The Medical Sciences Skills Training Programme consists of over 80 half, one and three and a half day courses as well as lunchtime seminars run in the John Radcliffe, Churchill and South Parks Road. The divisional programme consistently receives positive feedback with over 80% of students who have attended a course recommending attending a course as a good use of their time. As a guide, the Research Councils recommend that graduate students spend 10 days a year on additional skills training.

DPhil students in the Medical Sciences Division may attend free of charge.

Students and their supervisors are strongly encouraged during their first term and throughout the course of their studies to spend time revisiting their individual training requirements, planning a training timetable and developing their CV. In addition, both supervisors and students are encouraged to use the facility within Graduate Supervision Reporting (GSR) to record training requirements which are then fed back to the MSD Skills Training — University of Oxford, Medical Sciences Division to follow up and offer advice regarding the availability of courses and events which would fulfill their training requirements.

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Basic and advanced research techniques
Bioinformatics
Project management
Managing your supervisor
Career development
Writing and presentations skills
Statistics and data analysis
Funding and grant writing
Ethics
Teaching skills
Personal development, team working and networking
Intellectual property
Preparation for academic practice
Research skills

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