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Oxford's Medical School implement Practicum Script, an innovative tool to improve clinical reasoning skills
General
9 January 2020
Oxford's Medical School are one of the first faculties to implement Practicum Script in the undergraduate level. The multi-centre study (also including Imperial College London) aims to investigate the effectiveness of Practicum Script as a standardised educational resource integrated into the medical school curriculum to enhance clinical reasoning and problem-solving skills among students in clinical rotations. The experiment will consist of the simulation of 20 real clinical Internal Medicine cases during the academic year and the participation includes a handful of other medical schools in the UK. It’s envisaged more than 2000 senior medical students from 25 top medical schools will benefit from this programme.
Three minute thesis competition launched - deadline 3 February
8 January 2020
3 Minutes, 1 Slide…..Your Thesis! An 80,000 word thesis would take 9 hours to present; how about in just 3 minutes with the aid of a single slide? Dphil students are invited to apply to take part. Training and prizes are available!
Biomarker predicts which patients with heart failure have a higher risk of dying
General Research
8 January 2020
UCLA researchers in collaboration with Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics researchers have identified a biomarker for increased risk of early mortality in patients with heart failure. Associate Professor Neil Herring is senior author.
Professor Vincenzo Cerundolo FRS 1959-2020
General
8 January 2020
It is with profound sadness that we learnt of the death of Professor Vincenzo Cerundolo FRS.
IDRM ground-breaking – work gets underway!
General
8 January 2020
Work will shortly be underway on the new IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, home to the new Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine at Old Road Campus. The formal ground-breaking ceremony, which took place towards the end of last year, was organised by the Medical Sciences Development team in collaboration with the Department of Paediatrics.
Oxford Personalised Medicine Society welcoming new members
6 January 2020
Mobile Malaria Project team begin their journey
Research
1 April 2019
The Mobile Malaria Project team, led by Dr George Busby from University of Oxford, will travel over 6,300km across Namibia, Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya to investigate the challenges facing those on the front line of malaria control in Africa – where 90 per cent of the world’s cases occur.
Vaccine developed to treat osteoarthritic pain
General Research
13 March 2019
Researchers have developed a vaccine that blocks the effects of the main cause of pain in osteoarthritis (OA) - nerve growth factor (NGF) – in mice.
£4.5 million award for clinical research consortium to tackle the global threat of epidemic infectious diseases
Awards and Appointments General
8 February 2019
The International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infections Consortium (ISARIC) has been awarded £4.5 million to accelerate clinical research to prevent illness and deaths from epidemic infectious diseases.
Scientists catch heartbeat ‘molecular switch’ in action
General Research
8 February 2019
Oxford University Radcliffe Department of Medicine researchers have developed a new method that uses a protein originally found in marine corals to visualise the flow of calcium that makes the heart beat.
10-Year Partnership with GenesisCare
General Innovation Research
7 February 2019
GenesisCare and the University of Oxford establish innovative 10-year research partnership to improve diagnosis and care for people with cancer.
Ten-year outcomes of cardiac surgery trial published
General Research
6 February 2019
The ten-year outcomes of the Arterial Revascularisation Trial (ART), conducted by the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS), have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
New grant from Cancer Research UK will help develop early detection methods for Oesophageal cancer
Awards and Appointments Research
6 February 2019
Researchers from Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics and Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine have been awarded a Cancer Research UK Primer grant of £100,000 to study biomarkers for non-invasive early detection of oesophageal adencarcinoma.
People with chronic conditions are missing out on health management benefits of physical activity
General Research
5 February 2019
A study of over 96,000 UK men and women, of average age 64.5 years, has found that those with chronic conditions are spending considerably less time on physical activity than their healthy peers, so are missing out on its health management benefits.
BDI to host EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Health Data Science
Awards and Appointments Research
5 February 2019
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has funded a new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Health Data Science at the University of Oxford. The Centre will be located within the Big Data Institute, and will play a leading role in training the next generation of health data scientists.
Fundamental advances in vascular development knowledge
Research
4 February 2019
Research carried out by the Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics represents advances in vascular development knowledge.
MRI scans reveal how brain protects memories
Research
4 February 2019
Research by the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging has identified two distinct parts of the human brain - the neocortex and the hippocampus (a part of the brain involved in higher-order brain functions) - which protect our memories from interfering with one another.
Natural Killer cells used to treat chronic pain by removing damaged nerves after injury
Research
4 February 2019
An international collaboration of scientists, led by Alexander Davies and Simon Rinaldi from the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, has found that specialised cells within the body’s immune system - Natural Killer cells - play a significant role in removing damaged nerve fibres.
Oxford University signs universal flu vaccine development deal with US startup BWV
Innovation Research
4 February 2019
Oxford University, through its innovation arm Oxford University Innovation (OUI), has entered into an option agreement for a universal influenza vaccine with US-based startup Blue Water Vaccines (BWV), which is raising $15m to support development of the flu shot.