Advanced Medical Training PG Cert at Kings College London

The PG Cert in Advanced Medical Training is a postgraduate qualification for scientists and clinicians. This advanced study course will develop participants' research and evidence-based evaluation skills in clinical practice and leadership, as well as enhance their career opportunities. Optional modules are available within four medical specialties:

• Children’s Health
• Clinical Neuroscience
• Haematology
• Women’s Health

Key Benefits

• Teaching focusing on translating research to improve clinical outcomes locally and globally.
• Access to the latest leading cutting edge technologies housed across King’s Health Partners Foundation NHS hospitals.Lectures delivered by internationally recognised researchers and clinicians covering contemporary issues.
• Lectures delivered by internationally recognised researchers and clinicians covering contemporary issues.
• The course will be beneficial to participants interested in developing a career in clinical trials, research and leadership.
• The clinical leadership module is delivered by King’s Business School, a leading management teaching institution in London, and our Partner NHS Trusts.

Description

The course is designed to provide participants with an advanced and comprehensive understanding of the theoretical and practical issues surrounding medical care within the relevant medical field of choice. The postgraduate face–to-face specialty modules will cover the most up-to- date and novel aspects of clinical care and, by successfully completing one of them, you will gain an in depth understanding of innovative care for patients in the selected field of medical expertise.

The programme is available in four different medical specialties:

• Children’s Health
• Haematology
• Women’s Health
• Clinical Neuroscience

The programme fosters the intellectual skills of participants through:

• Critical assimilation and appraisal of the research literature pertaining to the medical specialty of choice.
• Production of original pieces of written work that explain, review and evaluate primary research literature and using this evaluation to develop ideas and hypotheses.
• Understanding research governance and demonstrate compliance with research regulations.
• Understanding and applying scientific and clinical study design and statistical analysis principles.
• Recognising the ethical issues of investigations and appreciating the need for ethical standards and professional codes of conduct.
• Thinking critically about their own work/ research to input into the synthesis and design of future hypotheses and experiments.
• Using subject knowledge and understanding to explore and solve familiar and unfamiliar problems.
• Collecting, interpreting and analysing data with a critical understanding of the appropriate contexts.
• Understanding and development of clinical leadership skills through developing self- awareness: being aware of one’s own values, principles and assumptions and by being able to learn from experiences.

Career prospects

The course will prepare scientists and clinicians for clinical practice and further research in the medical specialty of choice.

Career destinations

The course will prepare scientists and clinicians for clinical practice and further research in the medical specialty of choice.