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.
Being for beginners ONLINE
Tuesday, 14 June 2022 to Thursday, 30 June 2022, 4pm - 5pm
This course is for MSD postgraduate researchers and consists of six one-hour workshops that blend wellbeing ideas and practices with opportunities for self-reflection.
Large group and lecturing ONLINE
Tuesday, 21 June 2022 to Wednesday, 29 June 2022, 9.30am - 12.30pm
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.
OUCAGS careers event for Oxford clinical DPhil students – Developing a clinical academic career: experiences from the front-line, Tuesday, 3rd May, 12:00-14:30, online.
The event will comprise an overview of clinical academic paths, talks by postdoctoral academic doctors, careers surgeries and networking sessions. It will be a chance for delegates to find out about, and discuss with speakers and senior academics, concrete opportunities to develop their post-DPhil career and possible clinical academic career paths. More information available on the OUCAGS site. Register by 26th April (or, for careers surgeries, by 18th April).
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.