Key information 2023/24
One term:
Duration - 15 months: 3 months pathway + 1 year degree
2023/24 Pathway Tuition Fee - £9,295.00
English Language Requirement - IELTS 6.0 overall with 5.5 minimum in all components
Start Dates - September, April and June
Two term:
Duration - 18 months: 6 months pathway + 1 year degree
2023/24 Pathway Tuition Fee - £11,795.00
English Language Requirement - IELTS 5.5 overall with 5.5 minimum in all components
Start Dates - January April and June
The Pre-Masters programme is designed for those students who do not qualify for direct entry to a postgraduate degree at Edinburgh Napier University.
The Pre-Masters programme will equip you with the advanced skills you need to complete your postgraduate study at Edinburgh Napier University. You can study this over one or two terms depending on your academic qualifications and English language level.
Available Progression Degrees
Students can progress onto:
- MSc Healthcare Management
What you will study
Alongside core modules, you will study subject-specific modules that will equip you with a foundation of knowledge for your chosen field of study.
Common modules across all IIM pathway routes
English and Skills for Masters Studies
The module stresses the critical importance of English language competence in all four language skills areas within an academic context and provides English language preparation for continuing academic study on the later stages of a taught masters programme. Apart from the formal language required for masters study, the module focuses on the advanced study skills required, for example, taking responsibility for your studies as an independent learner, becoming a reflective learner and developing your ability to research effectively, think critically, write and present appropriately and abide by good academic practice.
30 Credits
Introduction to Postgraduate Studies in the UK
The aim of the course is to introduce you to the structure, demands and expectations of postgraduate study across a range of subject disciplines in the UK. There is an emphasis on the development of advanced academic skills of particular relevance to study at postgraduate level and students are introduced to learning strategies that will be of benefit with particular emphasis on the VLE and the role of IT, the Internet, specialist sites and journals that may be accessed digitally. Students will be helped to become more reflective and self-evaluative and to develop group working and team building skills.
Postgraduate Progression Project
This module enables you to engage in a substantial piece of individual research and/or product development work focused on a topic relevant to your subject discipline. The topic may be drawn from a variety of sources including: prior work experience, discussions with peers’ research groups or a subject of personal interest. The project topic will be assessed for suitability to ensure sufficient academic challenge and can be satisfactorily supervised by an academic member of staff. Students will also be supported in considering whatever ethical issues may be raised by their choice of research topic and method. Selecting an appropriate topic and project managing the research and reporting processes are key elements in the assessment of your work.
Course specific modules
Communication within Healthcare
The module focuses on the aims, scope and nature of communication within a professional context. It aims to introduce and develop communication skills directly relevant to the workplace and, in particular, to interactions in the setting of healthcare. While maintaining this focus, the module also strengthens and develops English language skills relevant to the study of healthcare in an international context and through academic investigation. You explore and interpret relevant source materials and use these and other learning materials to enhance their understanding of how work in healthcare and in its management proceeds in practice and, in particular, how good and poor communications along with cultural differences and varying perceptions can influence the effectiveness of the managerial function and processes in practice.
15 credits
Introduction to Leadership and Change Management
This module introduces you to the following topic areas, which you will explore in the context healthcare management: leadership and managerial styles; assessment and mitigation of risk and the pursuit of improvement through change management. You explore partnership and team working, and critique effective leadership in contemporary healthcare practice. You further consider those leadership qualities that are most effective in supporting change within the complexity of healthcare settings, and explore theoretical aspects of leadership in the context of practice within healthcare. Reflective skills will be explored, and these skills will be used to explore the impact of leadership and change management in context.
Applicable to students studying a 2 term programme (IELTS 5.5)
15 credits
Introduction to Human Resource Management
The module aims to introduce you to the definitions and development of the HRM function and provides and overview of the range of areas in which it can make a contribution to the management of an organisation. The module has three main areas of focus; the first surrounds exploring the HRM function in organisations whilst looking at the different stakeholder perceptions and how the function affects them. Secondly it examines the employee recruitment and selection processes and the practical application of these practices; finally the module evaluates employee training and development strategies by considering the many different options and exploring the process through which organisations make these choices in practice.
Only applicable to MSc Healthcare Management students
15 credits
Health Issues in a Global Context
This module looks at issues around public health within a global context and has a focus on how organisations and agencies monitor and combat risks to health from a variety of causes such as infectious and non-infectious diseases, threats to food security, to the environment through, for example, climate change, and to the health of a population through lifestyle choices.
It also introduces you to epidemiology and the study of the distribution and pattern of the incidence of diseases within a population, considers epidemics/pandemics and when a disease becomes endemic within a population. It considers how health risks are identified, how an evidence-based approach enables effective identification of causation, patterns of transmission and enables clinical trials for treatments, including vaccines to combat global health threats.
Only applicable to Master of Public Health students
15 credits