Pgdip health care research methods william harvey research institute

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Postgraduate

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

Overview
This distance learning programme gives you the necessary academic background and specialist skills to carry out healthcare and clinical research in health services, academic environments, contract research organisations, or pharmaceutical industry environments. It is designed for those who need an understanding of the healthcare research process, providing a detailed picture of the complex and highly inter-related activities of the development cycle, from discovery to successful commercialisation.
Over the last 30 years healthcare research and drug development have been transformed from peripheral activities carried out on an ad hoc basis to a core activity that requires trained, professional, staff. We have developed a modular postgraduate programme in healthcare research, designed to give you the necessary academic background and specialist skills to carry out healthcare research in a contract research organisation, pharmaceutical industry or health service environment.
If you are a graduate, nurse, medical doctor or other health professional working in contract research organisations, the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare, this programme has been designed for you.
This programme will:
Give you an understanding of the regulatory framework governing good clinical research
Allow you to apply the principles that you have learnt to your professional commitments
Contribute to the research culture and knowledge base in healthcare
Give you the knowledge to solve problems in healthcare practice
Develop your skills in gathering, recording and communicating information.
Why study your PGDip in Healthcare research methods at Queen Mary?
Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry is comprised of two world renowned teaching hospitals, St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London, which have made, and continue to make, an outstanding contribution to modern medicine. We were one of the top five in the UK for medicine in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.

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London
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67-69 Lincoln'S Inn Fields, WC2A 3JB

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25/03/2019
About the course: I must say that the feedback and response were amazing.
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23/03/2019
About the course: The course is great. Tutors are supportive. It was perfectly assisting my future step towards a career.
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About the course: My course is very interactive and the lecturers are nice too. The opportunities and people the city life provides is really good. They also prepare you for job search.
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2019

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Subjects

  • Drug Development
  • Clinical Research
  • Full Time
  • Part Time
  • Industry
  • Healthcare
  • Teaching
  • Staff

Course programme

Structure

Healthcare research methods is available for study to MSc or PGDip level, over a period of one year full-time for the PGDip, or two years for the MSc. You may also study for the MSc or PGDip part-time, over a period of up to five years, or by distance learning.

This postgraduate programme share a common spine with our Clinical drug development programme, which also covers the key areas of expertise needed for a successful clinical research programme. The Healthcare research methods programme places an emphasis on health management.

The modular nature of the programme is designed to fit in with the needs of those students who are in full-time employment. The taught element of the modules is delivered in three-day blocks every four to six weeks (approximately).

To achieve a Postgraduate Diploma, you must complete and pass eight modules. The MSc award is dependent on your successful completion of a further four modules, two of which will comprise a critical dissertation of approximately 20,000-words.

Full-time

Undertaking a masters programme is a serious commitment, with weekly contact hours being in addition to numerous hours of independent learning and research needed to progress at the required level. When coursework or examination deadlines are approaching independent learning hours may need to increase significantly. Please contact the course convenor for precise information on the number of contact hours per week for this programme.

Distance Learning

This programme is delivered online by our easy-to-use online virtual learning environment.

You will be able to follow each lecture online via audio recordings and slide/whiteboard content. All written assignments are submitted through the blackboard system and poster and oral presentations assessed through SKYPE/webcam system. You are encouraged to interact with teaching staff and other students in online discussion forums, join group activities and be part of the student community.

The aim of the Distance Learning (DL) PGDip/MSc in Healthcare research methods programme is to provide you with a multi-disciplinary perspective to facilitate your skills. This programme is designed for individuals who need an understanding of the Healthcare research method process and provides a detailed picture of the complex and highly interrelated activities of the development cycle for Healthcare research methods.

The programme provides you with the opportunity to get into the hard-to-enter and highly competitive healthcare environment and indeed improves your chances of getting into this environment.

Part-time

Part-time study is another option which means that the number of modules taken is reduced per semester, with the full modules required to complete the programme spread over two academic years. Teaching is generally done during the day and part-time students should contact the course convenor to get an idea of when these teaching hours are likely to take place. Timetables are likely to be finalised in September but you may be able to gain an expectation of what will be required.

Core modules
  • Clinical Study Design
  • Practical Aspects of Clinical Research and Early Drug Development
  • Ethics and Regulation
  • Data Management and Statistics
  • Specific Topics in Clinical Trial Design
  • Elective Dissertation
  • Health Outcomes and Pharmacoeconomics
  • Marketing Healthcare
  • Dissertation
  • Health and the Human Body
  • Healthcare Organisation and Decision-making.
Option modules
  • Drug Discovery and Pre-clinical Research and Development
  • Toxicology.
Contact

Nina Ravic

+44 20 7882 3404

Pgdip health care research methods william harvey research institute

Price on request