This innovative MSc programme makes extensive use of the internet to provide a comprehensive theoretical foundation in the areas of human reproduction and development. The programme is designed to appeal to a wide range of postgraduate students including scientists, nurses and clinicians. Residential workshops will be held in Bristol, comprising lectures and seminars as well as journal clubs, practical sessions and assessments. Each distance-learning unit comprises online tutorials and lectures plus assessment by essays and online questions. Students on the programme come from a variety of countries and backgrounds and all have an interest in reproduction, infertility and development and/or wish to pursue careers in these areas. The taught master's degree is undertaken by the vast majority of our clinician students for training purposes for progression and promotion in their chosen discipline, or as a foundation qualification allowing them to specialise in the disciplines of IVF and infertility and/or obstetrics and gynaecology. The clinical graduates use the knowledge and skills learnt on the programme to gain research skills to aid publication, develop their medical practices and enhance their expertise in reproductive medicine. The science graduates have used this master's degree as a springboard into non-clinical research, such as PhD studentships, or for clinical/diagnostic positions such as clinical embryology.