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
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
and a registration form can be downloaded from www.conted.ox.ac.uk/CPD/healthsciences/courses/short_courses/QSR/register.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.
The 2nd
Date:
25th Sep 07
Venue:
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/.
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/.
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] 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/.
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/.
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/.
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/
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] 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.
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/Onlinestatistics/.
You can email [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/.
Please make a note of the dates in your diaries. You can email [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/.
Please make a note of the dates in your diaries. You can email [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/.
You can download an Experimental Therapeutics brochure
at 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], then view
the application details at www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/expther/application.asp.
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:
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.
Applications must
be received well before July 27th 2007. Please email your
interest NOW to [log in to unmask], then view
the application details at www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/healthsciences/courses/peh/application.asp.
Most of the modules can be taken as stand-alone
courses.
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:
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www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd