Medical and health sciences

Flexible postgraduate courses and training in medicine and health

Over 90 part-time courses and training programmes in medical and health sciences, delivered through specialist departments of the University’s Medical Sciences Division. They are designed for clinicians, researchers, scientists, managers and educators working in health care provision, health administration, research organisations, pharmaceuticals, academia, and regulatory and government bodies.

Flexible postgraduate qualifications - study while working
Short training courses for professionals and online courses
Insights into the latest advances in knowledge, skills and techniques
Career-enhancing opportunities

NEW! MSc in Translational Health Sciences

This new part-time Master's programme takes an interdisciplinary and applied approach to the challenges of implementing innovations and research discoveries in a healthcare setting.

Applications for 2020 entry are now being accepted

Upcoming courses

An Introduction to Cancer Research

Short courses
Fri 24 Jan 2020 to Fri 27 Mar 2020
2:00-4:00pm 10 meetings

Cancer is a terrible word; yet our understanding of this Emperor of Maladies has never been better. Huge steps forward since 2000 lead to better versions of old ideas and intriguing new ideas. We will explore this new and more hopeful cancer landscape.

Cancer - the Potential for Immunotherapy

Short courses
Sat 01 Feb 2020
09.45 - 5.00

Our immune system is a defence against all life throws at us. It fights foreign invaders; it can also destroy sick, dying and mutated cells. So why does our immune system fail with cancer? This course will explore what goes wrong and what to do about it.

Circadian Rhythm Disruption and Sleep (Online)

Short courses, Professional development
Mon 10 Feb 2020 to 29 Mar 2020

Develop your knowledge of how to assess human circadian rhythms using subjective and objective methods, build understanding of the treatment options available for circadian rhythm disruption, and consider their mode of action.

Evidence-Based Diagnosis and Screening

Professional development
Mon 10 Feb 2020 to 14 Feb 2020

Critical appraisal and application, at an advanced level, of the best evidence on diagnostic tests.

The Painful Brain - The 17th Oxford Brain Day

Short courses
Sat 22 Feb 2020
09.15 - 17.00

The seventeenth Oxford Brain Day is devoted to pain and the brain. From phantom limb syndrome to migraines and beyond. Pain of all kinds, and its alleviation, continues to be a major focus for investigators using modern brain imaging techniques.