The Department of Surgery and Cancer creates and delivers top quality education to inspire and unite the next generation of healthcare and health science leaders. Innovative research programmes tailored to developing world leading academics provide the much-needed healthcare solutions of the future. The Department delivers education over a number of platforms, contributing to the undergraduate medical curriculum and postgraduate taught programmes, which lead on to a variety of postgraduate research themes and a range of short courses.

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Postgraduate taught

We deliver a variety of postgraduate taught programmes. To reflect our research strengths these postgraduate programmes are designed to cover the range of translation research.

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Postgraduate research

Learn about the different research opportunities available within the Department of Surgery and Cancer. We offer both MD(Res) and PhD studentships in a wide variety of research areas and also run a graduate training programme.

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Undergraduate

The Department of Surgery and Cancer makes a major contribution to the undergraduate MBBS/BSc Medicine programme and the Biomedical Science programme. We lead Clinical Communication, Anatomy and Surgical Skills teaching which are integrated across all years of the course and run three intercalated BSc programmes.

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Short courses

The Department offers a number of short courses across the research divisions for internal and external delegates, including modular Masters programmes to training at our International Phenome training centre.

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For current students

Discover all Postgraduate opportunities available in the Faculty of Medicine
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