Training in health services in sheffield

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Project objective

ScHARR is one of the 4 schools in the University of Sheffield's Faculty of Medicine, and is a significant university-based concentration of health related research resources in the NHS Trent region and one of the most important is the UK. The Marie Curie Fellowship programme will offer training in health related skills, including public health, epidemiology, health economics, medical statistics, management sciences, research into violence and conflict, health policy and management and information science. Fellows will also have access to a wide range of well-established Research Training Programme courses, including data collection, observational techniques and qualitative and quantitative analysis, as well as an introduction to academic writing for publications and the development of research protocols. Both six month and twelve-month fellows will be required to complete a portfolio during their training period. At the begining of their training they will agree, with their mentor, a number of objectives, and the training programme they select will help them to achieve those objectives. During their training period they will be attached to at least 1 major research project running in ScHARR, and the portfolio will include a report on how their research in their own institution relates to the research in which they become involved in ScHARR.In order to achieve their objectives, they will be able to choose a selection of the following:- course(s) from the Trent Institute for Health Services Research- course(s) from the University's Research Training Programme (RTP)- attendance at ScHARR's seminar programme running at the time of their training- co-authorship of (or contributed authorship to) at least 1 academic paper- attendance at research conferences held in ScHARR- attendance at the Training of Supervisor" courses in ScHARR- literature review for skills in critical appraisal, with a view to producing joint papers- attendance at "Training for Trainers" course run by the University of Sheffield, in order to gain teaching skills- delivery of at least one departmental seminar- training sessions in IT skills ScHARR adheres to the University of Sheffield's policy on equal opportunities."

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• UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · SHEFFIELDCoordinatorUnited Kingdom

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