Cardiovascular Health and Disease (MRes)
The MRes Cardiovascular Health and Disease course promotes cardiovascular research within a unique multi-disciplinary training environment. This one-year full-time programme aims to equip students with broadly based biomedical research skills, but with an emphasis on application to cardiovascular science. For this reason, the course is research-intense, with up to 60% of the Masters based around independent research projects.
The programme is designed to provide the students with:
- A specialist knowledge of the principles of the cardiovascular system in health and disease with an emphasis on emerging technologies (taught lectures)
- Laboratory skills, research methodology and data analysis (two research projects)
- Critical analysis of scientific and medical literature (lit. review)
- Intellectual skills for understanding and interpreting research problems (tutorials)
- Communication of scientific data and concepts (oral presentations and written reports)
Delivery of the course is through a combination of lectures, seminars and independent research placements.
After the course, many students will continue their studies and register for a PhD. However, the programme is also of value to students wishing to progress in the pharmaceutical industry or in clinical research.
The MRes is also ideal for MBChB intercalating students who wish to undertake directly channelled research training in the field of cardiovascular medicine.
