Programmes in Evidence-Based Health Care
Training and nurturing the next generation of global leaders in evidence, across a diverse range of qualifications, to inform better health care.
DPhil • MSc • PGDip • PGCert • Short Courses
"Our world-class programme of part-time graduate courses and professional short courses is designed to meet the interests and professional requirements of clinicians, scientists and researchers, working in a wide range of disciplines."
Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of CEBM
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Email: cpdhealth@conted.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1865 270453
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Learn alongside internationally recognised experts in evidence-based practice and education
Flexible, blended modes of study, designed to accommodate full-time employment
Use real-life problems from clinical practice to contextualise your learning and tailor your research
Intensive residential weeks in Oxford with interactive, problem-based learning
What are my study options?
Watch video: MSc in EBHC Teaching and Education and PGCert in Teaching Evidence-Based Health Care
Watch our short video as Course Director, Dr David Nunan, and Module Coordinator, Dr Adrian Stokes, explain what to expect on these part-time postgraduate programmes.
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DPhil
Our DPhil programmes offer an opportunity to pursue your research interests and develop your expertise in research methods, following completion of a Master’s in a related topic.
MSc
Explore the fundamental principles of evidence-based health care and research methods:
> New! MSc in EBHC Teaching and Education
> MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care
PGCert and PGDip
From critically evaluating and applying health research techniques and solutions, to learning a wide range of teaching tools and teaching styles, we have a programme to suit all health care professions:
Short courses
Any of our programme modules can be taken as ‘stand-alone’ short courses, as ‘not for credit’ professional training, academic credit, or to simply get a ‘taster’ of the award programme we offer.
New for 2022/23:
EBHC Study Routes Overview
It can be tricky for students to make sense of which modules are available on which programmes and vice versa! Therefore we've developed pages to help make the options available to you as clear as possible.
From here, you can click on each of the programmes to find out which modules are available as part of that particular programme, and click on each of the modules to find out which programmes it's affiliated with.
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Match our course options to your own career aspirations
View our list of example student pathways for each of our postgraduate courses in evidence-based health care, designed to help you make the right choices for your own personal career aspirations.
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Making your EBHC DPhil topic choices easier
We've identified a set of clusters to help shape your DPhil topic that represent the broad subject areas that we would like our students to explore, that best resonate with evidence-based health care.
Research from DPhil students in Evidence-Based Health Care
Our student research addresses critical health problems and disciplines across EBM. By facilitating the dissemination of their research, we hope to help shape the way evidence is communicated and understood.
Our students make a difference
As well as providing critical research to help shape better health care decisions, our students collate their findings into blogs to help inform and influence other students.
Blog posts
Retracted publications on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2: transparency in research
Final-year medical students, Ibrahim and Alicia, share details of their Special Studies Module (SSM) project; carried out alongside Dr. David Nunan at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine.
Sixth year primary care medical students share details of their project focusing on identifying research irregularities for systematic reviews
Sixth year primary care medical students Sarah Peters and Archie Lodge joined the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine for a three-week period as part of a special study module to improve their knowledge of evidence-based medicine. In this blog, they discuss their project, focusing on evaluating available techniques to identify research irregularities that require further scrutiny and the role they play when conducting systematic reviews.
Who are our students?
Our students come from a wide range of health care backgrounds. Here’s just a few examples:
- doctors and nurses,
- specialist registrars and trainees,
- clinical researchers,
- health information specialists and knowledge managers,
- healthcare managers and policy makers,
- medical journalists,
- professionals in the pharmaceutical and health-related industries.
Don't just take our word for it, see what our students have to say
“The Oxford EBHC programme has provided me with the tools to springboard my early career as a clinician investigator.”
Robert Baird, Canada, Student, MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care
“Oxford University and the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine provide the ‘gold standard’ of teaching and learning.”
Dr Kushal Banerjee, India, Student, MSc in EBHC
“I found so much of the MSc experience to be incredibly inspirational, motivating, enjoyable and rewarding.”
Anne Carroll, Ireland, Student, MSc in EBHC
“An excellent mix of speeches, interactive lessons, practical sessions…I can highly recommend to anyone working in healthcare.”
Lorenz Meuli, Switzerland, Student, MSc in EBHC Medical Statistics
Hear from more of our postgraduate students
Meet our tutors
Our tutors are EBM experts working as either practicing clinicians, or researchers informing public discourse and policy-making on a range of important health issues.
