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MBBS Teaching

QMUL MBBS education

Based at the William Harvey Research Institute, founded by Nobel prize-winning pharmacologist, John Vane, we take great pride in pharmacology and clinical pharmacology education at CPPM. 

 MBBS Undergraduate – CPPM activities

  • MBBS Clinical Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Prescribing (CPT) education: leadership of interprofessional, multi-disciplinary CPT education for 1200+ students in London and Malta enrolled in the senior years of the QMUL MBBS programme.
  • MBBS Student Selected Components (SSCs): Supervision of students undertaking literature appraisal and research SSCs during MBBS.
  • Academic Advisors: Provision of educational and pastoral support for students throughout MBBS.
  • MBBS objective structure clinical examination (OSCE) examiners and facilitators
  • Problem Based Learning (PBL): facilitation for student groups in early MBBS years.
  • MBBS assessments: Creation, development and delivery of written and clinical examinations throughout the senior years of MBBS.
  • MBBS governance: CPPM academics are Principal Internal Examiners in MBBS Finals Examinations, members of the Medical Assessment Committee, Staff Student Liaison Committee, Year Working Groups, and MBBS Examination Boards.
  • Medical Schools Council (MSC): membership of MSC Assessment Alliance work-groups responsible for medical student assessment nationally, e.g., the Prescribing Safety Assessment. For more information visit www.medschools.ac.uk.

MBBS Postgraduate training – CPPM activities 

CPPM is home of one of the fastest growing academic research departments for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

  • Clinical and research supervision for medical registrars undertaking Higher Speciality Clinical training (ST4 level onwards) in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics: We have two National Training Number (NTN) vacancies; these positions provide protected research time in addition to the clinical training. CPPM senior clinicians contribute to Health Education England panels conducting Annual Review of Competency Progression (ARCP) assessments for doctors in postgraduate training

For more information: www.phstrecruitment.org.uk/specialties/clinical-pharmacology; www.thefederation.uk/training/specialties/clinical-pharmacology-and-therapeutics; www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/annual-review-competency-progression

  • Specialised Foundation Programme and Academic Clinical Fellowship positions: Established interdisciplinary research programmes within CPPM permit clinical  trainees to join groups that include clinical scientists and triallists, statistical geneticists, molecular biologists, epidemiologists, statisticians, bioinformaticians, clinicians and basic scientists.

For more information: Specialised Foundation Programme (SFP); https://london.hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/2023_london_suoa_sfp_applicant_guide_-_v1.pdf; Academic Clinical Fellow; 2025 Academic Clinical Fellowships in Medicine (NIHR)

  • Clinical and academic research opportunities for short projects are also available to those who are undertaking internal medicine training (IMT) schemes, are specialist registrars (SpRs) in other specialities and /or are fellows visiting from EU and other non-EU countries.
  • Clinical PhD Opportunity: CPPM offers excellent opportunities for the clinical research in various areas that the faculty involved in and beyond. They are not limited to cardiovascular pharmacology, clinical pharmacotherapeutics, inflammation, pharmacogenomics, genomics, inflammation, bio-informatics and others. For the clinical PhD please the following sites for further information.

For more information: www.qmul.ac.uk/whri/study-with-us/postgraduate-research; www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/doctoral-fellowship; www.ukri.org/opportunity/clinical-research-training-fellowship-crtf-mrc  

  • Academic Clinical Lecturers (ACL) and Clinician Scientist positions: CPPM supports training and further development as independent researchers for those who apply for ACL. The natural career progression thereafter is toward an academic or clinician scientist position. These programmes are typically funded through initiatives including National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), British Heart Foundation (BHF) and Medical Research Council (MRC) programs.
  • Clinical Research MRes: This MRes programme prepares clinical academic trainees for a career in academic clinical research by developing key research skills, providing training in ethics and regulation, promoting public engagement, and meeting the training requirements of major research funders. For more information visit the Clinical Research MRes coursefinder page.

 

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