Course details
This Masters in Medicine course is offered to medical graduates in training who wish to develop their research skills, broaden their research interests, and develop advanced knowledge in selected areas of clinical and scientific practice. The course syllabus and curriculum have been developed following consultation with medical trainees in Ireland in order to ensure that the course fulfills their needs in terms of higher medical training at national and international level. The aim of the course is to provide advanced training in key domains of excellence relevant to modern medical practice for all students while also providing specialist knowledge relevant to their individual chosen career pathways.
Students will be required to complete twelve taught modules (5 ECTS each) as follows:
Six core modules:
- Professional and Ethical Practice of Medicine,
- Research Skills I,
- Research Skills II,
- Health Services Management,
- Health Informatics,
- Patient Safety for Clinical Specialists.
Six optional modules from either Molecular and Translational Medicine (strand A):
- Cellular Biology and Cell signalling Mechanisms,
- Introduction to Genetics and Molecular Biology,
- Molecular oncology,
- Molecular Mechanisms of Human disease I and II, and
- laboratory skills for clinical specialists
- Clinical skills for clinical specialists
or Population Health and Health Implementation (Strand B):
- Public Health for Clinical Specialists,
- Global Health for Clinical Specialists,
- Teaching and Learning for Clinical Specialists,
- Health Economics
- Pharmacoepidemiology, and Drug Safety
- Clinical skills for clinical specialists
- Developing and prescribing medicines for special populations.
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About Trinity College Dublin
Trinity is recognised as one of the world's leading research-intensive universities and its research continues to address issues of global societal and economic importance. The University's research strategy is based on developing multidisciplinary areas in which the College has the critical mass of world-class researchers needed to deliver research of global consequence.
Among the priority research themes being addressed by Trinity researchers are ageing, nanoscience and materials, telecommunications, neuroscience, human identity, cancer, international integration, arts practice, and the inclusive society. These are topics that not only address issues of immediate and long-term concern to society but offer opportunities for future economic development. The University's commitment to a research-led education means that our students are exposed to leaders in their discipline, to the latest knowledge and ideas, and to an education that emphasises analytical skills and creative thinking, and gives students an opportunity to develop a broad range of skills by engaging in personal research.
This excellence in research underpins Trinity's Innovation and Entrepreneurship strategy. Research is central to the generation of the new disruptive ideas that will underpin future sustainable businesses. The knowledge created by Trinity is critical for the economic development of Ireland as it is for the education on offer to our students.
Trinity's research themes are supported by a set of research institutes that provide the infrastructure needed to support multi-disciplinary research as well as engagement with enterprise and social partners working in partnership with Trinity's twenty-four schools.
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