Healthcare Research Skills and Methods

Entry requirements

You should normally have, or be expected to achieve, a minimum of a second class degree (2:2). For healthcare graduates a pass is required. All degrees must be awarded before 1 August on the year of entry.

Months of entry

September

Course content

This course is suitable for a wide range of healthcare professional, and is of particular relevance to doctors and allied healthcare professionals in academic training, or established clinicians who wish to develop, enhance and implement their research skills. It will also be of benefit to healthcare educators, social care practitioners and researchers.

This course covers:

• knowledge and techniques
• personal effectiveness
• engagement, influence and impact
• research governance and organisation

You will gain an excellent foundation for critically understanding and evaluating research, its design, conduct, dissemination and funding, as well as acquiring knowledge of appropriate statistical methods. And you will develop knowledge, practical skills and attitudes you need to become an effective healthcare researcher and conduct your own research.

On the Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Research Skills and Methods, you will be taught the essentials of conducting high quality research through a range of core and optional modules.

The Postgraduate Certificate consists of four modules, each worth 15 credits for a total 60 credits at level 7.

You will study three core modules (for one you choose from two options):

• Research Methods
• Statistics or Practical Data Analysis: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
• Critical Appraisal

You choose one optional module from the following list:

• Research Project Planning and Management
• Implementation and Improvement Science: Principles for Practice
• Negotiated Independent Learning

Information for international students

For information on how to apply, advice on visas and immigration and English language requirements please visit our international student support webpages.

Fees and funding

For information about tuition fees, funding and scholarships please visit our fees and funding webpages.