you will benefit from real-world experience.
  3. This course is the first in England to lead to eligibility to apply for annotation by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a podiatrist practising podiatric surgery. 

This Master of Podiatric Surgery course is the first in England to lead to eligibility to apply for annotation by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a podiatrist practising podiatric surgery. It offers those who have already studied the Theory of Podiatric Surgery MSc an opportunity to enhance their skills and knowledge allowing them to practise in this specialist area.

  • The course incorporates the College of Podiatry fellowship training programme.
  • It is supported by tutors from the College of Podiatry faculty of podiatric surgery.
  • It contains a large placement element consisting of 600 hours per year, providing you with an opportunity to experience real-world scenarios prior to qualifying.
  • You will be taught by academics who are all practising clinicians within podiatric practice.

Through utilising up-to date research evidence, policy documents and a wide range of clinical experience, you will be assisted to further update and develop your clinical practice.

Course detail

Podiatric Surgical Assessment and Diagnosis

This module will focus on pre-operative care in podiatric surgery and will incorporate theoretical principles of podiatric surgical assessment and diagnosis into your clinical practice. It will explore the links between systemic disease processes and possible perioperative complications focusing on the optimisation of these conditions prior to considering surgical intervention.

Podiatric Surgical Treatment Planning

Your understanding of the principles of podiatric surgical techniques will be expanded. You will explore the importance of early recognition of post-operative complications and appropriate first line management. Your knowledge of surgical procedures, techniques and underlying surgical principles will also be developed. Learning will take place primarily through work-based reflective practice but also via a series of key lectures and practical demonstrations.

Communication and Consent in Podiatric Surgery

You will develop your existing knowledge and skills in communication related to the challenges of podiatric surgery. You will broaden your knowledge of the theoretical and practical aspects of effective communication in your practice. You will explore service user views and needs about podiatric surgery and the impact of your practice has on service users.

Evaluating Podiatric Surgical Practice

You will focus on evaluating your practice in podiatric surgery through design and implementation of a project. In this module you will be supported to develop your understanding of evidence-based practice. You will study the critical appraisal of a variety of aspects of published research in practice settings and will consider the utilisation of outcome measures to evaluate surgical practice.

Podiatric Surgery in Practice

You will demonstrate that you have met the required standard to work as a podiatrist practising podiatric surgery. This module will ensure that you are a safe, competent, reflective and effective practitioner who meets the HCPC standards for a podiatrist practising podiatric surgery. You will show that you can manage surgical cases through all stages, pre-, peri- and post-operative. You will display a critical evaluation of your own practice and establish that you have sound clinical judgement and problem solving skills.

Developing Podiatric Surgical Practice

You will demonstrate that you adhere to the principles that underpin safe surgical practice. You will focus on the progress you have made in your surgical training post by exploring your surgical activity focusing on the new procedures performed and your management of post-operative complications. You will show that you can critically reflect on your surgical practice and learning. Learning will take place via reflective-work based learning activities, lectures and practical workshops.

Entry requirements

Entry requirements for this course are normally:

  • An MSc in Theory of Podiatric Surgery or an equivalent qualification.
  • Be registered as a Podiatrist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and annotated in Prescription only Medicines – Sale/supply (POMS-S) and Prescription only Medicines – Administration (POMS-A).
  • Registered Podiatric Surgical Trainee with an appropriate professional body.
  • Have written confirmation of a podiatric surgical training post with an appropriately trained surgical tutor/clinical supervisor.
  • Have completed a probationary period in this post.

If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum requirements of an English Language qualification. The minimum for IELTS is 7.0 overall with no element lower than 6.5, or equivalent. Read more about the University’s entry requirements for students outside of the UK on our Where are you from information pages.

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Placements


The course contains a large placement element consisting of 600 hours per year. The College of Podiatry faculty of podiatric surgery will help to facilitate this work-based learning. The work-based learning will take place in your place of work as a surgical trainee on a podiatric surgery unit, though you would also do a series of rotations in other departments and in other podiatric surgery units

Student support

At the University of Huddersfield, you'll find support networks and services to help you get ahead in your studies and social life. Whether you study at undergraduate or postgraduate level, you'll soon discover that you're never far away from our dedicated staff and resources to help you to navigate through your personal student journey. Find out more about all our support services.

A wide range of resources are also offered within the School of Human and Health Sciences, which provides you with support in a variety of areas. These include:

Student Hub: a one stop shop for students, studying within the School. Their services include offering advice on extenuating circumstances, extension requests, course progression, suspension and welfare support, organising appointments with academic staff and signposting to other support networks.

Academic Skills Development Team: support students to develop their academic skills and build their confidence in order to improve their grades. The team provide support with academic skills including essay writing, being critical, reflective writing, numeracy, research skills, presentations and group work skills; as well as personal development for example time management.

Learning Technology Support Unit: helps students with any problems they experience with the University’s Brightspace Learning System, including logging on or difficulties experienced when accessing and using modules, and with the PebblePad platform, which is used by students when they go out on placements.

Important information

We will always try to deliver your course as described on this web page. However, sometimes we may have to make changes as set out below.

Changes to a course you have applied for

If we propose to make a major change to a course that you are holding an offer for, then we will tell you as soon as possible so that you can decide whether to withdraw your application prior to enrolment.

Cancellation of a course you have applied for

Although we always try and run all of the course we offer, we may occasionally have to withdraw a course you have applied for or combine your programme with another programme if we consider this reasonably necessary to ensure a good student experience, for example if there are not enough applicants to ensure you have a good learning experience. Where this is the case we will notify you as soon as reasonably possible and we will contact you to discuss other suitable courses with us we can transfer your application to. If we notify you that the course you have applied to has been withdrawn or combined, and you do not wish to transfer to another course with us, you may cancel your application and we will refund you any deposits or fees you have paid to us.

Changes to your course after you enrol as a student

We will always try to deliver your course and other services as described. However, sometimes we may have to make changes as set out below:

Changes to option modules

Where your course allows you to choose modules from a range of options, we will review these each year and change them to reflect the expertise of our staff, current trends in research and as a result of student feedback or demand for certain modules. We will always ensure that you have a range of options to choose from and we will let you know in good time the options available for you to choose for the following year.

Major changes

We will only make major changes to the core curriculum of a course or to our services if it is necessary for us to do so and provided such changes are reasonable. A major change in this context is a change that materially changes the services available to you; or the outcomes, or a significant part, of your course, such as the nature of the award or a substantial change to module content, teaching days (part time provision), classes, type of delivery or assessment of the core curriculum.

For example, it may be necessary to make a major change to reflect changes in the law or the requirements of the University’s regulators; to meet the latest requirements of a commissioning or accrediting body; to improve the quality of educational provision; in response to student, examiners’ or other course evaluators’ feedback; and/or to reflect academic or professional changes within subject areas. Major changes may also be necessary because of circumstances outside our reasonable control, such as a key member of staff leaving the University or being unable to teach, where they have a particular specialism that can’t be adequately covered by other members of staff; or due to damage or interruption to buildings, facilities or equipment.

Major changes would usually be made with effect from the next academic year, but this may not always be the case. We will notify you as soon as possible should we need to make a major change and will carry out suitable consultation with affected students. If you reasonably believe that the proposed change will cause you detriment or hardship we will, if appropriate, work with you to try to reduce the adverse effect on you or find an appropriate solution. Where an appropriate solution cannot be found and you contact us in writing before the change takes effect you can cancel your registration and withdraw from the University without liability to the University for future tuition fees. We will provide reasonable support to assist you with transferring to another university if you wish to do so.

Termination of course

In exceptional circumstances, we may, for reasons outside of our control, be forced to discontinue or suspend your course. Where this is the case, a formal exit strategy will be followed and we will notify you as soon as possible about what your options are, which may include transferring to a suitable replacement course for which you are qualified, being provided with individual teaching to complete the award for which you were registered, or claiming an interim award and exiting the University. If you do not wish to take up any of the options that are made available to you, then you can cancel your registration and withdraw from the course without liability to the University for future tuition fees and you will be entitled to a refund of all course fees paid to date. We will provide reasonable support to assist you with transferring to another university if you wish to do so.

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