Teaching opportunities

The Oxford School of Public Health has a strong record of supporting medical undergraduate teaching. Opportunities for Public Health trainees to become involved in teaching include:

Academic attachment - Teaching Fellow Post

Attachments are available at Oxford University for the position of Teaching Fellow. This role includes supporting the clinical course in public health for Oxford undergraduate medical students.

For further information about the course and details of contacts for further enquiries, please click here.

Year 5 medical undergraduate teaching: Public Health Policy and Practice

This is the University of Oxford clinical course in public health “Public health policy and practice” teaching day. The introductory lecture is delivered by Oxfordshire PCT’s Assistant Director of Public Health or a nominated deputy. It is envisaged that this talk will give medical students an impression of what it is to be a public health practitioner in the NHS. Following the introductory talk by the PCT representative, the remainder of the day is facilitated by Oxford Deanery Specialist Registrars/Trainees in public health.

During the day, topics taught include health needs assessment and the ethics of resource allocation.

The afternoon consists of a panel presentation session. Each student is pre-assigned to one of three groups (MRSA screening; Helicobacter Pylori screening or abdominal aortic aneurysm screening) and is given the latest best available evidence for each of the aforementioned subjects. Using the reference frameworks of the UK National Screening Committee, as well as the South Central Priorities Support Unit ethical criteria, the task of each group is to formulate and present recommendations either for or against the implementation of the screening programme to which they have been assigned. The afternoon panel typically comprises Thames Valley Consultants/Directors of Public Health; and members of the South Central Priorities Support Unit and ETHOX.

Oxford Deanery Public Health trainees interested in becoming involved in this teaching and would like further information and/or “weblearn” access to the teaching materials, please contact the University of Oxford Department of Public Health undergraduate course administrator, Jane Foster: jane.foster@dphpc.ox.ac.uk

Other clinical course teaching opportunities

Critical appraisal - For further information, please contact Dr Alison Hill (Director, Supporting Public Health) - Alison.hill@SPH.nhs.uk or Alison.hill@sepho.nhs.uk

Outbreak teaching - For further information, please contact Dr Noel McCarthy (Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, Thames Valley HPU) - Noel.McCarthy@hpa.org.uk

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