BA (Hons) Podiatry

On graduating, you will be a qualified healthcare professional making your own clinical decisions. You will be ready to work alone or as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver preventative care, diagnosis, and treatment of a wide range of problems affecting the lower limb. You will be taught about anatomy, physiology, and pathology, and how the body reacts to illness and injury but always with a special focus on foot and lower limb problems. One of the distinctive features of this course is the vast amount of practical experience it gives you. Under supervision, you’ll start seeing patients at the start of the second term of your first year in our on-site Clinical Education Centre. You will also undertake clinical placements within National Health Service clinics across London and the East of England, beginning towards the end of your first year.

Year 1

• Podiatric Practice 1 (core)
• Podiatric Anatomy and Physiology 1 (core)
• Podiatric Pathology (core)
• Professional Practice – Mental Wealth (core)
• Practice-based learning 1 (core)
• Podiatric Anatomy and Physiology 2 (core)

Year 2

• Podiatric practice 2(core)
• Podiatric pathology 2(core)
• Practice-based learning 2 (core)
• Research Methods (core)
• Podiatric pharmacology (core)
• Musculoskeletal Podiatry (core)

Year 3

• Research governance and leadership   (core)
• Podiatric Practice 3 (core)
• Practice-based Learning 3 (core)
• Complex Patients 1 (core)
• Complex Patients 2 (core)
• Practice-based learning 4 (core)

Employability

The ultimate aim of the course is to prepare you for a career in podiatry as a qualified healthcare professional making your own clinical decisions. We’ve designed the course to reflect the employment opportunities open to qualified podiatrists and to make sure your degree gives you a head start in the job market. Many of our students have landed jobs in the same organizations where they undertook clinical placements. One of the advantages of a degree in podiatry is the career choice available to you when you graduate. You could go on to work within the NHS or in private practice. If you choose the NHS route, in a fairly typical career progression you would move from entry-level podiatrist to specialist podiatrist and then to team leader. Alternatively, you might find yourself working in a retail outlet or private hospital, or even abroad. Some of our graduates go on to pursue careers in research and lecturing. A podiatrist’s scope of practice is broad and there are many exciting career opportunities to investigate including some very specialist posts such as a forensic podiatrist, examining footprints in criminal investigations; working as part of multidisciplinary teams with vascular specialists, or in joint clinics with other allied health professionals, such as physios or occupational therapists.