Background and Programme Portfolio

January 2022

College of Medicine and Health

• The College of Medicine & Health encompasses the University of Exeter Medical School, Academy of Nursing, and Department of Allied Health Professions
• Innovative, contemporary and patient-centred programmes, informed by best educational practices
• Educating doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and medical scientists
• Strong links with health and social care
• Excellent training facilities within clinical centres
• Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) GOLD

Postgraduate taught degrees

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https://medicine.exeter.ac.uk/study/pgt/

Where are we?

Undergraduate programmes

• BMBS Medicine
• BSc Medical Sciences
• BSc Neuroscience
• BSc Sport and Exercise Medical Sciences
• BSc Medical Imaging (Diagnostic Radiography)
• MSci Nursing (4 years)

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Our postgraduate opportunities

Programmes available

Health Data Science

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Master of Public Health

Clinical Pharmacy

• Designed to support pharmacists to develop the knowledge, clinical skills and behaviours required to provide patient-centred care as part of multidisciplinary healthcare teams
• Blend of online learning supported by face-to-face contact days with communication and clinical skills training within our Clinical Skills Resource Centre
• Patient case-based activities that reflect the challenges of current clinical practice
• Supportive, enthusiastic and clinically active tutors
• Core Modules: Applied Therapeutics, Skills for Patient-centred Care, Independent Research
• Optional Modules: From Theory to Practice to Quality, Long-term Condition Care 1&2, Population and Public Health, Care of the Older Adult, Acute Presentations in Practice, Principles of Primary Care

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Health Data Science

• This course will help you develop innovative skills needed to unlock knowledge from complex health data, to address some of the biggest health challenges that we face across the globe today. This course combines the expertise of our world-renowned health scientists with experts in mathematics and computer science to develop a better understanding of diseases and to find ways to prevent, treat and cure them.
• 1 of only 6 new MSc courses in the UK funded by Health Data Research UK (HDRUK).
• A chance to learn and apply your quantitative skills (e.g. computing, maths, statistics) in a health and medical setting, even if you have had no experience in health, medicine or biology.
• Exciting research project opportunities, including working in the NHS, and health-related industry such as large pharmaceutical companies.

Genomic Medicine

• Online and face-to-face options
• Practice in the clinical professions will be transformed by genomic technologies and information within the next decade.
• This programme has been developed by Health Education England and is aligned with their vision to prepare the NHS for the legacy of the 100,000 Genomes Project.
• Includes study of the genomics and informatics of rare and common diseases, cancer and infectious diseases, which can be applied to clinical practice and medical research. The programme enhances knowledge and skills in this rapidly evolving field. 

Health Research Methods

The global burden of disease and challenges of safe and accessible health services means that more than ever we need to be developing, testing, evaluating and implementing evidence-based healthcare in highly complex situations.

• These programmes have been designed to give you the skills and knowledge to enact meaningful change and gain a comprehensive grounding in health services research methods.

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Environment and Human Health

• Based at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health at Knowledge Spa, Truro.
• Investigate the intricate relationships between contemporary global human health and the environment.
• Explore how factors such as climate change, air pollution and microbes impact health.
• Discover the potential to harness the natural environment as a resource to improve health and wellbeing, and address health inequalities.

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Master of Public Health

• Research-led and practice led across the range of content
• Signature modules emphasise 21^st-century learning
• Preparing public health leaders
• Designed so that students would have the knowledge needed to undertake Part A examinations of the Faculty of Public Health
• Developed against leading international standard for public health teaching and learning
• Appealing to international as well as UK students
• In association with University of Exeter Business School (UEBS)

Healthcare Leadership and Management

• Challenge you to consider offering solutions alone and in collaboration.
• Support your development as a leader through engagement with both core and advanced concepts in leadership and change focussing on the delivery of healthcare at team and system level.
• Enable you to analyse, synthesise, evaluate and reflect on the translation of research-based evidence into healthcare practice.
• Provide opportunities for you to refine written and verbal communication skills through the examination of theory and its use in practice.

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Clinical Education

• We look at clinical education from a new and practical standpoint, based on the reality of delivering clinical education in modern healthcare environments.
• Focus on real-life practical teaching skills using videos of your own teaching and evaluating the teaching of others.
• Education tailored to different contexts within the clinical operating environment.
• Accredited by the Academy of Medical Educators (AoME).
• Recognised by South West Deanery (Health Education England).

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Extreme Medicine

This is medicine at its best, crossing geographical and professional boundaries.

• You will learn the practical skills, knowledge and understanding needed to perform at the highest possible level in the field of extreme medicine.
• You will learn with and from your peers. Residentials are a key part of the programme; designed to provide the challenge of learning in an unfamiliar environment and relying on the collaboration and support of the other participants.
• Locations in the UK as well as environment-specific modules located in mountain, jungle and Polar regions.

Advanced Clinical Practice

• This programme develops the skills and expertise required to undertake skeletal image interpretation and the provision of associated definitive clinical reports.
• Modules within the programme will build on previous learning. Starting with appendicular skeleton reporting the programme then moves to consider axial skeleton reporting.
• Students will have opportunities to complete a research methodology module to equip them as comfortable research users and develop skills as researchers who add to the evidence base.

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You can contact us

www.exeter.ac.uk/medicine

Phone: +44 (0)1392 725 500

Email: medicine@exeter.ac.uk

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Any Questions?

Please do contact us.