Our courses
You can explore sports medicine and population health expertise, using leading imaging, laboratory, and clinical facilities housed at the Institute of Sport, Exercise & Health. You can also focus on the science and engineering technologies behind rehabilitation and therapy, led by our Aspire Create team in Stanmore.
Our BSc Sport and Exercise Medical Sciences integrates the science behind body function and how it responds to exercise in performance, health and disease. Our graduate degrees address sports injuries and medical issues in performers, and the science and engineering behind rehabilitation and therapy.
Undergraduate courses
Sport and Exercise Medical Sciences, BSc
On this BSc Sport and Exercise Medical Sciences degree, you'll learn all about how the human body functions in health and disease, and how it responds to exercise for health and performance.
Postgraduate courses
Sports Medicine, Exercise and Health, MSc / PGDip
This MSc Sports Medicine, Exercise and Health is for clinicians who want to gain a deeper understanding of sports medicine, sports injuries, and exercise medicine. Also has distance-learning option.
Performing Arts Medicine (by DL), PGCert
This distance-learning PG Cert Performing Arts Medicine is for those involved in health services or education who want to work with musicians, dancers, actors, circus artists and other performers.
Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technologies, MSc
Focus on the design, development, and clinical application of novel rehabilitative and assistive technologies, working with assistive technology specialists from the Aspire Create team.
Performing Arts Medicine, MSc / PGDip
This distance-learning MSc/PGDip Performing Arts Medicine provides specialised training for health professionals who want to work with musicians, dancers, actors, circus artists and other performers.
Physical Therapy in Musculoskeletal Healthcare and Rehabilitation, MSc / PGDip / PGCert
We explore the underlying principles of physical therapy. Gain experience of clinically applying rehabilitation techniques. Delivered by specialists at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.
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Our BSc Sport and Exercise Medical Sciences offers a distinct advantage over typical sport science or physiotherapy programmes.
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Why study Sport Medicine, Exercise Science and Rehabilitation at UCL?
At UCL, you will become a leading health professional and scientist of the future. Our courses cover the foundations of human biology and medicine, the body’s response during performance, and how we use technology to rehabilitate and improve mobility and overall health. Focus on sports medicine, performing arts, physical therapy, and rehabilitation engineering in central and north London.
Shared first year for flexibility
Most of the BSc courses in Medical Sciences have a shared first year. This gives you the flexibility to switch degrees if your interests change.
Why our Sport and Exercise Medical Sciences degree?
Find out how our BSc Sport and Exercise Medical Sciences degree differs from typical sport science and physiotherapy degrees.
UCL has opened many doors for me
Marathon runner Nabeela has a special interest in sport and recovery. She took our MSc Sports Medicine, Exercise and Health to specialise in rehabilitation of sports injuries.
Aspire Create
Our Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Engineering courses are based in Stanmore. Aspire Create teams work on human-brain interaction, mobility, and implant technology.
Shaping the future of robotics
Chinemelu Ezeh developed a smart wheelchair equipped with mobile robotic technology to assist users in different situations. He now leads a team at Oxbotica.
Gain new skills, electronics to coding
Ashish studied the MSc in Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technologies, gaining a range of skills from electronics to coding on a range of platforms.
Helping musicians with disabilities
Shreya from the United States studied a Master's in Performing Arts Medicine at UCL. As an instrumentalist herself, she recognised the lack of research and resources for musicians with physical disabilities and decided to investigate the needs and ergonomic solutions for these performers. The degree is offered by UCL's Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences.
Careers
Our sport medicine, exercise science, performing arts and rehabilitation programmes equip you with a real advantage when entering a competitive careers market. Recent graduates have been employed by professional clubs, national sports governing bodies, or continued in academia.
Rehabilitation engineering graduates go onto careers in biomedical R&D engineering, clinical science, and entrepreneurial start-ups. Some of our alumni are pursuing PhDs at world-leading universities, including ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Depending on your course, you will be prepared for potential work in many areas, from elite sports medicine, the NHS, or in performing arts clinics.
Take away valued knowledge and experience and become part of an ever-growing healthcare community with a common interest in the wellbeing of performers or athletes in performance and recovery.
My dissertation was focused on helping musicians with disabilities. I hope to become a physician innovator and treat performing artists when they get injured, prevent these injuries from happening in the first place, and give them the necessary help and support they need.
Our course directors
Meet the inspiring academics who are shaping how we teach Sport Medicine, Exercise and Rehabilitation at University College London.
Co-Director: MSc Sports Medicine, Exercise and Health
Division of Surgery and Interventional Science
Director: BSc Sport and Exercise Medical Sciences
Division of Surgery and Interventional Science
Director: MSc Physical Therapy in Musculoskeletal Healthcare and Rehabilitation
Division of Surgery and Interventional Science
Co-Director: MSc Sports Medicine, Exercise and Health
Division of Surgery and Interventional Science
Director: MSc Performing Arts Medicine
Division of Surgery and Interventional Science
Our research in Sport Medicine, Exercise Science and Rehabilitation
We translate research on elite athletes into health benefits for the public. Our research areas are divided into three areas: physical activity and health, musculoskeletal health, and sports medicine. The Aspire Create team works on human-brain interaction, mobility, neuromodulation, and implant technology in collaboration with the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.
How to run a marathon without injury
Nine tips from Professor Courtney Kipps on how best to prepare for a marathon and how to avoid injury. (The Times)
Don't fear taking up running after middle age
Running provides a good stimulus for bone building cells and can help prevent damage and osteoarthritis, says Prof. Alister Hart.
Physical activity in class reduces obesity in children
More movement in lessons leads to a reduction in children's waist-to-height ratio, says new research from UCL and the ISEH.
Did you know?
UCL Institute of Sport Exercise and Health
Based on Tottenham Court Road in central London, our Institute of Sport Exercise and Health has collaborated on research with the English Institute of Sport and the International Olympic Committee.
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