The Department provides academic training opportunities for doctors, nurses, midwives and allied health professionals throughout all stages of the academic pathway.
This includes hosting doctors within the NIHR Integrated Academic Training (IAT) Programme, non-medical healthcare professionals within the NHS England/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic (ICA) Programme, and a range of locally and nationally funded internships and fellowships.
For clinical academic training, our focus is on General Practice and Palliative Medicine, for both of which we are the lead Department in Cambridge academic training. 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 all these posts we work closely with the School of Clinical Medicine Clinical Academic Training Office (CATO) and NHS England East of England (NHSE-EoE)).
For nurses, midwives and allied health professionals (NMAPs), we host research placements and fellowships for a range of health professionals and also play a central role in the leadership of local and regional academic training for NMAPs through the Professor of Nursing post which is based in the Department and part funded by Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH).
In all cases, trainees based in the Department benefit from individually tailored academic mentoring and supervision from senior academics to develop knowledge, understanding and skills in research methods. This includes practical experience of research, opportunities to conduct and publish well defined personal research projects, and support for applying for subsequent funding and pre-doctoral, doctoral and post-doctoral Fellowships.
The Department views the strength of these clinical academic pipelines as central to our mission, and a key contribution to the academic training across the region and the UK as a whole.