MSc Clinical Exercise Physiology

Edinburgh Napier University

This practical and applied course, fully accredited by the Academy of Healthcare Science (AHCS), will develop the specialised knowledge and skills required for a career as a registered Clinical Exercise PhysiologistThere has never been a more pressing need for CEPs to support the health of the nation. The NHS and other health care providers are facing unprecedented demand for services while the experience of Covid highlighted and exacerbated issues related to an underlying physical inactivity epidemic. CEPs are University MSc qualified health professionals trained to screen, assess and apply clinical and scientific reasoning to ensure safety and appropriateness of exercise-based interventions that can support long term behaviour change as professionals they are expected to advance their practice through continuing education, competency development and professional experience.This course is accredited by the Academy for Healthcare Science (AHCS) and graduates from the MSc in Clinical Exercise Physiology are eligible to register with the AHCS as clinical exercise physiologists.