Health Sciences University (UCO School of Osteopathy) · London, London
Osteopath courses at Health Sciences University (UCO School of Osteopathy)
Health Sciences University (UCO School of Osteopathy) runs 2 approved courses leading to registration as an osteopath — integrated master’s and pre-registration master’s, taught in London, London. This page sets out what each one awards, how long it takes, what the published entry requirements are, and how the offer compares with other providers nearby.
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Osteopath training at Health Sciences University (UCO School of Osteopathy)
Health Sciences University (UCO School of Osteopathy) runs 2 approved programmes in this subject, which is unusual enough to be worth understanding — they are not alternatives so much as different starting points. All of them are approved by the GOsC, and that approval is the point of the qualification:
completing an approved programme is what entitles you to apply for registration, and
only registrants may use the protected title
.
The offer here is at master's level, so it is aimed at people who already hold a relevant first degree rather than at school leavers. Pre-registration master's programmes cover the same regulated curriculum and the same supervised practice hours as an undergraduate degree, compressed into a shorter and more demanding timetable. Across the 2 programmes here, course length runs from 2 years to 4 years.
A typical offer is published for every course listed here, and it is set out in full below. Read it as the shape of the offer rather than a promise: entry to these courses is almost always interviewed, and an offer is normally conditional on an enhanced criminal record check and occupational health clearance as well as on grades. One course carries a UCAS code (B110), so that application goes through UCAS rather than direct to the university. Recorded start months: September and August.
Where you train shapes where you are placed. Practice placements on these programmes
are arranged with NHS trusts, health boards and independent providers around the
university, so a course in London, London means learning that patch's
services and its referral routes, and meeting the clinicians who run them. That is
worth weighing against a more distant offer: placement travel is real and can be
daily, and the region you train in is where your first job is most likely to be.
For context, 8 UK universities in this dataset train osteopaths at pre-registration level, so there is usually more than one geography open to you.