Medical and healthcare

Postgraduate study in medical and healthcare.

Within the medical and healthcare sector, clinical roles always involve further training, but this does not mean that everybody undertakes a formal postgraduate qualification. In the health care profession it is very common for people to pursue further certificates and diplomas in specialist areas, for example infection control. The main benefits are that a postgraduate qualification facilitates career progression and ensures that your knowledge levels are at their optimum.

You will need a masters or PhD in order to pursue an academic or teaching career within medicine or healthcare. There are a lot of opportunities to teach within this profession as training is such a large requirement.

The options

There is an extremely wide range of programmes available in this sector, from diploma to PhD and traditional right through to alternative therapies. New areas of specialism include molecular medicine, pharmaceutical medicine and bioinformatics. Competition for places is intense: entry requirements are typically a minimum of a 2.1 at undergraduate level along with relevant experience.