The DProf Health is a research-based degree for practising professionals in healthcare, social care and educational environments that seeks to develop professional practice alongside knowledge contributions. In this module, students are prepared for doctoral health research and learn what it means to be a scholarly practitioner. We use this term to describe the individual who emerges from the DProf Health and is able to create and use scholarly work to question their own and others’ practice and to make a significant contribution to the development of healthcare professions and organisations.