Operating department practitioner courses at York St John University

Operating department practitioner training at York St John University

There is one approved route into practice as an operating department practitioner at York St John University: Operating Department Practice MSc (Pre-registration). It is approved by the HCPC, 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 — “operating department practitioner”.

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.

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. Recorded start month: September.

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 York, Yorkshire and The Humber 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, 30 UK universities in this dataset train operating department practitioners at pre-registration level, so there is usually more than one geography open to you.