Overview

The Clinical Research, Education and Leadership course from University of Cambridge is open to all medical, surgical and healthcare staff and consists of modules on:

clinical research
clinical education
clinical leadership

This course is designed for doctors, dentists, nurses, veterinary surgeons and allied health professionals.

Key facts:

All parts of the course (the postgraduate certificate, the postgraduate diploma, and the Master of Studies) are delivered with the following overarching educational aims to:

provide professionally relevant teaching and learning informed by research in an integrated clinical and teaching environment.
create an international cohort of healthcare professionals able to pursue and develop their roles in a rapidly-changing and challenging environment of clinical medicine.
develop the confidence within this cohort to lead service improvement for safe and high-quality patient care, with the required knowledge, skills and capability to have a positive personal impact on the work of others in their clinical team and wider service.
develop clinicians with an understanding of teaching, professional development and assessment in the field of clinical medicine.
develop clinicians with an understanding of research methodologies and ethical considerations relevant to clinical medicine.
encourage participants to develop as reflective practitioners with the emotional intelligence, resilience and astuteness required to be effective clinical leaders.
encourage a commitment to intellectual challenge and evidence-based clinical practice informed by the latest conceptual and theoretical knowledge of clinical education, research methods, ethics and clinical leadership and governance.

Programme Structure

Curriculum:

Clinical Leadership in the NHS

Self-awareness and personal leadership qualities

Project/change management theories and practice

The impact of effective leadership within the clinical arena and how to enhance leadership. Leadership resilience strategies

Teams: An evidence-based approach to people management and developing high-performing teams

Rescuing failing teams, managing difficult behaviour

Improvement, strategic development, business planning & marketing

Presenting projects, change management, organisational theory. Change within large organisations – the NHS, learning from other industries

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 9 months
- Flexible

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-10-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-05-28 00:00:00

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

110

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IELTS

7.5

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Credits

60 alternative credits

Delivered

Blended

Campus Location

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Educational Research Health Sciences Leadership View 128 other Masters in Educational Research in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

GPA

Upper Second Class

English requirements

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110

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7.5

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Other requirements

General requirements

Applications are invited from healthcare staff including doctors, dentists, nurses and allied health professionals.

Applicants are normally expected to a hold a 2.i degree or higher from a UK university or an equivalent from an overseas university.

There is provision to accept applicants who do not satisfy the standard academic criterion. Such applicants must produce evidence of relevant and equivalent experience and their suitability for the course.

If English isn’t your first language, you will be required to submit evidence that you meet the University’s English language requirement before you are admitted.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

13728 GBP / full

≈ 13728 GBP / full
Domestic Applies to you

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Citizens or residents

6864 GBP / full

≈ 6864 GBP / full

Living costs

Cambridge

United Kingdom

846 - 1465 GBP / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

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