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Medical Immunology
|MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert
|Part Time
| Admissions status: ClosedNext entry 2014.
MSc Medical Immunology providing advanced training in basic and clinical immunology, including diagnostic technologies, laboratory management and research methodologies. Designed for career development in laboratory settings such as translational research; clinical practice as a Clinical Scientist; academia as a senior lecturer or professor, or as an NHS consultant.
KEY BENEFITS
- An unrivalled medical immunology training course located with good UK access and designed for clinical Specialty trainees, Grade A/B clinical scientist trainees in immunology, histocompatibility and immunogenetics, biomedical scientists, industrial partners and (overseas) research fellows.
- Teaching is research-led and delivered by academics and clinicians who are leaders in their respective fields.
KEY FACTS
Programme leader/s
Professor Mark Peakman; Dr Timothy Tree
Accreditation
Training and education is commensurate with requirements of Royal College of Pathologists, Joint Committee on Higher Medical Training, Deanery STCs, Consortia/Confederations and the Health Professions Council registration authority. Recognised as component of training programme for Trainee Clinical Scientists in Immunology by the Association of Clinical Scientists in Immunology. Individual modules may be taken for CME or CPD purposes.
Awarding institution
King's College London
Pathways
Clinical immunologist; career clinical scientist in immunology; academic immunologist; biomedical scientist.
Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent)
UK 180/ECTS 90
Duration
Two years PT, lectures one day per week, September to September.
Location
Intercollegiate programme, primarily Guy’s Campus.
Student destinations
For career development in clinical, laboratory and academic immunology, for example towards running a diagnostic service, research group or clinical practice as a Clinical Scientist, Senior Lecturers/Professors and NHS consultants.
Year of entry 2013
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