Postgraduate Diploma (flexible) in Genomic Medicine

The overall educational aims of the programme are to:

• provide professionally relevant teaching and learning informed by research in an integrated clinical and research environment;
• develop and create a cohort of doctors and other professionals allied to medicine able to pursue and develop their roles in the rapidly-changing and challenging environment of genomic medicine;
• prepare healthcare professionals for the adoption of genomic technologies and the increasing use of genomic information as part of the diagnostic and treatment pathway;
• develop researchers competent in the use of genomic technologies for biomedical research;
• develop a cohort of health care professionals with the ability and confidence to lead service improvement for safe and high quality patient care;
• develop a cohort of health care professionals allied to medicine with an understanding of research methodologies and clinical opportunities relevant to genomic medicine;
• encourage a commitment to intellectual challenge and evidence-based clinical practice informed by the latest conceptual and theoretical knowledge of genomic medicine;
• develop students' intellectual, practical and transferable skills related to genomic medicine;
• encourage critical thinking related to genomic medicine;
• Prepare students for undertaking research degrees (PhD) in genomic medicine-related research fields;
• Provide students from the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other industries with an understanding of the relevance of advances in genomics for current and future health care.

Learning Outcomes

The over-arching learning outcomes are:

Knowledge and understanding

• To enhance the students’ knowledge and critical understanding of recent developments in genomic medicine relevant to their present and future roles.
• To develop students’ knowledge and understanding of genomic medicine informed by research in a rapidly-changing integrated clinical and research environment.
• To enable deployment of new knowledge in their clinical practice, and to have a positive personal impact on the work of others in their clinical team and wider service.
• To develop an understanding of genomic technologies and to be able to use genomic information as part of the diagnostic and treatment pathway.
• To develop students’ knowledge so that they have the confidence to lead service improvement for safe and high quality patient care.
• To update and extend students’ understanding of research methodologies and clinical opportunities.
• To demonstrate knowledge, abilities and skills to engage in focused, professionally-relevant, independent learning.

Skills and other attributes

• The skills necessary to locate, read, interpret and analyse primary and secondary sources of material enabling the development of a conceptual and theoretical understanding of recent developments in genomic medicine.
• Skills to evaluate current scholarship and research critically and to place this knowledge within the context of their own situation and practice as clinical leaders.

This course is only open to those who have successfully completed and passed the Postgraduate Certificate in Genomic Medicine at ICE.

An Upper Second Class Honours Degree is the expected Academic standard.

Funding may be available from Health Education England for NHS employees wishing to apply for this course. Please see the HEE website for further information and potential funding opportunities.

Your application must include:

• Copies of relevant qualification certificates and transcripts
• Relevant professional qualifications or memberships with documentary evidence Language proficiency (if required)
• Contact details of two referees who will be contacted on your behalf Evidence of funding (if applicable)
• Employer Support Letter CV
• Please visit the course page on the ICE website for more information on application deadline and selection process.