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Continuing Professional Development

We can support your training needs and enhance your workforce.

Our training courses provide access to a wide range of expertise. They support the continuing professional development needs of those working in:

  • life science
  • health
  • social care

They are flexible for both the learner and the employer. You can access support in a variety of ways to help them with their studies. We scrutinise each of our courses, both academically and professionally. Whether you chose to study a course that is credit bearing or not, it will add true value to your workplace.

Explore the range of short online courses offered by Newcastle University.

Module catalogue

These attendance modules require you to attend fixed (though infrequent) study days at the University campus. Some modules run more than once in a year and where this applies, you should choose the link for the semester in which you would like to study.

Semester 1 begins at the end of September. Semester 2 begins at the end of January. Semester 3 begins in mid-June. We list exact semester dates on the University Calendar.

HE Short Course – Digital Healthcare (Health Informatics)

Higher Education Short Courses offers students greater choice in how you study, with flexible options to develop your skills. Newcastle University is one of the first providers to offer an exciting new short course in Digital Healthcare. Our curriculum draws on our significant expertise in industry-academic co-development of data science and clinical education. This flexible pathway will be available to all healthcare workers, at all career stages. You’ll learn using ‘real-world’ case studies developed with our, NHS partners and clinical teaching team, who have over 20 years’ experience of teaching clinical programmes flexibly and  online.

Modules

This short course consists of two 20 credit modules at level six, that you can study over one or two academic years, giving you the flexibility to study around your work at a pace that works for you 

Module 1: Foundational data science literacy for healthcare

Data science literacy is a fundamental requirement for any healthcare practitioner in a modern healthcare setting. Foundational data science training brings significant potential to close the gap in technical understanding required to translate data and AI, into clinical value, to develop a culture of trust in the use of data and provide guidance on developing capacity in data science and AI. Our training will empower you to identify real opportunities and gaps and offers practical guidance to support your role in the governance of these systems.

Module 2: Applied Data Science for Healthcare

You’ll learn to engage with the various modalities of data found in healthcare, including structured (e.g. tabular, relational), unstructured (e.g. image, video and audio) data. The module will support you to acquire and apply specialised data science techniques in a range of healthcare scenarios. This will include no- and low-code solutions as well as gaining exposure to programmatic approaches to tackling these challenges. 

If you would like more information please get in touch via email study.medicalsciences@newcastle.ac.uk. 

How to apply

Please fill in the HE Short Course Application Form and return via email to study.medicalsciences@newcastle.ac.uk 

Modules in Public Health and Health Services Research

Running in Semester 1 (end of September)

 

Running in Semester 2 (end of January)

Get in touch 

If you have a question about these courses email the team pghealth@newcastle.ac.uk

For further details and information on how to apply please visit Public Health and Health Services Research MSc, PGDip, PGCert

Modules in Clinical Health Science and Clinical Research

Clinical Research with Older People (E-learning CHS8007)

Allergy (E-learning CHS8005)

Integrity, Infrastructure and Information Governance in Healthcare Research (E-learning MCR8009) 

Study Design, Data Management and Communication of Clinical Research: Doing Clinical Research Well (E-learning MCR8010)

Writing in a Research Setting (E-learning MCR8011)

Designing a Research Proposal (E-learning MCR8013)

Clinical Trials (E-learning MCR8015)

Clinical Research Statistics (E-learning MCR8019)

Qualitative Research (E-Learning MCR8033)

Introduction to Qualitative Research (E-learning MCR8034)

 

Get in touch

If you have a question about these courses email the team epgclinres@newcastle.ac.uk

For further details and information on how to apply please visit Clinical Research MClinRes, PGDip, PGCert

Modules in Oncology and Palliative Care

Running in Semester 1 (end of September)

Running in Semester 2 (end of January)

Both semesters: E-Learning: Clinical Research Statistics (MCR8019)

Get in touch

Explore our training in oncology and palliative care training.

If you have a question about these courses email the team oncpall@newcastle.ac.uk

For further details and information on how to apply please visit Oncology MSc, PGDip, PGCert Programme

Short courses

Introduction to Practical Bioinformatics

This intensive two-day course aims to introduce scientists to the command-line interface and the R programming environment. We start from the basics without assuming any prior knowledge. It introduces; the Linux command-line, command-line BLAST and shell scripting. Includes data handling in the R statistical programming environment.
Contact: bsu-support@newcastle.ac.uk

RNA-Seq Data Analysis

This one-day course covers important aspects of Bioinformatics and the analysis of high-throughput sequencing data. We work though an RNA-Seq Analysis using the popular DESeq2 package for differential gene expression analysis. Contact: bsu-support@newcastle.ac.uk

Introduction to Marker Gene Sequencing (16S, 18S, ITS)

This is a two-day course that demonstrates a typical workflow for microbial marker gene (16S, 18S, and ITS) sequencing analysis, from raw FASTQ files to a wide range of plots, tables, and statistics. The course aims to teach attendees how to use the most appropriate tools for their analysis, and write their own pipeline for marker gene analysis. The primary goal of this course is not only to equip attendees with the coding skills required for their analysis, but to explain the principles behind the tools and methods.
Contact: bsu-support@newcastle.ac.uk

Home Office Licensee Training and Laboratory Animal Specialist Courses

The Comparative Biology Centre offer modules for PIL A, B, C and PPL applicants and a variety of other specialist short courses. Courses run all year round, please get in touch for further information.
Contact: cbc-office@ncl.ac.uk

An Introduction to Policy Evaluation for Public Health

This course introduces statistical techniques to evaluate public health interventions and policy. It will outline how to interpret statistical results and questions to ask yourself when reading public health papers, highlight key datasets available to evaluate public health policy and interventions, and examine three different estimation techniques that can be used for policy evaluation.
Contact: heather.brown@newcastle.ac.uk

Children’s Allergy Webinars

These free webinars are aimed at healthcare professionals in both primary and secondary care who see children with allergy or have an interest in allergic conditions. Upcoming topics include cow’s milk allergy, season allergic rhinitis and allergic asthma, allergic skin disease and venom allergy.
Contact: childrensallergy@nuth.nhs.uk or cpdsupport@newcastle.ac.uk

Bespoke courses

We can create bespoke training to meet your staff’s specific needs, including:

Get in touch

To discuss a bespoke course please get in touch:

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 3246 

Email: business@newcastle.ac.uk

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