Exercise as Medicine

Education facts

Code: TB8004

This course follows up on the previous master course (Human Performance – limitations and improving), with further emphasis on your ability to independently integrate acquired knowledge into the link between physical activity and health, and the effects of exercise to maintain healthiness during various medical conditions. The course includes lectures and seminars on campus and on the web. In addition, you will perform small projects, where you will go deeper into certain topics and present and discuss scientific reports from resent research within the field of exercise as medicine.

Entry requirements

Bachelor of Science with a major in Exercise Biomedicine, Biomedicine, Physiotherapy, or Sport Science, including 15 credits independent project. The degree must be equivalent to a Swedish kandidatexamen and must have been awarded from an internationally recognised university. The courses Anatomy and physiology 15 credits, Exercise Training 7,5 credits. English 6 or English level 2. Exemption of the requirement in Swedish is granted for those with foreign grades.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Exercise as Medicine

  Halmstad University

  Start date: 2 November 2026

  End date: 17 January 2027

  Pace of study: 50 %