Join Australia’s fastest-growing allied health profession with a world-class clinical exercise physiology degree.
With the brand new UTS Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology, you’ll learn to deliver clinical exercise interventions that transform the lives of people with illness, injury or disability.
Accredited exercise physiologists (AEPs) are allied health professionals who deliver clinical exercise interventions, rehabilitation, health education and lifestyle support for people living with, or at risk of illness, injury or disability.
As an AEP, you can work in a variety of settings, but you’ll have a particular focus on supporting priority populations facing high levels of chronic health risk. These include people living with cancer, cardiovascular disease, mental health issues, intellectual and physical disabilities and workplace injury, among others.
You’ll also work with people experiencing significant health disparities, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; people from culturally and linguistically diverse populations; and people living in rural, regional and remote Australia.
Designed to meet industry demand, the Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology* is your launching pad to a challenging, inspiring, and lifelong career.
*The UTS Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology has been submitted for accreditation from ESSA.
Why study clinical exercise physiology at UTS?
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Connections that count
When you study with us, you won’t just gain the theoretical and practical expertise you need to get ahead — you’ll build the industry connections too. With 360 clinical placement hours embedded into the course, you’ll gain exposure to a variety of real-world environments where you can start developing the professional networks that could transform your future career.
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Recognised by industry
The UTS Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology has been submitted for accreditation by Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA), the sole accrediting organisation for clinical exercise physiologists in Australia. When you graduate, you’ll be ready to work as an AEP and to deliver services under Medicare and other schemes that provide compensation for professional health care.
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Practical, hands-on learning
UTS is known for its commitment to practice-based learning, and our clinical exercise physiology degree is no different. You’ll engage with in-class simulations and extensive clinical placements that include opportunities to practice in our student-led UTS Exercise Medicine Clinic. By the end of your studies, you’ll have the competence — and confidence — to translate theoretical learning into meaningful clinical action.
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One degree. More than one qualification.
When you complete the Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology, you’ll also graduate with four micro-credentials: Mental Health First Aid Training and Accreditation, Indigenous Cultural Capability Training in Health, Good Clinical Practice, and Senior First Aid with CPR. These qualifications will verify the breadth and depth of your expertise, giving you a competitive edge in the job market.
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Learn from the leaders
As a student of this degree, you’ll join a small, supportive cohort and benefit from the interdisciplinary expertise of our world-class teaching team. They are leaders of national and global organisations, collaborators on national and international exercise physiology clinical and research programs, and clinical experts across a range of disciplines — and they’ll embed real-world examples of their own clinical practice at the heart of everything you learn.
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Study where health care happens
Immerse yourself in the professional research laboratories, our UTS Exercise Medicine Clinic, strength and conditioning environments, and activity-based workspaces of our Moore Park facility. It’s part of a health and high-performance precinct that sits alongside the world-famous Sydney Cricket Ground, and it also boasts extensive connections with the hospitals and health services that will support your practical learning.
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.
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SEMESTER 1
94911 - Person-Centred Care and Self-Management
94912 - Clinical Exercise Medicine: Principles and Practices
94913 - Musculoskeletal and Occupational Conditions
94914 - Neurological and Mental Health Conditions
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SEMESTER 2
94921 - Cardiopulmonary and Respiratory Conditions
94922 - Metabolic and Renal Conditions
94923 - Oncology and Haematology Conditions
94924 - Clinical Exercise Physiology Placement 1
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SEMESTER 3
94931 - Professional and Interprofessional Practice
94932 - Complex Cases and Clinical Care
94933 - Clinical Exercise Physiology Placement 2
94934 - Clinical Exercise Physiology Placement 3
