Sport and Exercise Medical Sciences King's College London

Overview

There are few places in the world better placed to develop your learning than the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine at King’s. Not only do we have connections to London’s many centres of sporting excellence, our course benefits from the research and teaching at one of the world’s great medical schools.

Medical expertise meets your traditional sport science programme. The Sport and Exercise Medical Sciences course at King's College London that combines the science of human performance and physical activity with an understanding of disease. You’ll explore a diverse range of areas connected to the world of exercise and sport including physiology, psychology and biomechanics.

Key benefits:

• Explore a broad area that covers several related disciplines including nutrition, biochemistry and psychology

• Benefit from our extensive expertise – few institutions cover such a diverse range of human physiology research areas

• Learn from lecturers who are world leaders in areas including skeletal, cardiac and respiratory muscle physiology, ageing, tissue regeneration, and more

• Be the first to hear drug-related breakthroughs from our world-class bio-analytical and pharmaceutical laboratories

• Complete research projects under the supervision of leading researchers or work with an elite organisation

Career prospects

Our graduates apply their skills to a wide range of roles:

• Support and analysis of elite athletes

• Rehabilitation of athletes and patients

• Academia including research and teaching

• Public health