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The Health Sciences Faculty offers the following postgraduate degrees and diplomas:

Postgraduate diplomas
Addictions Care
Clinical Developmental Paediatrics
Clinical Hepatology
Clinical Paediatric Cardiology
Clinical Paediatric Critical Care
Clinical Paediatric Diabetes
Clinical Electrophysiology and Epilepsy
Clinical Paediatric Emergency Care
Clinical Paediatric Gastroenterology
Clinical Paediatric Haematology and Oncology
Clinical Paediatric Nephrology
Clinical Paediatric Physiotherapy
Clinical Paediatric Pulmonology
Clinical Paediatric Rheumatology
Community and General Paediatrics
Community Eye Health
Disability Studies
Family Medicine
Health Economics
Health Management
Health Professional Education
Healthcare Technology and Management
Interdisciplinary Pain Management
Maternal and Child Health
Neonatology
Nursing, with specialisations in

• Advanced Midwifery and Neonatal Care
• Child Nursing
• Critical Care Nursing (Child)
• Nephrology Nursing
• Nursing Education (in abeyance)

Occupational Health
Paediatric Radiology
Palliative Medicine
Pesticide Risk Management
Psychotherapy
TB-HIV Management

Bachelor of Science Medicine (Honours) (BSc (Med)(Hons))
Applied Anatomy
Bioinformatics
Biokinetics
Biological Anthropology
Clinical Pharmacology
Dietetics
Exercise Science
Forensic Genetics
Human Genetics
Infectious Diseases and Immunology
Medical Biochemistry
Medical Cell Biology
Medical Physics
Physiology
Radiobiology
Structural Biology

Master of Medicine (Speciality Training) (MMed)
Anaesthesia
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Clinical Pharmacology
Dermatology
Diagnostic Radiology
Emergency Medicine
Family Medicine
Medical Genetics
Medicine
Neurology
Neurosurgery
Nuclear Medicine
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Occupational Medicine
Ophthalmology
Orthopaedic Surgery
Otorhinolaryngology
Paediatric Surgery
Paediatrics
Pathology (Anatomical)
Pathology (Clinical)
Pathology (Forensic)
Pathology (Haematological)
Pathology (Microbiological)
Pathology (Virological)
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Psychiatry
Public Health Medicine
Radiation Oncology
Surgery
Urology

Master of Medical Science
Genetic Counselling

Master of Philosophy
by coursework & dissertation –
Biokinetics
Biomedical Forensic Science
Clincial Paediatric Surgery
Clinical Pharmacology
Clinical Research Administration
Emergency Medicine, specialising in

• Clinical Emergency Care
• African Emergency Care
• Patient safety and Clinical Decision-making (specialisation A)
• Patient safety and Clinical Decision-making (specialisation B)

Health Innovation
Intellectual Disability
Liaison Mental Health
Maternal and Child Health
Occupational Health
Paediatric Forensic Pathology
Paediatric Pathology
Palliative Medicine
Sport and Exercise Medicine
a number of sub-specialities
Addictions Mental Health
Advanced Hepatology and Transplantation
Allergology
Cardiology
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Clinical Haematology
Critical Care
Developmental Paediatrics
Endocrinology
Forensic Mental Health
Geriatric Medicine
Gynaecological Oncology
Infectious Disease and HIV Medicine
Maternal and Foetal Medicine
Medical Gastroenterology
Neonatology
Nephrology
Neuropsychiatry
Paediatric Cardiology
Paediatric Critical Care
Paediatric Endocrinology
Paediatric Gastroenterology
Paediatric Infectious Diseases
Paediatric Nephrology
Paediatric Neurology
Paediatric Oncology
Paediatric Pulmonology
Paediatric Rheumatology
Pulmonology
Reproductive Medicine
Rheumatology
Surgical Gastroenterology
Trauma Surgery
Vascular Surgery

Other Masters degrees

Master of Public Health (MPH)
By coursework and dissertation, with streams in
Community Eye Health
Epidemiology
Environmental Health
General
Health Economic
Health Systems
Social and Behavioural Sciences
MSc in Audiology and MSc in Speech-Language Pathology
MSc in Biomedical Engineering
MSc Exercise and Sports Physiotherapy
MSc in Nursing, By dissertation and by coursework and dissertation
MSc in Occupational Therapy, By dissertation and by coursework and dissertation
MSc in Physiotherapy
Master of Nursing in Child Nursing
Master of Paediatric Neurosurgery

Master of Science (MSc)
by dissertation

Doctor of Medicine (MD)

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Doctor of Science in Medicine (DSc(Med))

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UCT Faculty of Health Sciences Postgraduate Courses