The online programme is delivered through weekly audiovisual material to demonstrate patient cases, best clinical practice and practical skills. It allows you round-the-clock access to teaching material and recordings.
Webinar teaching includes both lectures and online quizzes which are a great opportunity to engage with the teaching faculty. Online discussion forums allow you to share tricky cases with your fellow students all over the world. Our teaching staff meet with you in regular, interactive, small group tutorials to discuss the material and patient cases. The Clinical Days are delivered in real time so that you can engage directly with your academics and fellow students. The tutorials and Clinical Days are also recorded for your convenience.
Our online learning platform presents the information in a clear, succinct, and interactive way, and allows you round-the-clock access to teaching material and recordings so you can access it and learn in your own time. At the Blizard Institute, we have a dedicated team of e-learning support staff who continuously work to improve and update the online material so that you have the best student experience.
Online learning can sometimes seem daunting and an isolating experience for the learner, but we’ve combatted this by making sure that we have varied types of learning activities for you. Some will be self-study, others will be watching recorded videos and lectures. There are lots of patient cases and interactive sessions led by consultant dermatologists where you can ask your own questions and some small group teaching so you feel as if you are part of an online learning community. Our students are always delighted to tell us how much they felt part of a learning community as well as learning so many new skills for managing their patients in their practices.
COVID-19 has been a challenge for all of us all over the world, but the one thing which we are seeing is increasing and emerging use of technology. In this respect, there has never been a better time to study online.
The programme is hosted by the Blizard Institute, the largest institute of Queen Mary University of London's Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. Our research and education span broad areas of modern biomedicine, with particular expertise in cell biology, genomics, immunology, neuroscience, primary care, population health and trauma sciences.
Our research puts us among the top research institutions in the UK (REF 2014). We work closely with linked NHS hospital trusts which means that the School’s research and teaching is informed by an exceptionally wide-ranging and stimulating clinical environment. Queen Mary University of London is also part of the prestigious Russell Group - a body of leading UK universities dedicated to research and teaching excellence.