Key facts
| Types | Online and Distance Learning
Oxford Qualification - Part-time
Professional Development
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| Start date | Sep 2013 |
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| Subject area(s) | Health
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| Fees | Please see payment section for more information |
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| Application status | Applications being accepted |
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| Course contact | If you have any questions about this course, please email pid@conted.ox.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0) 1865 286946. |
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Overview
Our Postgraduate Diploma in Paediatric Infectious Diseases,
directed by Professor Andrew Pollard
of Oxford University Department of Paediatrics, is designed to
provide a variety of different teaching methods (face-to-face
and online) directing students through the syllabus required in
the EU for clinical training in the subspecialty. The Programme
will also be appropriate for those outside the EU.
Description
The Postgraduate Diploma in Paediatric Infectious Diseases is
supported by the
European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases
(ESPID), the
Paediatric European Network for Treatment of AIDS
(PENTA), and the
IIC Course: Oxford.
Worldwide, two thirds of the deaths in children under five years
of age are caused by infectious diseases, and the prevention and
treatment of infections in children is the number one priority
for global health. Reflecting this imperative, we recognise that
investment in research and intervention programmes related to
leading causes of childhood morbidity and mortality, including
acute respiratory infections, measles, infectious diarrhoea,
malaria, HIV, and TB is vitally important. We believe that
professionally-oriented education in paediatric infectious
diseases is essential in the training of clinicians and clinical
academics who will provide the future leadership in this key area
for global health.
The Postgraduate Diploma also places the practice of paediatric
infectious diseases in the broader context of applied sciences,
such as pathogenesis, population biology and epidemiology. The
Programme focuses on clinical (applied) aspects, underpinned by
basic science to provide both breadth and depth.
Programme details
Download the Course Structure 
.
The Postgraduate Diploma in Paediatric Infectious Diseases is a
part-time two-year programme taught via a blend of online and
residential components.
Syllabus
- Infectious Syndromes
- Therapeutics and Infection Control
- Epidemiology, Immunity and Immunization
- Bacterial Infections
- Important Viral Infections and Prions
- Imported and Tropical Diseases and Mycobacterial Infection
- Congenital and Neonatal Infection, Sexually Transmitted
Disease, and Parasitic Disease
- The Immunocompromised Host
- Fungal Infection
Dates
The 2013 Paediatric Infectious Diseases Programme starts in
September 2013. The next PENTA-ESPID HIV course online
component beings in May 2013, with the residential component
taking place in October 2013. The Infection and Immunity in
Children: Oxford residential course takes place in June/July
each year.
The Postgraduate Diploma is normally completed within two
years.
The following course components can be taken before applying
for the Postgraduate Diploma and if successfully completed and
if taken within two years of starting the Postgraduate Diploma,
then these elements of the Programme requirements will normally
be dispensed: The Infection and Immunity in Children course,
which runs each summer in Oxford, and the PENTA-ESPID online and residential HIV course. For
example, the online PENTA-ESPID paediatric HIV Medicine course
starts in May each year culminating in the residential course
in October. Whether undertaken before registration for the
Postgraduate Diploma or within the two-year duration of the
Postgraduate Diploma, all components must be completed in order
to satisfy the requirements of the Postgraduate Diploma. See
the course structure above for further details.
Selection criteria
There may be specific subject requirements for your course, so do check the selection criteria below. These will be used by the University in assessing your application.
Read full selection criteriaStaff
Prof Andrew Pollard
Role: Director
Professor Andrew Pollard (BSc, MBBS, PhD London, FRCPCH) is the academic lead for the Postgraduate Diploma. He is Professor of Paediatric Infection
...more and Immunity at Oxford University and Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at the Children's Hospital, Oxford. He leads a research group (The Oxford Vaccine Group) working on clinical trials of new and improved vaccines for the prevention of infection in children and a laboratory group involved in enhancing the understanding of immunity and the development of new vaccines. He also runs a team in Nepal studying the epidemiology of infectious diseases and prevention of infection with vaccines. close
Professor Christoph Aebi
Role: Tutor
Christoph Aebi is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and Head of the Pediatric
...more Infectious Disease Division at the Children’s Hospital in Bern. He received his training in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. His main research focuses are the pathogenesis of middle ear infections, epidemiology of viral respiratory tract infections, and infections in cancer patients. He has been a Board member of ESPID since 2007 and he cares about Moraxella catarrhalis. close
Professor Andrew Cant
Role: Tutor
Professor Cant has served on the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID) education and training committees since 1999,
...more representing ESPID at the Confédération Européenne des Spécialistes en Pédiatrie (CESP), developing Europe wide training programmes in paediatric infectious diseases and immunology that were recently ratified by the European Medical Union. He was elected President of ESPID, taking up office in May 2006. From 2000 to 2004 he was chairman of the bone marrow transplant working party of the European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID); collating and presenting data on our Europe wide results of BMT for immunodeficiency. He is currently chairman of the ESID educational working party. close
Dr Julia Clark
Role: Tutor
Julia is a consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases in the Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia. She moved there in Jan 2012 from
...more Newcastle Upon Tyne where she was a consultant for 12 years. After graduation from Nottingham University and a surgical house job on the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides, she went into paediatrics trying Manchester, London, Australia then Newcastle. She has clinical interests in infection in the immunocompromised child, mycobacteria, bone and joint infections and antimicrobial stewardship. Research interests include epidemiology and aetiology of pneumonia and cCMV. Julia is highly involved in training and education in Paediatric Infectious Disease. close
Professor Nigel Curtis
Role: Tutor
Nigel Curtis, FRCPCH PhD, is Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne; Head of the Paediatric Infectious Diseases
...more Unit at the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne; and Joint Leader of the Microbiology & Infectious Diseases Group in the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. He obtained his medical degree at Cambridge University and St Mary's Hospital Medical School, University of London and trained in Paediatric Infectious Diseases in the Department of Paediatrics at Imperial College School of Medicine at St Mary's, London and British Columbia's Children's Hospital in Vancouver. Current research activities include the investigation of host-pathogen interactions in severe staphylococcal and streptococcal disease, particularly superantigen-mediated diseases, and DNA microarray-based studies of gene expression in acute rheumatic fever and tuberculosis. close
Dr Graham Davies
Role: Tutor
Dr Graham Davies is a Consultant Paediatric Immunologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and an Honorary Reader at the Molecular Immunology Unit,
...more Institute of Child Health, London. Graham is Chair of the Specialist Advisory Committee (CSAC) of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, on Training in Paediatric Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Allergy, and Chair of the Research Governance Advisory Committee, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Institute of Child Health. He is principal investigator of the following studies: UK Database for severe primary immunodeficiency disorders in children to include transfer of data to the European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID) patient database; Thymic transplantation for complete DiGeorge Syndrome; and Screening for asymptomatic Cryptosporidium carriage in highly susceptible children using immuno-magnetic separation. close
Professor Ronald de Groot
Role: Tutor
Ronald de Groot studied medicine in Rotterdam, followed by a residency in Gynecology/Obstetrics and Surgery as a preparation for a period as Senior
...more Medical Officer in Zonkwa Hospital, Nigeria. He subsequently did his pediatric training in Rotterdam, became chief resident followed by a research fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases in the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. In 1988 he returned to the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and became, in 1998, head of the training program and Professor in Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology. He is now head of the Department of Paediatrics of the University Medical Centre Nijmegen.
His research activities cover several themes including the study of respiratory tract infections, the molecular pathogenesis of infections by S. pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis and HIV and clinical and translational research in children with immunodeficiencies. close
Professor Simon Dobson
Role: Tutor
Simon Dobson is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia and an attending physician in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at
...more BC’s Children’s Hospital, Vancouver. He trained in Pediatrics in the United Kingdom and in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. His current research interests are clinical vaccine trials, especially in the pre-teen and adolescent age group, and vaccine adverse events. He works at the Vaccine Evaluation Center, BC’s Children’s Hospital and is a member of the National Advisory Committee of Immunization. close
Dr Susanna Esposito
Role: Tutor
Professor Susanna Esposito is based at the Paediatric Department of the Fondazione IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli e Regina Elena,
...more in Italy. At the Fondazione IRCCS she is Director of the Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Vice-Director of the Paediatric Department, and Chief of the outpatient clinic for travel medicine. She is also Chief of the paediatric HIV clinic at Regione Lombardia, and an Associate Professor in paediatrics at the Institute of Paediatrics, University of Milan.
Her interests are in: infections of the upper and lower airways; vaccine and preventive paediatrics; methods of rationalising antibiotic therapy; HIV infection and emerging infections.
Professor Esposito is a member of the Italian Society of Paediatrics; the Italian Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases; the International AIDS Society; the European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases; the American Society for Microbiology and the Italian Society for Preventive and Social Paediatrics.
Professor Esposito is currently a Vice-President of the Italian Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases. She is also involved in a number of Italian national committees including: the Steering Committee on Vaccines of the Italian Society of Allergy and Immunology; and the Secretariat of the Steering Committee of the Italian Society for Preventive and Social Paediatrics. close
Dr Saul Faust
Role: Tutor
Saul N Faust is Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology and Director of the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility at the
...more University of Southampton. As an MRC Clinical Training Fellow in Paediatric Intensive Care and Infectious Diseases and then Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London, he completed his PhD on the pathophysiology of coagulation abnormalities in meningococcal sepsis, work that led directly to clinical trials in paediatric intensive care. Current projects include work to bridge the clinical-laboratory interface in paediatric infectious diseases, immunology and respiratory medicine (including biofilm-related clinical diseases), developing local and national collaborative clinical trials in paediatric infectious diseases, and conducting paediatric and adult vaccine trials as part of the UK academic paediatric vaccine group. Saul is currently Chair of the UK NIHR Medicines for Children Clinical Speciality Group for Allergy, Infectious Diseases and Immunity. close
Professor Adam Finn
Role: Tutor
Adam Finn works at the University of Bristol and the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. He leads the South West Regional Clinical Service for
...more children with HIV and the Bristol paediatric immunology service. He is director of the South West Local Research network for Medicines for Children. He has an interest in the mucosal immunology of pneumococcal infection. close
Professor Carlo Giaquinto
Role: Tutor
Dr Carlo Giaquinto is based in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Padua where he is an Adjunct Professor, teaching medical students
...more and postgraduates, and also works in the paediatrics specialisation school. He is co-ordinator of the Paediatric AIDS Referral Centre at the University. Dr Giaquinto teaches on the postgraduate course in paediatric immunology and allergology at the University of Perugia. Since 2002 he has been an honorary senior lecturer at the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Institute of Child Health, University College London.
Since 1993 Dr Giaquinto has been Chairman and Project leader of the Paediatric European Network for the Treatment of AIDS (PENTA). PENTA has established a network of more than 80 clinical centres and research laboratories, in 13 countries, to recruit and follow-up HIV infected children in clinical trials to Good Clinical Practice (GCP) standards.
Dr Giaquinto is also involved in a number of committees and projects. He is a founder member and trustee of the European Forum for HIV positive children and their families, and a co-ordinator of the project Sunflower Smile Day Clinic Network in Romania, which focuses on delivering multidisciplinary care and support to HIV / AIDS children and their families. National projects include leader of research (epidemiological, clinical and social-science) projects financed by the Italian Institute of Health / Ministry of Health, and scientific co-ordinator of the Fondazione Moschino, Progetto SMILE.
Dr Giaquinto is a member of the International AIDS Society, the European Society of Paediatric Infectious Disease, and the National Association to fight AIDS (ANLAIDS). close
Dr Paul Heath
Role: Tutor
Paul Heath is a Reader / Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at St George's, University of London and Vaccine Institute in London.
...more His training in paediatrics and infectious diseases was at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and St George's Hospital, London. His particular research interests are in the epidemiology of vaccine preventable diseases, in clinical vaccine trials, particularly in at-risk groups, and in perinatal infections. close
Dr Laura Jones
Role: Tutor
Dr Laura Jones is a Consultant Paediatrician at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, where she specialises in infectious diseases and
...more immunology. She graduated from, and completed her research at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and also trained at St George’s Hospital, London. Laura’s research has included paediatric influenza and meningitis and Chronic Granulomatous Disease. close
Dr Dominic Kelly
Role: Tutor
Dr. Kelly is a BRC funded consultant in paediatrics and vaccinology. He divides his time between working in general paediatrics and paediatric
...more infectious disease at the Children’s Hospital in Oxford and vaccine related research within the Oxford Vaccine Group. His research interests are centred around vaccines and vaccine preventable disease in childhood and include the immunology of B-cell responses to vaccines in childhood, B-cell receptor genetics as a tool for understanding immune responses, pneumococcal conjugate vaccines and the epidemiology of invasive bacterial disease and pneumonia in Nepal. close
Professor Simon Kroll
Role: Tutor
Professor Simon Kroll (FMedSci, FRCP, FRCPCH) is Professor of Paediatrics and Molecular Infectious Diseases at Imperial College London and Honorary
...more Consultant Paediatrician at St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. With Professor Paul Langford he leads the Molecular Infectious Diseases research group working in the area of bacterial research and vaccine discovery, focused on major bacterial pathogens causing life-threatening infections in previously healthy children. close
Dr Hermione Lyall
Role: Tutor
Dr Hermione Lyall is Honorary Senior Lecturer at St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College London. She is Chair of the Children’s HIV Association (CHIVA).
...more CHIVA supports health professionals in the UK working with children with HIV, with the aim of improving the care for families and children with HIV. Dr Lyall is a member of the steering committee of PENTA (Paediatric European Network for the Treatment of AIDS) and Chair of training for PENTA, training clinicians who care for children with HIV in Europe and Africa. close
Professor Jussi Mertsola
Role: Tutor
Jussi Mertsola has worked as a Professor of Paediatrics at the Turku University Hospital, Finland, since 2001. He made his medical thesis in 1985
...more about serology and epidemiology of pertussis and specialized in Paediatrics in 1987. After that he did research and was in training of PID in The University of Texas Medical Center at Dallas Southwestern Medical School in 1988-1990 in the group of McCracken and Nelson. He was specialized in Paediatric Infectious Diseases in 1993. He is the Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Vaccination in Finland. He has worked in the Boards of Finnish Pediatric Society and European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID) and chaired the Educational Committees of both these Societies. He has been a member of ESPID since 1983 and initiated ESPID Case Rounds and Tr@inforPedHIV with PENTA and Carlo Giaquinto. Jussi Mertsola is interested in paediatric respiratory infections and especially in pertussis. With Qiushui he is chairing the European EUpertstrain group studying the evolution of B.pertussis organisms and epidemiology of pertussis in Europe. close
Professor Richard Moxon
Role: Tutor
Richard Moxon is Action Research Professor of Paediatrics in the Medical Sciences Division and a Professorial Fellow of Jesus College at the
...more University of Oxford. He has been Head of the Molecular Infectious Diseases Group in the Weatherall Institute of Medicine (1988-2008) and founded the Oxford Vaccine Group in 1993, a vaccine clinical trials unit now based in the Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine. As a specialist in paediatric infectious diseases, he has been an honorary consultant in the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital Trust since 1984. He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1968 and was elected a Fellow in 1984. He was one of the founding Fellows of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007. His major research interests have been on the pathogenesis and prevention of sepsis and meningitis caused by the bacteria Haemophilus influenzae and Neisseria meningitidis. close
Dr Stéphane Paulus
Role: Tutor
Stéphane Paulus is a consultant in Infectious Diseases & Immunology at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, UK and Honorary Senior lecturer at
...more the Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool. He qualified in medicine at the University of Louvain, Belgium, and completed general paediatric training in the US and the UK. Stéphane trained in paediatric infectious diseases at the British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada and at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. His main interests are antimicrobial therapy, infection control and infectious complications in oncology. close
Dr Andrew Prendergast
Role: Tutor
Dr Andrew Prendergast is a Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Infection and Immunity at Queen Mary, University of London. He trained in paediatric
...more immunology and infectious diseases in London and Oxford, and undertook a DPhil in Philip Goulder's laboratory on paediatric HIV immunology. He is currently funded by the Wellcome Trust and is based full-time in Zimbabwe, where he is researching the role of microbial translocation in malnutrition and HIV in African infants. He also works on large pragmatic HIV trials in Africa through the MRC Clinical Trials Unit. close
Dr Andrew Riordan
Role: Tutor
Andrew is a consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, and an Honorary Lecturer at the University
...more of Liverpool. He has been Associate Editor of Archives of Disease in Childhood since 2007 and has been on the Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation since 2008. Andrew’s research is mainly on meningococcal disease. close
Dr Shelley Segal
Role: Tutor
Shelley Segal is a Consultant Paediatrician at the Children's Hospital in Oxford. She has a subspeciality interest in Infectious disease and
...more Immunology. Her research projects and interests include genetic susceptibility to infectious disease, infection control, antimicrobial use and paediatric HIV. close
Dr Fiona Shackley
Role: Tutor
Dr Fiona Shackley is a Consultant Paediatrician with an interest in immunology and infectious diseases, at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. She has
...more done most of her training in Scotland, Sheffield and Toronto, and has been a Research Fellow at Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford. close
Professor Mike Sharland
Role: Tutor
Professor Mike Sharland is the Lead Consultant Paediatrician at St George’s Hospital and Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases at St George’s
...more Hospital Medical School. He has extensive experience in clinical undergraduate teaching and is the lead examiner for the MRCPH examination at St George’s. He has a major role in developing postgraduate teaching in paediatric infectious diseases (PID) in the UK, and runs run a formal programme of postgraduate PID teaching at St George’s Hospital (one of only four RCPCH accredited centres for PID teaching in the UK).
Mike’s principle research interest remains the area of optimising the best use for antimicrobials in children. I have a long standing interest in the development and best use of paediatric antimicrobials including antibiotics, antivirals and antifungals. He set up, and now Chairs, the Collaborative HIV Paediatric Study based at the MRC which collects antiviral drug use, outcome and toxicity data for all children with HIV in the UK – around 1000 children (www.chipscohort.ac.uk).
Mike is an adjudicator and assessor for national and international conferences, including the World AIDS Conference and ESPID. He is also a referee and reviewer for many journals including the Journal of Infectious Diseases, AIDS, Infection and Immunity, Archives of Disease in Childhood, and the Journal of Infection. He also undertakes peer review for Regional NHS R and D, NHS regional audit office, British Lung Foundation and Action Research. Mike has been the Associate Editor for Infectious Diseases for Archives of Disease in Childhood since 2002. close
Dr Delane Shingadia
Role: Tutor
Dr Delane Shingadia is a Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute
...more of Child Health. Dr. Shingadia has expertise in the management of a variety of paediatric infectious diseases, including HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. He was the RCPCH representative for the NICE TB guidelines as well as the paediatric representative on the Joint Tuberculosis Committee of the British Thoracic Society. His research interests including infectious diseases epidemiology, infection and immigration and infection in immunocompromised children. He has just completed a national TB surveillance study through the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit. close
Professor Vytautas Usonis
Role: Tutor
Professor Vytautas Usonis has been Head of the Vilnius University Centre of Paediatrics since 2002. At Vilnius University, he is a leading professor
...more for the paediatric infectious diseases course for undergraduate medical students and postgraduate physicians, and also for the vaccinology course for postgraduate physicians. Professor Usonis is also the Principal Investigator for clinical studies, in the area of child and adult vaccination. He is a regular speaker / lecturer at many national training and scientific events. Professor Usonis is a member of the Committee for Education for the European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID) and was a board member from 2005 - 2008. He is a member of the European Academy of Paediatrics (CESP) and an expert on vaccine-related issues at the European Disease Control Centre (ECDC). In Lithuania he is the Chairman of the National Committee for Poliomyelitis Eradication Certification. He is Vice-President and a board member of the Lithuanian Paediatric Society (LPS), and is chairman of the LPS Committee on immunisation. He was President of the Society from 2000 - 2007. He is a board member on the National Board of Immunisation of Lithuania. Professor Usonis is a member of international vaccination advisory and working groups, and is on the editorial board of several national and international scientific journals. close
Course aims
Download the Course Brochure .
The Programme will provide students with:
- Knowledge and critical understanding of the
well-established principles of paediatric infectious diseases,
and of the way in which those principles have developed
- An ability to apply underlying concepts and principles
outside the context in which they were first studied,
including, where appropriate, the application of those
principles the real world of paediatrics
- Knowledge of the main methods of enquiry in the paediatric
infectious diseases and ability to evaluate critically the
appropriateness of different approaches to solving problems
- An understanding of the limits of your knowledge, and how
this influences analyses and interpretations based on that
knowledge
At the end of the Programme students will know and understand
how to:
- Use your broad knowledge of paediatric infectious disease
in your practice and have learnt where to find the necessary
resources when you have reached your limit of knowledge
- Understand how to find evidence-based information to
facilitate rational decision making in diagnosis and management
of children with infection
- Effectively communicate information, arguments, and
analysis about paediatric infection, in a variety of forms, to
specialist and non-specialist audiences
- Undertake further training, develop existing skills, and
acquire new competences that will enable you to assume
significant responsibility within organisations
- Qualities and transferable skills necessary for your future
career in paediatrics and infectious diseases
Assessment methods
Assessment is via "formative elements" (online case rounds and
discussions and multiple choice sessions) and "summative
elements" (including assignments, a dissertation, and
examination).
Formative elements:
- Online Case Rounds: at least seven ESPID case rounds over
two years.
- Online Case Discussions in paediatric HIV medicine
(Tr@inforPedHIV): actively participate in one four-week session
over two years.
- Online multiple choice sessions: at least six sessions over
two years.
Summative elements:
Year 1: A written assignment consisting of either:
- An audit of clinical practice in paediatric infectious
disease of no more than 4000 words; or
- A case study and literature review of no more than 4000
words; and
- A short oral presentation.
Year 2: A written assignment consisting of either:
- A dissertation in an area of special interest of no more
than 8000 words; or
- A project report describing a research study in the field
of paediatric infectious diseases undertaken by the candidate
of no more than 8000 words written in the style of a scientific
paper with abstract, introduction/background, methods, results
and conclusions; and
- An examination consisting of multiple choice questions in
paediatric infectious diseases.
Recommended reading
The core textbook for the Programme are:
- Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Eds: Long, S., Pickering, LK., and Prober, CG. 3rd Edition. 2008. Churchill Livingstone.
- Evidence-Based Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Isaacs, D. 1st Edition. 2007. WileyBlackwell.
Teaching methods
There are three main teaching elements to the Programme:
- A two-year online course in Paediatric Infectious Diseases
which covers the full syllabus outlined above with online tutor
support and student discussion forums
- Two residential courses in Oxford: Infection and
Immunity in Children.
- A PENTA_ESPID online course (information about 2010):
Training for Paediatric HIV in Europe (paediatric HIV
medicine) followed by a PENTA_ESPID residential course in
Rome: Training for Paediatric HIV in Europe (paediatric HIV
medicine).
Accommodation
Accommodation is available at the Rewley House
Residential Centre, within the Department for Continuing
Education, in central Oxford. The comfortable, en-suite,
study-bedrooms are rated 3-star, and come with free high-speed
internet access and TV. Guests can take advantage of the
excellent dining facilities and common room bar, where they may
relax and network with others on the programme.
Payment
The fees for 2013/14 are:
- Home/EU Student = £8,450 (£4,225 pa)
- Overseas Students = £13,860 (£6,930 pa)
Note that these are the total fees, but all successful
Home/EU applicants are awarded a bursary towards their attendance
at the Oxford Residential Course and the PENTA-ESPID HIV course
of £3,500 (£1,750 pa), which means that the fees we charge to
Home/EU students are £4,950 (£2,475 pa). Students are then
required to pay separately for attendance at the Oxford
Residential Course and the PENTA-ESPID HIV course directly to
those course organisers.
We also encourage students to become members of ESPID.
All fees are subject to change.
Scholarships
ESPID Bursary Application Form 2012 update .
Scholarship information for entry in 2013/14 will be
confirmed in due course
The ESPID Bursary has been created through a generous donation
from ESPID (European Society of Paediatric Infectious
Diseases), to help towards university fees for students from
lower-resourced countries¹. ESPID exists to promote the
exchange of information among people who have special
experience in the field of paediatric infectious diseases
(PID). The Society promotes research and training in PID.
There are normally three awards available. Two overseas
bursaries valued at £4,300 each, and one EU bursary valued at
£1,200. These bursaries will go towards university fees and
will be divided over the two years of study.
Eligibility
Overseas bursary:
- Applicants must begin their first year of study in
September 2012
- Applicants must be a member of ESPID
- Applicants' nationality and domicile² must be a developing
country
- Preference will be given to applicants who are from
conutries with lower national incomes¹
EU bursary:
- Applicants must begin their first year of study in
September 2012
- Applicants must be a member of ESPID
- Applicants' nationality and domicile must normally be from
one of the following countries - Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania,
or Romania to whom priority will be given (in exceptional cases
other EU nationals may be considered, but the number of awards
is very limited)
How to apply
Please click on the link above to access the application form
for the bursary. We ask you to please read the instructions on
the application form carefully.
Applicants may apply for the bursary in advance of being
accepted on the Postgraduate Diploma in Paediatric Infectious
Diseases, however, if you are not accepted or your application
for the Programme does not reach us by the deadline, your
application for the bursary will be revoked. Further
information on applying can be found via the application form.
Completed applications must be received by 12 noon on Friday 10
August 2012 (BST). Late applications will not be accepted under
any circumstances.
¹ In accordance to the World Bank list of economies - November
2011(www.worldbank.org)
² In accordance to the University guidelines (
www.ox.ac.uk/feesandfunding/fees/information/feestatus/)
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