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« Back to NewsDeveloping the next generation of global leaders in healthcare - teaching now underway across NDPCHS!
28 October 2024
Teaching for the new academic year is well underway across the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences on our Master's and DPhil courses, as well as for the undergraduate curriculum. Here we bring a round-up of the welcome and induction activities taking place for our programmes.
Oxford honours Dr Martin Lawrence as scholarship applications open
11 October 2024
Oxford Primary Care Undergraduate Teaching Team pays tribute to Martin Lawrence's legacy, visiting his family as applications for the scholarship in his name commence.
Meeting Minds 2024
27 September 2024
For over a decade, The University of Oxford's Alumni Weekend, Meeting Minds, has been bringing alumni back from all corners of the globe to inspire, entertain and delight through lectures, tours and music. This year Meeting Minds was held on the weekend of 20-22 September, in many venues across Oxford.
NDPCHS postgraduate programmes open for application for 2025
9 September 2024
We are now inviting applications for all of our postgraduate programmes based within the department for 2025.
Congratulations to Hackathon Prize winners: Highlights from Centre for Digital Transformation of Health workshop
10 July 2024
Congratulations to our students who participated in the Hackathon Prize competition as part of a workshop for the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health. DPhil student Gina Wren's team came in first-place and MSc in Applied Digital Health student Anton Elepaño's team took second-place.
Exciting Opportunity: MEdIC's Medical Education Masterclass Series 2024
4 July 2024
Medical Education Masterclass Series 2024: Open for Registration! Imperial College London's Medical Education Innovation and Research Centre (MEdIC) is offering its annual medical education masterclass series.
Junaid Hameed and Clare Hornby win Best Student Presentation Award at the British Journal of General Practice (BJGP) Research and Publishing Conference
1 July 2024
Congratulations to students Junaid Hameed and Clare Hornby on their Best Student Presentation Award! Junaid and Clare are final-year medical students (now about to graduate) in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. They were taking part in a project supervised by Dr Sharon Dixon. Read Junaid and Clare's reflections on their experience attending the conference and receiving the award below.
Virginia Zarama awarded this year’s Gillian Nicholls Prize
28 February 2024
Virginia Zarama is the recipient of this year's Kellogg College Gillian Nicholls Prize for her MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care dissertation.
Undergraduate Pathways event – a unique opportunity to explore career opportunities in primary healthcare
2 January 2024
The Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences hosts its second career pathways event for undergraduate and graduate medical students.
Congratulations to our 2023 MSc EBHC prize winners for outstanding dissertations
23 February 2023
We are delighted to congratulate three of our MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care students, Ho-ming Lee, Kasper Pihl and Skanda Rajasundaram, on receiving the 2023 EBHC Dissertation Prize for outstanding dissertations.
Congratulations to FHS student, Harrison France, on receiving 1st place in IUPHAR Student Research Poster Competition 2022
22 April 2022
Final Honours student, Harrison France, from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Science and the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, has recently been awarded 1st place in the the IUPHAR (International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology) Student Research Poster Competition 2022 by the British Pharmacological Society, for his research on preventable deaths involving medicines.
First-ever Evidence-Based Health Care Summer School to take place this summer
5 April 2022
Led by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, and jointly run by the Department for Continuing Education, this summer school invites EBHC students, supervisors, consumers, and leading evidence-based experts into the surroundings of Kellogg College, University of Oxford. 4-20 July. Spanning three weeks this unique experience offers: EBHC modules; non-accredited short courses; a selection of workshops and EBMLive 2022.
MSc EBHC students awarded EBHC Dissertation Prize for outstanding Dissertation
16 September 2021
Congratulations to Michael Tringale, who recently completed the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care, and Claire Duddy, who recently completed the MSc in EBHC Systematic Reviews, as they are both awarded this year's EBHC Dissertation Prize for outstanding dissertation.
DPhil alumna awarded Mildred Blaxter Fellowship for medical sociology research
17 December 2020
Congratulations to Dr Caitlin Pilbeam, a medical anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher in the Department, who has been awarded the Mildred Blaxter Fellowship from the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness.
Primary Care Health Sciences Scholars Programme launches
20 November 2020
The Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences’ first scholarship programme launches to support students wishing to pursue either the DPhil in Primary Health Care or DPhil in Translational Health Sciences.
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