The University of Oxford Centre for Continuing Professional
Development has introduced an integrated postgraduate programme to provide
education and training in the principles and practices of evidence-based health
care for professionals in the NHS. The course will also be useful for those
working in health care delivery or research in a commercial environment.
The programme integrates core elements of evidence-based health care into a
coherent basis of expertise and competence in
using
and
establishing
evidence of health care effectiveness and efficiency.
Aim of the programme
It seeks to enable people to:
- Understand the principles of evidence-based health care.
- Identify, critically appraise and incorporate results of medical and social
science research into day-to-day decision making.
- Teach others how to find, appraise and implement evidence-based
research.
- Design, execute, analyse and interpret clinical trials, overviews and other
forms of health care evaluation.
- Undertake research in order to establish evidence where it is not available
or is of uncertain quality.
Structure
The Masters Programme has a layered approach with three related courses -
Certificate, Diploma, MSc as shown in the box. Certificate and Diploma courses
can be taken separately, but in order; Certificates lead to Diploma which lead to
a Master of Science degree from the University of Oxford.
Masters Programme Content
- Certificate modules:
- C1 Practice of evidence-based health care
- C2 Teaching evidence-based health care
- C3 Implementing and monitoring change in health care:
- Diploma modules:
- D1 Architecture of health research
- D2 Fundamentals of biostatistics
- D3 Research and protocol development
- Masters modules:
- M1 Elective
- M2 Elective (both from 14 topics)
- M3 Thesis (25,000 words)
Who should do it?
Graduates (or people who have completed a professional training course), with at
least five years professional work experience in health care. They should be able
to bring specific work-based problems along about which they will be seeking
evidence and be able to combine classroom learning with the application of the
principles and practices of evidence-based health care within the workplace.
The course should be appropriate for many nurses, managers, scientists and
doctors. The courses are taught in Oxford, but there are no residential
requirements that we know of.
For more detailed information, check out the website
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