Apologies for cross-posting.
Oxford University's forthcoming CPD courses, conferences and workshops -
designed for Health Sciences Professionals.
You can download our Health Sciences brochure at
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/files/07_HS_Brochure.pdf
<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/files/07_HS_Brochure.pdf>
Workshops:
Qualitative Systematic Reviews in Health & Social Care: 2-day workshop.
Dates: July 26-27th 2007
Venue: Oxford University
This developmental workshop will be participatory with speakers and
participants sharing experiences.
The cost is £750 (£450 for day 1, £300 for day 2) including all course
materials, refreshments, lunch and a workshop dinner first evening.
Programme topics include:
* The Qualitative Systematic Review Process through the eyes of
EPPI-Reviewer
James Thomas
* Qualitative Searching Skills for Beginners
Chris Carroll
* Overview: Current issues and controversies in Qualitative
Systematic Review Methods
Andrew Booth
* The state of the art of synthesis: some reflections on methods for
synthesising qualitative and quantitative evidence
Catherine Pope
* Conducting a meta-ethnography of qualitative tuberculosis
treatment adherence studies: a reflection on the process
Simon Lewin
* Qualitative Searching Skills for the More Experienced
Andrew Booth & Chris Carroll
* The place of synthesis in policy and decision making
Facilitator: Catherine Pope
* Decision-making regarding total knee replacement surgery: a
qualitative meta-synthesis.
Tracey O'Neill
* Synthesising the Literature [Practical Session]
Facilitators: Andrew Booth & Chris Carroll
Full details can be found at
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/CPD/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/QSR
<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/CPD/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/QSR>
and a registration form can be downloaded from
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/CPD/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/QSR/register.as
p
<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/CPD/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/QSR/reg
ister.asp> .
Conferences:
Oxford Psychiatry Conference 2007
Dates: 16-18th Sep 2007
Venue: St Catherine's College, Oxford University
Starting in the evening of September 16th, this prestigious conference is
primarily intended for psychiatrists who have an interest in the very latest
research advances, in their application to high quality clinical practice,
and in sampling the experience of Oxford's unique academic environment. It
is also highly appropriate for anyone, such as commercial representatives,
who is seeking to understand psychiatric practice that is grounded in
science of the highest quality.
Details, and a registration form, can be found at
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/events/psychiatry2007
<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/events/psychiatry2007> .
The 2nd Oxford Health & Homelessness Conference 2007
Date: 25th Sep 07
Venue: Oxford University
Delegate fee: £150 (accommodation and pre-conference dinner
on Sep 24th extra)
The Conference is aimed at helping the health and homeless community to
understand and embrace the opportunities afforded by the DoH Joint
Commissioning Framework for Health & Wellbeing, published in March 07.
Additionally, the Conference aims to update practitioners on approaches to
the clinical challenges facing them as they care for homeless and
insecurely-housed people in the current environment.
Details, and a registration form, can be found at
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/events/homeless/
<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/events/homeless/> .
Short courses:
Randomised Controlled Trials: 5-day course
Dates: 24, 26, 28th Sept and 3-4th Oct 07
Venue: Oxford University
Course Director: Mike Clarke, Director of the UK Cochrane Centre
The course aims to help participants with the practicalities of conducting
randomised trials. This includes the processes for resourcing the trial,
recruiting and randomising participants, maintaining the trial's momentum,
and analysing and reporting it.
Details, and an application form, can be found at
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/RCT/
<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/RCT/> .
This course fills up very quickly. If you can't make the dates, the course
may run again in summer 2008 - please email [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> to register your interest.
Patient Based Evidence: blended-learning course
Dates: 24th Sept to 5th Oct 2007 (online
component) plus 15-18th October 2007 (face-to-face component)
Venue: Online and Oxford University
Course Director: Sophie Staniszewska.
This course is for anyone who wishes to develop an understanding of
patient-based evidence and patient reported outcome measurement,
particularly in relation to health-related quality of life and patient
satisfaction. Those could include clinicians, managers, researchers, policy
makers, individuals from voluntary organisations and patient groups, and
those individuals within national agencies leading programmes of work
related to patient involvement and patient evidence.
Full details, and an application form, see
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/PBE/
<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/PBE/> .
Ethics in Health Care: 5-day course
Dates: 25, 28th Sep and 2, 5, 12th Oct 2007
Venue: Oxford University
Course Director: Donald Hill, Ethics and Communication in Health
(Ethox)
The syllabus covers aspects of ethical theory and relates them to
health-care and to specific topics within that, such as consent, autonomy,
resource allocation, and issues at the beginning and end of life.
Full details and an application form can be found at
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/Ethics/
<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/Ethics/
> .
Qualitative Research Methods: 5-day course
Dates: 1, 3, 5, 9, 11 October 2007
Venue: Oxford University
Course Director: Susie Page
There is increasing recognition that the use of evidence to improve health
care is influenced by a wide range of social factors. The quality of
communication between clinician and patient, and the patient's understanding
of treatment options can influence the choice of treatment. This course
explores the ways in which research projects can be designed to explore
these issues.
Details, and an application form, can be found at
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/QRM/
<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/QRM/> .
Further Practical Statistics: 5-day course
Dates: 8, 10, 15 17, 19 Oct 07
Venue: Oxford University
Course Director: Bernie Higgins
This course is specifically designed for health care professionals and
researchers who wish to build on their existing statistical expertise.
Details, and an application form, can be found at
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/FPS/
<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/FPS/>
Systematic Reviews: 5-day course
Dates: 9-10th, 12, 16, 18th October 2007
Venue: Oxford University
Course Director: Mike Clarke, Director of the UK Cochrane Centre
This course focuses on the practice, more than the theory, of systematic
reviews. It tackles practical issues that are often encountered in such
research. It is an extremely popular course and places are very limited.
The course will run several times in 2008 so if you can't make the above
dates, please email [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> to register your interest on a future
course.
Details, and an application form, can be found at
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/SR
<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/SR/date
s.asp> .
Statistics for Health Researchers: 10-week part-time online course
Dates: Jan 2008. Will be repeated May 2008
Venue: Online
Course Director: Marialena Trivella
This online statistics course is designed for busy health and social care
professionals who need to understand the basics of health statistics without
becoming statisticians.
See
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/Onlinestatistic
s/
<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/Onlines
tatistics/> . You can email [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> to register your interest and be kept
informed when dates are decided.
Oxford-Bath Clinical ENT: 5-day course
Dates: 3-7th March 2008
Venue: Oxford University
Course Tutors: Richard Cantor and Martin Burton
This course teaches ENT trainees how to integrate their knowledge into
day-to-day clinical practice. It also highlights areas of controversy,
reviews relevant research evidence, and discusses how to use evidence to
make decisions.
Details can be found at
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/ENT/
<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/ENT/> .
Please make a note of the dates in your diaries. You can email
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> to register
your interest and be kept informed.
Evidence-Based Dentistry: 5-day course
Dates: 12-16th May 2008
Venue: Oxford University
Course Director: Derek Richards, Consultant in Dental Public
Health, NHS Forth Valley
The evidence-based approach provides a coherent approach to the information
needs of clinicians. This course has been developed for dentists and other
oral health care professionals who either want an introduction to
evidence-based dentistry or who wish to further their understanding of the
evidence-based approach.
Details can be found at
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/EBD/
<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/EBD/> .
Please make a note of the dates in your diaries. You can email
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> to register
your interest and be kept informed.
Postgraduate qualifications:
NEW! Masters in Experimental Therapeutics: part-time, modular, two-year
course
Date: Launching in Oct 2007
Venue: Oxford University
Modules will include:
* Structures of Clinical Trials and Experimental Therapeutics
* The Basic Processes of Drug Therapy: Pharmacokinetics
* The Basic Processes of Drug Therapy: Pharmacodynamics & the
Principles of Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Modelling
* Adverse Drug Reactions, Drug Interactions, and Pharmacovigilance
* How to do Research on Therapeutic Interventions (including Clinical
Trials)
* Rational Prescribing
* and others.
Modules can be taken as 5-day standalone courses if you wish.
Full details and an application form for the Masters, or for any of the
standalone courses, can be found at
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/expther/
<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/expther/> .
You can download an Experimental Therapeutics brochure at
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/files/07_ET_Brochure.pdf
<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/files/07_ET_Brochure.pdf> .
Applications for this Masters must be received well before July 27th 2007.
Please email your interest NOW to [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> , then view the application details at
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/expther/application.asp
<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/expther/application.a
sp> .
NEW! Postgraduate Certificate in the Provision of Health Care to People
Experiencing Homelessness:
a part-time, modular, blended learning course
Dates: launches September 2007
Venue: Oxford University and online
Modules will include:
* Concepts in Health Care for Homeless People
* Organizational Issues related to the Provision of Services
* Case Studies in Homeless Issues
* Seminar on Health Care for Homeless People
Full details and an application form for the Postgraduate Certificate can be
found at www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/peh/default.asp
<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/peh/default.asp> .
Applications must be received well before July 27th 2007. Please email your
interest NOW to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
, then view the application details at
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/peh/application.asp
<http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/peh/application.asp>
. Most of the modules can be taken as stand-alone courses.
Best wishes,
Erin Snape
Health Sciences
Course Administrator
Continuing Professional Development Centre
University of Oxford
Suite 1 Littlegate House
16/17 St. Ebbes Street
Oxford OX1 1PT
Tel: (+44) 01865 286941
Fax: (+44) 01865 286934
Email: [log in to unmask]
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd
