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The novel TMAT programme attracts the brightest clinically active candidates at several levels of seniority, ranging from MB PhD students to clinical lecturers, some wishing to develop translational skills in their chosen specialty, others not yet differentiated who may become future leaders and teachers of TMAT. Each trainee will have a customised programme. Part of this will be a bespoke, modular MPhil modelled on the well-known small-group lectures and supervisions of the Cambridge final year undergraduate courses. However the centrepiece for most candidates will be a PhD including formal teaching in a wide range of translational and pharmacological skills, and a project which takes proof-of-concept studies in cell or animal systems forward to proof-of-concept studies in humans. We have assembled an outstanding faculty of PhD supervisors spanning a wide choice of skills and experience in basic and clinical science. All trainees will have the opportunity for hands-on exposure to the design and conduct of experimental medicine studies investigating the therapeutic potential of new drugs in collaboration with our industrial partner GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
Interaction of Trainees as a Cohort
There will be an annual Symposium organised by the Clinical Academic Training Office (CATO) where each trainee will present their work and future plans to a wide breadth of consortium members. Regular social events and the mentoring group will all facilitate the interaction of the fellows on this programme as a cohort. All PhD Students will be members of the Graduate School for Biological Sciences and Medicine. The school provides support for all graduate students, organising generic teaching and fostering meetings between non-clinical and clinical graduate students and those appointed to posts on the integrated academic pathway. It provides advice on best practice for supervisors and advisors, access to an experts directory (helping to broaden the pool of advice available to graduate students) and details of the personal progress log that has to be completed by all graduate students.
Structure of Clinical Academic Training
- Supporting Information
- CATO
- Clinical Pharmacology Unit
- School of Clinical Medicine
- Medschl Webmail
- Medical Library
- Department of Medicine