Medical and Dental Education

Entry requirements

See our website for details.

Months of entry

January, October, July, April

Course content

Postgraduate Medical & Dental Education undertakes and supports a range of educational research and evaluation activity in the healthcare professions, particularly medicine and dentistry.

Projects at Master and Doctoral level are supervised by members of the academic team encompassing a range of research studies. Projects frequently inform innovations in local practise. Some examples include:

• Evaluating broad based training initiative in England
• Learning needs of junior doctors, trainer and trainee attitudes towards work-place based assessments
• Contextualising curriculum planning for dental education in developing countries
• Features that core medical trainees value in a clinical placement
• The Cardiff Unit for Research and Evaluation in Medical and Dental Education (CUREMeDE) is a collaborative development between the School of Social Sciences and the School of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education.

Qualification and course duration

PhD

MPhil