Course details

Summary

Help improve human health. Study Clinical Research and get the skills you need to carry out evidence-based research that will advance medical knowledge.

You’ll learn to use both qualitative and quantitative research methods, and find out how to critically evaluate current literature. Gain knowledge in good study design and research practice, data analysis and research presentation. You'll find out how to carry out clinical trials and cover ethical and cultural issues in clinical research.

Careers

You‘ll be able to expand your current work to include clinical research, or move into a new career as a clinical researcher in a range of areas in the health sector. You might work for a drug company, a hospital clinical trials unit or a research institute.

Take your PGDipClinRes to the next level with a Master of Clinical Research (MClinRes). You’ll complete a thesis that’s likely to include a detailed literature search around the proposed study topic, a description of the research methods you propose and some pilot results data.

If you haven’t completed the Diploma but have significant and relevant clinical research experience, you might still be admitted into the Master’s programme.

Entry criteria

• A Bachelor's degree in health, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, biomedical science or biostatistics
• To be accepted by the programme director as capable of proceeding with the proposed course of study

Other English Language requirements:

• IELTS: minimum overall score of 6.5 with no sub-score below 6.0
• TOEFL: minimum score of 90 for the internet-based test with a minimum of 20 in writing
• Pearson Test of English: minimum score of 65 (with a ‘Communicative’ score of not less than 58).