Health Care Research Methods

Overview

• Learn how to take research forward in health services, academic environments, contract research organisations, or pharmaceutical industry environments
• Gain a detailed picture of the complex and inter-related activities of the development cycle, from discovery to successful commercialisation
• Gain an understanding of the regulatory framework governing good clinical research
• Learn to apply the principles that you have learnt to your professional commitments
• Develop skills in gathering, recording and communicating information

Career:

This Health Care Research Methods MSc programme will give you the academic background and specialist skills to carry out healthcare and clinical research. 

Where you'll learn

• The William Harvey Research Institute offers state-of-the art core facilities, including a Genome Centre, a flow cytometry and cell sorting station, and in vivo imaging facilities
• A Learning Resources Centre, open around the clock, with 200 networked PCs solely for the use of postgraduate students
• Medical libraries located at the Royal London and St Bart's hospitals and at the main university campus at Mile End
• Access to the Postgraduate Reading Room
• Research access to the British Library

About the Institute

William Harvey Research Institute

The William Harvey Research Institute (WHRI) places a high value upon training the next generation of researchers. We are part of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry – one of the top 10 multi-faculty research institutions in the UK (REF 2014).

Our primary research focus and excellence lies in our cardiovascular, inflammation and endocrine research themes. In addition, we achieve international excellence in critical care and perioperative medicine research. We aim to combine talents from different disciplines such as genomics, cell biology, and pharmacology, with translational bench-to-patient studies and large-scale clinical trials.

We are currently the largest pharmacological research institute in the UK University sector, and one of the largest in Europe. The Centre employs 530 clinicians and scientists from 45 countries.