Msc clinical microbiology blizard institute
Postgraduate
In London
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
London
Overview
Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, has a long history of providing high quality postgraduate education for clinicians and scientists working in the National Health Service (NHS), Public Health England (PHE) and industry. The aim of this programme is to prepare you for the next stage of your career, whether pursuing further research or professional study.
Students on this course will share many of the formal teaching and practical sessions with students on the MSc Biomedical Science (Medical Microbiology) and MSc Clinical Science (Infection Science) courses, allowing inter-professional learning, but each course has its own unique additional teaching, electronic learning resources and assessments.
The course aims to promote teaching and learning enriched by original scholarship and scientific research; encouraging students to become independent learners.
Formal teaching comprises lectures, workshops, practical classes and demonstrations. Many of the lecturers are specialists in their field and are invited from many institutions within the UK.
The practical classes are an important component of the course and are designed to give the students hands-on experience, particularly in basic clinical microbiology. Students are encouraged to relate current practices in their workplace to their studies, and to discuss and critically evaluate these techniques with their colleagues in light of their formal teaching. The practical classes are taught in the purpose-built teaching laboratory, which is well equipped with all necessary materials and is based on a routine clinical microbiology laboratory.
In addition to the formal face to face teaching, students use online learning materials in the University's virtual learning environment (QMplus). week. This resource is complemented by the two large medical and dental archives based at the Royal London Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital in older,...
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Subjects
- NHS Training
- Medical training
- Full Time
- Part Time
- Medical
- University
- Materials
- Microbiology
- Teaching
- Infection
Course programme
Structure
The course is offered with both part time and full time study options.
Part-timeTo study this course as a part-time student, you must be employed in a suitable laboratory within the NHS, PHE or the private sector and your employer will need to support your application, to be able to give you time to study and provide a suitable project. The taught element of the course is provided one day a week and you will also be expected to undertake additional private study. In your first year of study you will attend on Tuesdays and in your second year, your day of attendance will be Thursdays.
Full-timeUndertaking the course full-time is most appropriate for overseas students. Full-time students are attached to the Centre for Immunobiology within the Blizard Institute (please note this is not a clinical attachment).
Full-time students study for 12 months and will be expected to be able to attend teaching sessions at the University Monday to Friday. In addition to the Tuesday and Thursday teaching shared with part-time students, there are tutorials, research and clinical meetings on other days.
Additional tuitionTo enable the full-time students to participate fully in discussions about laboratory techniques and clinical cases with their part-time colleagues who are attending by day-release, additional tuition is provided in the formative studies module, during the attachment to the Centre for Immunobiology. The additional tuition provides further hands-on practical experience using material designed to reflect the clinical samples and laboratory procedures in a routine hospital laboratory. The students are encouraged to complete the practical work as individuals to gain maximum experience, but discussion within the group and with the tutor is encouraged.
Additional theoretical tutorials are also used throughout the year to broaden the students' experience of clinical microbiology. These tutorials include case presentations to and by the students, workshops, discussion sessions, question-and-answer sessions, and oral presentations by the students. Full-time students receive additional assignments to be completed throughout the year to allow them to monitor their own progress. Full-time students are also encouraged to attend the regular clinical journal club at Barts Health NHS Trust and research meetings within the Centre.
Modules offered on this course are:
- Introduction to clinical microbiology (30 credits)
- Molecular biology, pathogenesis and immunology (15 credits)
- Antimicrobials in clinical practice (15 credits)
- Communicable disease : prevention and control in the hospital and community (15 credits)
- Clinical microbiology : diagnosis and management of human infection (30 credits)
- Advanced clinical microbiology and laboratory management (15 credits)
- Project (60 credits)
Msc clinical microbiology blizard institute