Health Professions Education PhD

University of Glasgow

The field of Health Professions Education is concerned with how we educate health professionals across the continuum of undergraduate and postgraduate training and lifelong clinical practice.

Overview

Doctoral study in Health Professions Education (HPE) builds upon the broad scholarly and practical experience in the theory, research, and practice from our MSc in HPE.

Our PhD/MD degree:

• will prepare graduates to be at the forefront of research, scholarship, leadership, teaching and assessment in the discipline of health professions education.
• is a higher research degree, that supports a focused piece of research building on the competencies found in the MSc in HPE.
• is suitable for those wishing to develop their skills as independent and thoughtful researchers in the field. This can enable graduates to lead on their own HPE research after graduation. And enable them to incorporate their work into their scholarly practice as educators.

Those who enter the programme will come from a variety of health professional backgrounds (including medicine, dentistry, nursing, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, podiatry, dietetics, optometry and more). Our learners may also have a background in education, biomedical sciences, psychology or linguistics.

Ideally, learners will also have completed a Masters’ degree in HPE, medical education or equivalent. This provides a strong foundation in the field and relevant research approaches (including theory and methodology). Therefore, we strongly recommend you consider the completion of our MSc in HPE before joining our PhD/MD.

Most supervisors are are based in the College of MVLS. Though we also encourage cross-disciplinary research and are able to draw on wider supervisory expertise relevant to you chosen area of interest.