Genomic Medicine

Master

In London

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

This course follows a curriculum designed by Health Education England and is suitable for healthcare professionals and other students with an interest in Genomic Medicine. As a jointly taught programme delivered by St George’s and King's, students will benefit from the breadth of expertise provided by both institutions.
You will learn how recent technological advances have transformed how genomic data is generated, analysed and presented and its relevance to a range of clinical scenarios as well as how to handle such big data. Development of knowledge and skills in these areas will further enable healthcare professionals to deliver services aligned with the values of the NHS constitution. This is a flexible programme, structured to provide options for PgCert and PgDip awards as well as the MSc or if you prefer, modular study towards your Continuous Personal and Professional Development (CPPD).

Key Benefits
Jointly taught by King’s and St George’s, University of London – institutions with world-class research, clinical and teaching expertise across the full spectrum of Genomic Medicine
Integrated within the South London Genomic Medicine Centre
King’s ranked 1st in the UK for Clinical Medicine (REF 2014, proportion of overall submission that was ranked 4* or 3*)
King’s ranked 16th in the world for Clinical, Pre-Clinical and Health (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2016/17)
Both campuses are co-located with leading teaching hospitals
Institutional expertise in multi-professional education

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Great Maze Pond, SE1 9RT

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Teaching
  • University
  • Healthcare
  • Genomics

Course programme

Year 1 Required Modules

MSc and PGDip students take all of the required modules

PGCert students take the first four modules from the following list, totalling 60 credits

  • Introduction to human genetics and genomics (15 credits)
  • Omics techniques and their application to genomic medicine (15 credits)
  • Genomics of common and rare inherited diseases (15 credits)
  • Genomics in cancer pathology (15 credits)
  • Pharmacogenomics and stratified healthcare (15 credits)
  • Application of genomics in infectious disease (15 credits)
  • Bioinformatics, interpretation, statistics and data quality assurance (15 credits)

MSc students will also take

  • Research project (60 credits)

Optional Modules

MSc and PG Dip students choose from a list of optional modules to take your total credits to 180 and 120 respectively

  • Ethical, legal and social issues in applied genomics (15 credits)
  • Counselling skills in genomics (15 credits)
  • Cardiovascular genetics and genomics (15 credits)

We regularly review our modules to make sure our programmes are as up-to-date, innovative and relevant as possible. The modules we offer may therefore change. We suggest that you check the course finder for updates:

Genomic Medicine

Price on request