The Department of Public Health and Primary Care provides excellent training and educational programmes in biostatistics, epidemiology, public health and primary care, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including training of Academic Clinical Fellows.
Currently, there are approximately 65 doctoral students and around 60 Masters students. Many students in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care are supported by prestigious awards, such as studentships from the MRC, BHF, CRUK, Gates-Cambridge Trust, NIH-Cambridge Fellowships, and GSK.
Education and Training is of key strategic importance to the Department of Public Health and Primary Care and the Department's current strategic goals for 2024-2027 are to:
- Attract, inspire, and support students from diverse backgrounds to become future researchers, academic healthcare professionals, and clinicians in the field of population health sciences and related disciplines.
- Maintain our role in the training and development of current and future generations of doctors and other healthcare professionals through our teaching within the undergraduate medical courses and within postgraduate education programmes.
- Promote a culture in which education and training is valued at all levels and by all members of the Department and in which members of the Department are encouraged and supported to contribute positively to education and training and are given opportunities to develop as educators.
- Enhance our systems and operational processes to support us to achieve the highest standards of delivery and ensure that our education and training activities are sustainable looking into the future.
- Operate as a model of excellence in teaching and training and by so doing positively impact on generations of clinicians and researchers and influence education, teaching, and training practice more widely.
For further details of the Department of Public Health and Primary care Education and Training Strategy 2024-2027, please click here.
The Department of Public Health and Primary Care's clinical academic training focus is on General Practice and Palliative Medicine, both of which we are the lead Department in Cambridge Academic training for.
Together with the MRC Epidemiology Unit we also support training for public health clinicians and we additionally host academic trainees in other disciplines, including those in Diabetes and Endocrinology, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, and Medical Education. For further information on Clinical Academic Training within the Department, please click here.