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MRes Child Health

  • DeadlineStudy Details: 1 year - 2 years

Masters Degree Description

From bioscience to clinical projects, develop your research skills in the diverse field of child health. Drawing on our links with Great Ormond Street Hospital, you will expand your scientific knowledge base, improve your ability to design experiments and gain invaluable experience through working on high impact lab-based or clinical projects. This Master’s degree will provide you with the skills you need to pursue a PhD or other scientific career.

Entry Requirements

Applicants should hold either a medical degree (MBBS) or a minimum of an upper second-class UK Bachelors degree in a relevant discipline or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. Healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotech professionals and scientists with equivalent experience (minimum of three years) and a BSc degree may also be considered.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

UCL offers a range of financial awards aimed at assisting both prospective and current students with their studies.

Student Destinations

Use this course as a springboard into doctoral study or to progress in child health in your current role. Alumni have gone onto work for organisations such as the NHS, including Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, the Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, AstraZeneca plc. and at various universities. *

Module Details

Compulsory modules

  • Research Project MRes Child Health
  • Applied Statistics for Health Research I
  • Critical Thinking and Science Communication
  • Respiration Through Life, Health and Disease
  • Clinical Applications of Cell and Gene Therapy
  • Applied Genomics
  • Molecular Aspects of Cell and Gene Therapy
  • Stem Cells and Tissue Repair
  • Applied Statistics for Health Research II
  • International Child Mental Health
  • Epidemiology for Child Health
  • Immunisation and Communicable Diseases
  • Child Public Health
  • Nutrition, Growth and Physical Activity
  • Leadership and Professional Development
  • Clinical Genomics Genetic and Rare Diseases
  • Specialist Paediatrics I
  • Specialist Paediatrics II
  • Molecular Biology of Normal Development and Birth Defects
  • Molecular and Clinical Aspects of Childhood Cancers
  • Adolescent Health Medicine
  • Evidence-based Child Health
  • Ethics and Law for Paediatrics and Child Health
  • Novel Therapies: From Concept to Clinical Translation
  • Neonatal Intensive Care
  • Practising Qualitative Research in Child and Adolescent Health

Optional modules

  • Critical Thinking and Science Communication
  • Respiration Through Life, Health and Disease
  • Clinical Applications of Cell and Gene Therapy
  • Applied Genomics
  • Molecular Aspects of Cell and Gene Therapy
  • Stem Cells and Tissue Repair
  • Applied Statistics for Health Research II
  • International Child Mental Health
  • Epidemiology for Child Health
  • Immunisation and Communicable Diseases
  • Child Public Health
  • Nutrition, Growth and Physical Activity
  • Leadership and Professional Development
  • Clinical Genomics Genetic and Rare Diseases
  • Specialist Paediatrics I
  • Specialist Paediatrics II
  • Molecular Biology of Normal Development and Birth Defects
  • Molecular and Clinical Aspects of Childhood Cancers
  • Adolescent Health Medicine
  • Evidence-based Child Health
  • Ethics and Law for Paediatrics and Child Health
  • Novel Therapies: From Concept to Clinical Translation
  • Neonatal Intensive Care
  • Practising Qualitative Research in Child and Adolescent Health
  • reasonable adjustments
  • Student Support and Wellbeing Services
  • UCL Student Support and Wellbeing Services
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  • UCL Student Support and Wellbeing Services.

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