Skills Training Courses: Career Development
Our career development courses provide insight and guidance on how to pursue your career options in the medical sciences. You can access other course categories on the Courses by topic page, and find supporting material on our Resources page. Can't find what you're looking for? Contact us.
Upcoming Career Development courses
Advancing Teaching and Learning Programme
Thursday, 08 October 2020 to Monday, 01 August 2022, 3pm - 6pm
Ready to develop your teaching skills at Oxford? The Advancing Teaching and Learning Programme leading to the award of Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, is now open to staff who meet the application criteria.
MSD PLTO
Wednesday, 30 June 2021 to Monday, 01 August 2022, 12am - 12pm
MSD’s Preparing for Learning and Teaching at Oxford (PLTO) has changed! You have the choice of attending specific teaching streams – ‘Taught Masters’ or ‘Tutorials’.
IDEA Engaging with Entrepreneurship
Monday, 11 October 2021 to Thursday, 30 June 2022, 9am - 9am
Sign up for IDEA’s Engaging with Entrepreneurship Programme to gain practical experience, learn transferable skills for the workplace, and access entrepreneurial training and funding opportunities.
So you want to be a Principal Investigator ONLINE
Friday, 25 February 2022, 10am to 5pm
This virtual MSD Skills workshop is for any member of MSD research staff thinking of becoming a PI. It will explore what it means to be a PI and the routes to becoming one.
Writing a thesis live session ONLINE
Tuesday, 01 March 2022, 2pm to 3.30pm
This is an optional live session for MSD DPhil students, complementing the online self-directed course ‘Writing a thesis’ in Canvas. This two-part course is designed for those in the final or second-to-last year of their DPhil who are preparing to write their thesis.
Large group and lecturing ONLINE
Monday, 07 March 2022 to Friday, 18 March 2022, 9.30am - 9.30am
This live online workshop delivered in four separate three-hour sessions and is suitable for MSD postgraduate research students and early career researchers looking to teach and wanting to learn the principles and practices of effective lecturing and group sessions.
OTHER Career Development Courses
This section lists related courses run elsewhere in the University, and our other career development courses running in other terms.
Places available on Graduate School Training programme courses run by the Department for Continuing Education. Please check details and availability using this link.
Visit IT Learning Centre's LinkedIn Learning (previously known as Lynda.com) for a huge range of online video-based courses. It is available to use for free for all University members who have Single Sign On credentials.