Our Trauma Sciences programmes will give you a thorough grounding in the principles underlying the disease of trauma.
You will learn how to understand the sequence of changes within the cells of the body caused by severe injury, and how this can lead to critical and disabling illness. You will also learn how to improve patients’ survival, outcomes and recovery while developing a broad, critical understanding of the up-to-date science and practice of trauma care.
It is open to you if you work clinically within major Trauma, both in the UK and Internationally, and particularly if you are seeking to expand your academic and professional portfolio while making a genuine contribution to the field of Trauma. We understand your desire to update your knowledge of trauma and critically ill patients while balancing this with your other commitments. Therefore, you will be able to study part-time, online from anywhere in the world.
The MSc is a collaboration between the Barts Centre for Trauma Sciences (C4TS) and the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary University of London. C4TS is a world-leading centre of excellence for translational trauma research with partnerships and connections to The Royal London Hospital Major Trauma Centre, the Pan London Major Trauma System and other networks. You will learn from some of the UK’s leading trauma experts from these institutions. 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.
If you choose to study on the Military and Humanitarian version of the course, you will also learn the key aspects and develop an understanding of the up-to-date science and practice of military and humanitarian trauma care. The module will give you a broad and critical understanding of developments in trauma care in military and disaster settings and will cover triage, pre-hospital care, mass casualty management and surge capacity, ballistics, chemical and biological trauma. The latest techniques learnt by the military will be proposed and critically evaluated. Opportunities for the training of military trauma care specialists are extremely limited, and many defence agencies rely on the deployment situation as the primary training for their personnel. Taking this module along with the rest of the Trauma Sciences programme will help you to develop the skills needed in situations of dire emergency and global disaster.
Our students often say that the favourite part of the programme is the chance to visit London and experience hands-on training at an optional summer school. The residential summer school takes place at the end of the first year and will give you simulated scenario training to complement your learning. You will gain practical knowledge and experience of decision-making so you can deliver safe, professional core clinical functions in the management of seriously injured patients. You will concentrate on group projects, interactive workshops and training in subspecialty skills and simulation at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Barts Health Academy and The Royal London Hospital Major Trauma Centre.
In your second year of study, you will write a dissertation on a specific area of knowledge, or you may undertake original research. You will be able to choose a topic within your specialism and career aspirations, and will be supervised by and receive guidance from our hugely experienced supervisory academic team. Examples of published works from the course include 'Delivering trauma mastery with an international trauma masters', An Exploratory Analysis of the Geographical Distribution of Trauma Incidents in Shenzhen, China', and 'Beliefs and expectations of rural hospital practitioners towards a developing trauma system: A qualitative case study'.