Medicine and Surgery Newcastle University

Overview

Within this Medicine and Surgery MPhil, PhD, MD programme from Newcastle University you'll work in one of our research institutes and have a dedicated supervisory team. This team includes a senior scientist and an academic clinician. The clinician treats patients as well as conducting research. This ensures your research centres around patient care.

We offer supervision for MPhil, PhD and MD in the following areas:

• anaesthesia
• care of the elderly
• child health
• critical care
• dermatology
• diabetes
• ENT (ear, nose and throat)
• liver
• musculoskeletal disease
• oncology
• ophthalmology
• neuroscience
• primary care
• psychiatry
• renal medicine/urology
• reproductive medicine
• respiratory and cardiac medicine
• transplantation

Each faculty offers a researcher development programme for its postgraduate research students. We have designed your programme to help you:

• perform better as a researcher
• boost your career prospects
• broaden your impact
• Through workshops and activities, it will build your transferable skills and increase your confidence.

You’ll cover:

• techniques for effective research
• methods for better collaborative working
• essential professional standards and requirements
• Your programme is flexible. You can adapt it to meet your changing needs as you progress through your doctorate.