Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology

Speaker 1
A clinical exercise physiologist, is an allied health professional. So we use exercise as medicine. We deal with a range of different conditions like diabetes, heart disease, neurological disorders, as well as a range of other medical conditions and healthy people as well. We need clinical exercise physiologists in Australia because one in two Australians have a chronic condition and one in five have multimorbidity, which is more than one chronic condition.

Speaker 1
Now more than ever in clinical exercise, physiologist are the best place allied health professional to use, exercise to treat, manage and reduce the impact of chronic illness. The Masters of Clinical Exercise Physiology here at UTS is a one and a half year master's course. It's very much clinically focused, translating research into practice.

Speaker 2
It's really integrating the expertise not only of academics but also clinicians and integrating what we know works so well in the clinical setting into the training of the course. It integrates lived experience, so we're interviewing people who are the service users and asking them what do they think is really important for teaching the future workforce. We have a number of novel teaching approaches.

Speaker 2
Some of them include quite immersive experiences, so we get students to have some first hand in situ clinical practice right from the very start of the course. So that means they're going out into various different clinical settings to actually apply what they're learning in theory into actual practice. We've got some of the most state of the art facilities really conveniently embedded within the program, so students get real world immersive experiences.

Speaker 2
So working with clients under the safety of the exercise physiology program here. But then that's a really nice stepping stone to then integrate into our amazing industry partners that we have in various health settings.

Speaker 3
The Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology. Our new program is really important for our students. Clinical exercise physiology is one of the fastest growing health professions, and introducing this program provides the students of UTS a new way or a new career path that we didn't have before.

Speaker 2
I think students should choose to study the masters of clinical exercise physiology here at UTS because I think that we have one of the best programs to offer.

Speaker 4
I was originally doing my bachelor's and i heard about this degree they were building a facility that's going to be state of the art, heard about teaching staff that were coming. So it was a great opportunity for me to try something new. And the academic staff are really supportive, if you need any extra help or anything. They're more than happy to spend time with you to work through.

Speaker 5
Honestly, the facilities we have from both the anatomy and also now, like the new gym on level two, it's it's great. If you have a passion for exercise and you have a passion for helping people and you really want to explore different avenues of where evidence based research of exercise programing can take you and the physiological adaption behind that, then like this is literally the course for you.

Speaker 5
I really enjoy like helping people. So being that light in that at the end of their tunnel is something that I want to do.