School of Health Professions

Welcome to the School of Health Professions
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About us

The School of Health Professions has something for everyone interested in health and care–related professions.
We offer a unique inter-disciplinary learning environment. You can benefit from excellent skills and research laboratories, research-informed teaching, stimulating practice placements and teaching delivered by professionally registered academic staff.
We are proud of our commitment to student voluntary work, staff-student partnership, strong professional values and our record of student achievement and student satisfaction.

Are you ready to make a life-changing impact on the patients in your care?

We offer a unique inter-disciplinary learning environment. You can benefit from excellent skills and research laboratories, research-informed teaching, stimulating practice placements and teaching delivered by professionally registered academic staff.
  • Three-year courses that lead to registration as a healthcare professional
  • Masters-level programmes
  • Conversion programmes
  • Degree apprenticeships
Student paramedic training
 

Your career as a healthcare professional starts here

The first-class new home for our healthcare teaching and research providing students with skills to meet the needs of 21st century careers.

InterCity Place
InterCity Place

A unique new learning space where undergraduate and postgraduate students from the largest breadth of health disciplines in the South-West learn together under one roof, with expert practitioners.
Medical students using the Anatomage table clinical
Plymouth Integrative Health and Social Care Education Centre (PIHC)

Experience an interprofessional learning environment across our health programmes that will prepare you for life as a healthcare professional.
First choice for health
Become a healthcare professional of the future

Collaboration across the schools helps students to learn with, from and about each other, gaining the real-world experience employers seek.

The skills you need to be an allied health professional

We worked with on the 2020 Careers in Science and Healthcare campaign. A printed publication is enclosed within every copy of The New Scientist newspaper and the content is also . The campaign featured exclusive content about the importance of the science and healthcare industries from key thought leaders and industry voices – including Professor Sara Demain , Head of School of Health Professions.
Helicopter ambulance paramedic
Podiatry students training in Intercity Place
Explore our state-of-the-art facilities
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Additional checks and clearance for applicants
Continuing professional development
Continuing professional development opportunities

Allied health and care practitioner research

The School of Health Professions has a thriving community of allied health and care researchers who conduct research with the explicit purpose of improving the health and care of the populations we serve. Our work has national and international reach and impact.
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Participation in Everyday Life (PIEL) Research Group

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FoodSEqual Plymouth

Fruit at a farmers market

Dietetics, Human Nutrition and Health

Motor Control Lab Immersive Treadmill

Rehabilitation research

Eye and vision

Eye and Vision Research Group

Placements and groups

Find out more about our groups or access placement information.

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Plymouth Online Practice Placement Information (POPPI)
Whether you are a student or placement provider, POPPI provides a wealth of useful placement information.

Schwartz Rounds

Schwartz Rounds
A forum for staff and students from all health and social care professions to discuss the emotional care aspects of their work and training.

Professional groups within The School of Health Professions

Service User and Carer Groups
The School has two active groups comprised of service users, carers and representatives from academic programmes within the school.

People

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