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.
What are my study options?
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:
> 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.
Meet our students
"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
Contact us
Email: cpdhealth@conted.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1865 270453
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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.
Applicant advice and student life
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
Find out more about our courses
The Masters to DPhil journey
What are they core differences between studying for a Masters programme in evidence-based health care and studying for the DPhil in in evidence-based health care? What are the benefits to completing both?
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.
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.
Tutor expertise: research and supervision
Not only do our tutors deliver gold-standard teaching across the postgraduate programme in Evidence-Based Health Care, but they also have significant expertise in conducting and disseminating research across a broad range of health-related themes, expertly positioning them to deliver unrivalled student supervision.
Our students often have interests in specific health-related research themes and methodologies and we are keen to ensure they'll be given the right platform to pursue those interests, and in expert hands. That's why alongside teaching, many of our tutors are supervising student projects within the EBHC Masters and DPhil programmes, to offer additional support in areas of research where their interests and expertise lie.
Meet our EBHC programme tutors at the bottom of the page, and click below for a list of core research themes covered on the EBHC programme and the tutors affiliated to each research theme.
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
Mixed methods in health care research: A Q&A with EBHC Master's student and postdoctoral researcher Karen Richmond
Karen Richmond is a postdoctoral researcher and student on the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care. As part of her studies, she completed the Mixed Methods in Health Care module. In this Q&A style blog, she reflects on how the course has expanded her methodological toolkit, enabling her to bridge qualitative and quantitative approaches in her interdisciplinary research at the intersection of law, science and technology.
Small choices, big outcomes: Alexandra Caulfield’s reflections on the Health Behaviour Change short course
Alexandra Caulfield reflects on her experience taking the Health Behaviour Change short course at Oxford, exploring how everyday health choices shape our lives and how behavioural science can be applied in primary care to support positive change.
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.